Closing Day

Sadly, it's the last day of The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park. But you can keep in touch with all your favorite shops online. Check out their websites listed on the blog and the venue guide (hover over the name and click). Some shops have online stores and show where they'll be appearing in 2008.

Meanwhile, we'll be missing all the shops, like splash!organics (where one devoted customer visited during an awful rain storm to stock up on her yearly supply and extol the virtues of splash's soaps), lina's shop and her beautiful, delicate jewelry and Asian jackets, and Home Fields' 3-D replica stadiums, the perfect gift for a devoted sports fan's desk. And we can't wait to see Parable Ink, James Young, pip-squeak chapeau, Indonesia Beautiful, Metal Park, and all the rest again next holiday season. Happy New Year!

You'll be a Star

We all know one of them, those people who are the world's biggest Star Wars fans, who can recite lines and know what drinks were served at the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine (yes, I looked it up). Well, you are going to be a hero when you visit Metal Park in The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park and buy them a Darth Vader, Yoda, or stormtrooper wrought in recycled metal. The Darth Vaders were sold out when I visited; it seems the dark side is more popular than one would think. They'll be restocked soon. And for you Darth fans with deep pockets, the enormous dark prince standing in the corner (photo below) weighs 800 pounds, can come apart in 7 pieces, and costs $7,000. Metal Park sells one almost every year in the holiday shops.












Prices for the smaller metal art run from $10 - $300. For example, the biggest Yoda up there is $250 and the next size down is $100. These are made in Thailand by 12 artists who comb junkyards for scrap metal, especially lots of old car parts. So not only are you impressing your favorite Star Wars fan, you're also shopping green.

Nb: Metal Park also carries Predators, Aliens, Terminators, Batman and more.

Metal Park, D14 on the venue guide