re: How can anybody pass this one up?

Fear not, there’s always this little charmer. It’s a designer “sculpture” or the bottom of a piling cut off and hosed down…a real bargain at 900 quid…
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Architectural-Hard-Wood-Timber-and-Metal-Original-Designer-Sculpture-/191170137627?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276