Elon Musk is selling Twitter HQ's espresso machines, Eames chairs, and sculptures in a giant auction

If you’ve ever secretly wanted a 6-foot-high sculpture of an @ sign that doubles as a planter, now is your chance. The sculpture is one of the hundreds of items from Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters going on the auction block, including a blue Twitter bird statue, a handful of Eames chairs, giant, flat panel TVs, and a variety of kitchen equipment ranging from a vegetable dryer to more than a dozen espresso machines. The items were listed on the online site BidSpotter under the heading “Online Auction Sale Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter,” with most items showing opening bid prices set at $25 and $50. The auction follows Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October. Musk has been racing to cut costs since he took over the social media company, a deal he tried unsuccessfully to back out of and for which he acknowledged he overpaid. Musk laid off half of the company’s 6,000 workers in November, and told those that remained to be prepared for a “hardcore” work life or to resign. Musk has also told employees that there is “a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn,” according to the AP, and tweeted
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