Muskrat chairs? Nutria tablecloths? It's not THAT kind of Chesapeake!
Good morning.
One of my very first posts on this blog dealt with the weighty matter of the Pottery Barn catalog and its Chesapeake Collection, which featured landscapes that looked nothing like the bay we know. Lovely furniture, though -- if you had a few thousand to spare for sprucing up your patio.
Now comes the Pottery Barn Kids catalog with their "Chesapeake Safari Collection."
It features a wood table with "bold animal shapes" made out of "responsibly harvested eucalyptus trees" -- that would be wooden alligators, elephants and giraffes.
Do they know that a true safari in the Chesapeake Bay would not include the cute giraffes and elephants pictured but would more likely feature the not-so-cute muskrats, nutria and crabs that typically scurry around these parts? I suppose not. But I can't completely blame them, because I doubt a muskrat chair would be a huge seller.
Still, you wonder what is "Chesapeake" about this collection.
