Hi, today I'd like to talk about designer Van Day Trux. He, I just finished reading a book about him and they said he was the man who defined 20th century taste. He started his career at the Parsons Design School in New York City and there was said he, his influence worked through an entire generation of interior designers. After that he went to work for Tiffany a company in the year 1957. At that time Tiffany was floundering. They had their Victorian silver and they had rather traditional, not exciting, China crystal. One interesting story is about his redesigning of China. He wanted things that were different and different could be modernistic or could be something from the past that was timeless. He created this China pattern called wild strawberry. At that time the wedged wood company was creating all of Tiffany's China and they thought it would be a terrible failure. They were sure that there was going to be a huge loss involved with this wild strawberry China. So they told Tiffany that they needed an extremely large order and that Tiffany was responsible for paying for the order whether it's sold or not. When they told Van De Trux the size of the order he explained well that's not nearly enough. Trouble that order and he was exactly right. It was the biggest hit wedged wood China ever had and for decades it continued selling. On the silver front he got items not only from the United States but he broadened the reach and he got things from England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Mexico. So what kind of things did he get? From Italy he got these sort of modernistic 20th century style sterling leaves. He also got shells. These cute little duck place card holders are from Portugal. So very modern 20th century. My favorite piece that I have is this Mexican really heavy frog trinket box. It's very realistic. It opens up and you can put your rings or whatever it is. But this is the kind of piece that he did that he's famous for and are becoming quite valuable. Okay. On the flatware front what he created was almost by accident. So he thought that bamboo was a great motif. So he created a desk set with sterling bamboo and then in this case it's a magnifying glass a loose site. Pretty interesting design. It was a huge success. So he had letter openers, he had many items in the desk set and people asked for more. And so he created a bar set. Here's a bar knife. And so again, Martini spoons, you name it, they made it. And then Tiffany had no intention of creating a flatware pattern but there was such an outcry from the customer saying we want more pieces that they created the bamboo by Tiffany sterling flatware pattern. They went even further than that. They created dinner plates, candlesticks, little calendars, you name it. I even saw a bamboo straight razor. So no, and a safety razor. So I mean they really create everything they could out of bamboo. So, band-aids influence can still be seen today because the bamboo pattern while discontinued like most Tiffany patterns is very popular. It's one we can hardly keep on the shelf. Anyway, if you're looking for great 20th century items that are going to be even more popular tomorrow, I suggest band-aids tricks. Thanks.