Trompe l'oeil

It looks like a typical aluminum chair and yet...it costs $2,500...how can this be possible? Well, apparently you make the seat from leather instead of nylon and add some hardwood armrests. Once you've done this you have a (and I quote) "a limited edition redefinition of a soon to be extinct icon".

Now, I'm all for irony...really. I just like my irony in a nice low-cost, disposable format. Like this acrylic "diamond" ring I found on the same site. For $10 you get a stinking great heap of irony and, as they say, "a diamond is forever".