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The floor sample was the only one in stock.

All floor samples are on sale at a further 10 percent to 40 percent off.

The floor sample sat unclaimed for weeks on end, its sticker price plummeting with each passing day.

"One hundred and eighteen years," the decorator said, heading into a narrow aisle of floor samples.

"We went through 10 to 15 floor samples," Mr. Kunz said.

The 17,000-square-foot center displays 21 kitchen and six bathroom arrangements, 10 fireplaces and more than 800 flooring samples.

This can give deceptive results, applying "safe" ratings to some flooring samples that are in fact very slippery when wet.

He also found the ottoman she had mentioned: large, cushiony, inviting, and labeled "floor sample."

"When I got the floor sample," Ms. Feldman said, "a friend was with me.

But their design and construction are often little short of ingenious, and the one floor sample the public is allowed to sit on is quite comfortable.

The large-size leather pants, skirts, coats and jackets are not in the major markdown category unless they bear special sale tags as "floor samples."

Abrasion of a flooring sample, tested with the pendulum before and after, is being used to assess "Sustainable Slip Resistance."

When purchasing new binoculars, look through the pair you are buying instead of the floor sample, since quality can vary, Mr. Malsin advised.

After the first sip of coffee, he regarded her with the beseeching eyes that women could barely resist and asked, "Would you consider selling me four floor sample?"

The furniture comes from Seaman's New Jersey warehouse, which accumulates floor samples and discontinued models from the company's 30 stores.

Sea floor sampling north as well as south of that path has failed to show evidence of the "Heinrich events," as these iceberg invasions are now called.

At C.I.T.E., Ms. Casey plans to offer customers 50 percent off on some floor samples and a sidewalk sale.

Since it can take a year to manufacture fully tested production versions of new toys, most floor samples are hand-built prototypes - some costing as much as $10,000.

Salon Moderne, at 281 Lafayette Street (Prince Street; 212-219-3439), is selling floor samples at big savings.

They said that they had to invest in floor samples and advertising, then watch while customers stopped by, kicked the tires and went and ordered the items on the Web.

The celebrities were there to check out the floor samples, overruns, overstock, slight irregulars, discontinued items, custom work returned by decorators and pieces rejected by decorator clients.

The hanging fixture is a nicked floor sample by Louis Poulsen that was about $200 at Lighting by Gregory, 158 Bowery, (212)226-1276.

A floor sample sale at the MoMA Design Store in SoHo begins on Jan. 31 and continues through Feb. 9.

Head down the gravel path to the art gallery and B&B Italia showroom, and check upstairs for killer kitchens and occasional floor samples in the low five-digit range.

Ms. Cohen assumed it was a vintage piece but was surprised to learn it was the floor sample of the store's new line - a newly designed and fabricated sofa, vintage 1999.