Hot Slut Of The Day!
The Pig Couch!
You may have taken in the magnificent sight of that timeless piece of elegance personified and looked at that practically-free price tag and immediately made plans to toss your old sofa and spend JUST $250 to transform your living room into the classiest place on the planet. But I hate to burst your O, because while the pig “couch” (seriously, it’s really more of an armchair and maybe a loveseat) is very real, that ad is very fake. So if you want a stoned pig lying in your living room, you’ll just have to invite me over.
Earlier this week, a trickster put up a Craigslist ad in New York, claiming that they bought this “pig couch” by artiste Pavia Burroughs for $11,000 but that their boyfriend doesn’t like it so they’re selling it for just $250. But as everyone’s dream bubble filled with the image of them getting porked on a pig, it turns out that the ad is a lie. The trickster who put that ad up on Craigslist really should’ve been arrested for messing with everyone’s emotions, but they weren’t, and they tell Curbed that they put up the ad because they “get joy out of the liminal space between the strange reality of NYC and the alternate reality of New Yorkers’ collective imagination.” That’s pretentious talk for “I love to troll!”
Curbed also talked to Pavia Burroughs, who really did create that masterpiece, and she says that she made it in 2011 as part of an installation for her thesis. She tried to sell it for months using the pics she took in her studio (the ones in the Craigslist ad) and eventually a man in Maryland bought it for $500. And it regularly makes an appearance in fake ads on Craigslist.
“Mind you, I hand-sewed this couch, it was my first foray in upholstering, and I hand-carved his hoof out of walnut — walnut is very hard to carve — and so it went off into the world. Now, every few years, someone posts a fake ad for the couch online,” a state of affairs that Burroughs finds both odd and funny. “I can’t imagine it’s actually been traveling around the country as much as it says it has. I’ve seen it in Tennessee. I think I saw it in California. I see now it’s in New York.” And it’s been making the rounds online for years. (“One time, Jinkx Monsoon posted it, and I was very excited about that,” she says.)
So sadly, if you want this gorgeous look of disappointment below to fill your living room, just look in the mirror after reading that this swine beauty isn’t available:
Classic 2020, teasing us with affordable and stunning luxury. That’s all folks, indeed.
Pics: Craigslist