T: My neighbor, Steve lived across the street and he was an amazing collector. It’s in the backyard. You could spend an entire day in my apartment with stories like that. She bought it for a quarter at a garage sale and seriously 40 years later I'm in a store and I see that tray and I call up my mom and I say, You remember that tray that you bought for 25 cents? I want it. I remember exactly that day when I was with my mom and she found this Stelton tray.which is a Danish serving tray. Z: Did you go to flea markets with your mom? She didn’t know the history or the academics of it, but she knew what she liked and tended to gravitate towards those things. I was introduced to Danish Modernism by my mother because of her thrifting ways-my mother wouldn’t know what Modernism was if it bit her, but she had an eye. I think it was such an interesting way to be introduced to culture.
My mother furnished our entire house with things she'd gotten second hand and I was really embarrassed by it growing up, I was like, Ohhhh God, could we just live like everybody else? But, as an adult I love it, right. TRAN: When we were younger, I really saw the thrifting as part of the immigrant identity.
