What do you suppose is your most valuable item?  

tynellbuyer, you got me all wrong
which is not much of a surprise. In another thread, the discussion is what's your latest bargain find, this is simply an alternative to it...what have you found over the years that turns out to be of great and surprising value?
Why on earth does this thread get your dander up? Another surprise: I meant nothing to get you upset about. Take a chill pill....or perhaps 4.

Oh Barry
and you wonder why you end up in hot water all the time. Tact, my dear, you are in dire need of it.

Barry
Still gots love for you.
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Value
I was ready to pile on about the crassness of the title, but it looks like Barry's pretty bruised already.
I considered speaking up on this idea of value several days ago when another thread discussed worries about holiday guests who don't have the same reverence for our possessions. Will my guests leave rings on my credenza. Will they stain my upholstery?
Are we using design to enhance our lives, or are we curating personal museums? Or worse, do we use it (as this the title of this thread might suggest) as currency... a means to accrue monetary value.
The great irony is that so much of modern design was created in an effort cast off formality. Even the names of many modern collections (Informal, Casual, Leisure) told us that these weren't precious objects. They were beautiful designs we could live with and enjoy every day. What a shame to lose the intended value of these objects because they also have a market value.

I meant it
to ask what is your most rare treasure...nothing more.
Why oh why are some of you so quick to jump down someone's throat?

if it wasn't so valuable?
If good design was so valuable, hence unique, every dickhead would own one
Good question
My ball chair, here in Australia they command upward of 10k

Dandylion
I wouldn't give her up for anything.

You wouldn't even trade her...
You wouldn't even trade her for Bertrand?

I would trade anything for...
I would trade anything for Bertrand.
i think it's funny how several people will say something along the lines of "talking monetary value is so rude/gross/whatever." But will punctuate by saying that they happen to have pieces in the XXX figure range.
Was VinnyV kidding?
"I possess numerous pieces appraised at sums in the seven figure range--some, let's just say, considerably higher."
What do you own that's so damn expensive? Hans Wegner's intact skeleton?

Brent
I have that same Saarinen chair. And so do many thousands of people. In a good way. What a successful design. It's among the most comfortable chairs. It's handsome. It's easily found/reupholstered if damaged. It's a chair to be enjoyed. It works at dining height, but is comfy enough as a side chair in a living room. Very versatile. The more I go on, the more I like Saarinen's over his friend, Charles' designs

not the chair, its the cat
i think the cat is not for sale! the chair is just decoration.

Crazy people...
you name your chairs!?
kidding
(Barry once again misunderstood. I knew what he meant but
it was hard to not bite.)

I own many leatherbound books...
And my apartment smells of rich maHOGany.

any association numbers
on that maHOGany ?

yes,
I was trying to make a satirical point (neither of the two claims are true) about a certain bourgeois attitude about value, the sort embodied in the Visa ads where it always turns out to be people with plenty of money to spend who really know what's "priceless."