"They're little wooden sculptures," Maren told me over Zoom, referencing the two floating shelves in her backdrop, each lined end-to-end with their wooden Dansk pepper mills—a collection undoubtedly worth thousands.
"Out of context, you have no idea what tip of what iceberg you're seeing," Alex said, also referring to the pepper mills.
"I had no idea what it was," he said, "It was incredibly elegant, but had no clear function." A conversation with a salesperson brought some clarity.
The salespeople were pretty amused, Alex continued, "They were like: 'You guys are Americans. We don't really have these here.'"
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