That there is the Blu Dot Dodu bed, a $1,599 felt bed with French seams that I really frickin’ love. A few months ago I decided to email Blu Dot to say, Pretty please keep me in mind should one of these beds happen to fall off a truck and need to be discretely sold on the cheap. Their customer service specialist Joanna very nicely wrote back with a list of local retailers who may order, and (fingers crossed) drop, and need to get rid of such a bed. Cool.
Then I got their new catalog, and this scruffalufagus (in my bed) has a fascinating tattoo across his chest. Matthew and I pieced together the lettering from his various open robe shots and came up with “HOW MUCH A… CAN YOU TAKE?” What’s the A? Art or ass or analogy were my guesses, with money on art. Check it out:
How to know? Well, why not email my new friend Joanna? Here’s what she said:
Hello Carissa.
Thanks for your email and interest in Blu Dot!
You and your boyfriend are correct; the gentleman’s tattoo does say “How Much Art Can You Take?” Good detective work!
Feel free to contact is with any further questions or to place that Dodu Bed order!
Kind Regards,
Joanna
Ok, so the Blu Dot people may think I’m stalking them (they’re from Minnesota, and probably glad for it), but they get an A++ for customer service.
Case closed. Sign up for their catalog.
I bet his name is Art.
A felt bed would soon be a cat hair bed!
i love that you cropped out his ladyfriend, har har!
ART as his name! Whoa. I hadn’t considered that.
It’s a reference to the song “How much art can you take?” by the punk band The Kids Will Have Their Say. By the looks of it the model’s Paddy Costello, the bass player and singer from the punk band Dillinger Four, the fact that he’s modelling designer beds has blow my mind.
Correction: by the punk band SS Decontrol.
Thank you!