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Photo Credit: Philip Karlberg
Published July 29, 2009
The apartment is finally coming together. Your bar is fully stocked. Your flat-screen
is in perfect view—and those secret, embarrassing DVDs are well hidden. (Hey, that copy of
Yentl on Blu-ray is nobody's business but yours.)
So, alert your friends: it's show time.
Here to help you set the scene is Marquee Alphabet Letters, a remarkably easy way to make sure you
always get top billing when you tread the boards on that stage you call home.
Okay, so we admit spelling out your name with bright-red enamel-painted steel letters—illuminated with
a constellation of incandescent bulbs, no less—might seem a little, well…Kanye.
But even if you just want to see your initials in lights—you do have the gift of
understatement—because these are modeled after the kind of vintage marquee signs that you might see at
an old-fashioned movie house, they still serve as ample warning to your party guests: prepare for an evening
of action, laughs and, who knows, maybe a shootout.
If, however, you decide to hang them elsewhere in your apartment, say above your bed, they of course will
say something else.
Night-lights are for B-listers.