Post #20476 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 4:58 PM

On 2003-01-17 20:51, SugarCaddyDaddy wrote:
Keigs~

In speaking with some Witco owners who previously owned furniture stores way-back-when, they mentioned that Witco would sometimes create "one-off" pieces to be shown at different (larger) retail locations and "furniture shows" in order to test consumer response. If there was enough interest, then the "one-off" piece would be mass produced. Can you see if that was actually true? I have seen a couple of pieces that supposidely are one-of-a-kind Witco's.

I tend to believe that it could be true, since I previously had a retail store before, and learned that one-off's/prototypes to test consumer response are very common in just about all retail industries.

SugarCaddyDaddy

No, these are not Witco, they don't have the touch.

The one-offs were photographed for the each new catalogue, and if those pix in the catalogue did receive enough orders, they were kept in the line. So if some pictured items got NO order, only the prototype was made. Don't know if it was ever sold though. But this way there might be only 6 or 7 of a certain design that ever made it out of the shop and then manufacture was not continued....