The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome anything, that is, except books that are actually read.In the first five months of this year sales of consumer e-books in America overtook those from adult hardback books.
Waste money you can afford to waste – on chocolate or flowers or tchotchkes or even books, God save us, to clutter up your lovely home.
At the other end, what previous generations would call a "good room", an immaculate parlour – albeit one accessed via a cabinet chock-full of Brit and MTV Awards, and another cabinet spilling over with smiley-faced tchotchkes.
For anyone who still thinks of museums as places to view valuable works of art, you should know that they are also outlets for tchotchkes that are rich in pedigree and provenance.
She draws inspiration, she says, from the fabrics and pictures and tchotchkes she collects, as well as, though to a lesser degree, from books that forecast color trends in fashion.
The tchotchkes give her instructions on how to help people — but the instructions are often cryptic or counterintuitive and lead to trouble.
She keeps at it all night, smoking and snorting curios and tchotchkes, mainlining fair-trade coffee, and huffing washi tape.
At nearly thirteen thousand words, it's roomy enough to accommodate some favorite ideological tchotchkes.
The works, shown in editions of three, at galleries in as many cities, are large painted porcelain casts and wood carvings, executed by expert artisans, of tchotchkes that include the Michael Jackson piece, a simpering Cabbage Patch doll, and a saccharine John the Baptist clutching a cross, a pig, and a penguin.
The academic complaint, of course, is not that this ethnographic gaze is necessarily disrespectful; it's that looking at all treats fellow human beings as tchotchkes in the shopwindow of the world, there to be seen.
"She loved gardens and flowers, and she had a collection of all kinds of — I guess you would have to call them tchotchkes, like Delft china.
