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Originally Posted by nlerner  Hi All,
This discussion about Kasumis and the "average consumer" reminds me of when I was teaching art history. I was always repeating that the most important thing was to understand the character, the background, and the place of each piece in the art history. It wasn't important to me as a teacher what anyone prefers because each of us has a different taste and comes from a different place. I can understand those who adore Renaissance (I don't), I love Greek art and the 'ugly' art of medieval times and contemporary art.
As Pattye wrote, Kasumi's beauty is in the variation of colors and irregularity. Kasumi has a character and I'm still waiting for 'the' one for a pendant. Hopefully Sara or Care will have it one day.
Inge, you should try the Jewish style artichoke when you visit Rome next time, - delicious........  |
This is an excellent point. There is always a context and understanding it, and each of our own, helps to explain how value gets assigned to a particular aesthetic and how or why certain things may be popular. Kasumis are certainly not the same aesthetic or appeal as a round cultured pearl or smoother skinned baroques, even. It's definitely a niche and I completely understand not being enamored of them. (Even though I am)
Free-associating off of that, I wonder how the specialty market would receive Kasumis if it hadn't been introduced to other non-traditional shapes and textures of pearls like numerous, high quality keishis over the last 30-ish years in popular/wearable styles and if Biwa pearls had never been introduced, sold and then extinct (so rare and by extension eve more valuable than during their cultivation).