Watched over by the Panther God of the Ceiling Joists, the chandeliers battle for supremacy. Who will win?
Oh, the Chihulity…
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Vul. Ger.
Woops!
Vul. Gar.
Dude, if I lived in that house, I’d spend all my time under the Chihuly tentacle tornado with my arms in the air, cackling manaically as though I’d just summoned it. Step one to having an exciting, badass life.
Oooh. Maybe have a fan going nearby, so your hair can swoosh dramatically?
And you’ll definitely need a cape of some sort with that fan blowin’, to round out the effect nicely.
Panther or no panther, I’d still love to pull on that wall sconce to see what happens (sliding panel? revolving fireplace? trap door? blown fuse?)
Panther attack?
5 bedrooms and NINE bathrooms???
A snip at only $25million, showing once more that money and taste don’t always go together. It would be like living in a museum.
Yes, exactly … like living in a museum. I pass.
(Not that I have $25 million handy anyway.)
OK, that’s not money, that’s MUUU-NEEEH.
Those furnishings are vulgar, but they’re high-quality vulgar. That vanity bench in the bathroom cost more than the down payment on my house.
I’d love to have that kind of money. I’d spend it differently, but I’d love to have it.
It looks exactly like the Egyptian-themed theatre at Arundel Mills Mall in Maryland! Which, mind you, is like, over-the-top for a movie theatre (even without an ugly-ass Chihuly factory chandelier) but okay, it’s a movie theatre entry. As a *house* though? I mean, how could anyone ever visit and keep a straight face? I’d just walk in, burst out laughing, and probably have to use my asthma rescue inhaller …
For a shot of the exterior (trust me, the interior looks JUST like the alleged house above) check it out: http://baltimore.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=baltimore&cdn=citiestowns&tm=6&f=10&su=p554.12.336.ip_&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&zu=https%3A//www.muvico.com/default.asp%3Ft%3D205
this house has been on the market for 3-4 years now. Started at $40mill. I’d say it’s a bargain! And you failed to show the egyptian columned pool. I’d swim there…like and egyptian.
Swimming like an Egyptian = VERY FAST. To get away from the crocodiles.
Tell me they didn’t also buy Nile crocodiles.
Whoa! That’s insane, yet also awesome. It’d be like living in a museum. A museum that hands out acid tabs with your admission ticket.
And if you liked that, you’ll *love* Nick Cage’s house…
http://www.363copadeoro.com/mls/
(Redfin)
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/363-Copa-De-Oro-Rd-90077/home/6827067
Rosebud!
Nice Photoshoppery on that Chihuly reflection. Also, that photo with the chandeliers and tables looks like they cut it out of a magazine.
Is it a Chihuly or Cthulhu? Maybe it’s a Cthihulylhu.
THIS.
I have seen chandeliers like the top one before, actually. (Perhaps I have even seen this house on some TV show before.) Anyway, the ones I have seen are actually in Omaha, which is near I live. They’re in a museum.
I quite like they Egyptian theming. But most of the other stuff is rather overwrought.
Although I want the pool.
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If I suddenly owned that house (with furnishings) I would seriously be embarrassed to have people over. That house is GROSS. Like “gold plated Hummer” gross!
I’d have more respect if it cost $500k and was furnished entirely from the Fingerhut catalog.
Well in that case, perhaps you’d be interested in this musical Elvis mailbox that plays “Return To Sender” when the flag is raised? Offered for $49.99 at Fingerhut, my price only $10.99 (on mine, Elvis suffered from a little “postage dew”).
ABSOLUTELY.
Actually I’m still sad I never took advantage of their limited-time offer on a Twelve Apostles watch. “Ah, I see it’s half past Paul.”
Bummer. That was the one with the Roman numerals, right? Don’t worry, I heard they were going to resurrect that one.
I bet we haven’t seen the rooms the owners actually occupy. The furniture mostly looks uncomfortable. There’s one sofa that looks like you could sit on it, but it is covered with pillows so you can’t sit on it.
And I don’t know if I really want to sit at a chair when I have *two* ottomans’ worth of cats (jaguars?) staring each other down, waiting for the cat-fight.
And when looking at that tub, I kept thinking, “About 2 minutes after you fill it with hot water, the stone will suck the heat out, leaving you with a cold bath.”
With that price tag, it better have ambient heating.
Okay, owning a Chihuly chandelier? Incredibly awesome. The rest? Uhh, not so much.
I like the fake-Egyptian stuff, and I agree that tugging at the wall sconce should open a door to a Seekrit Passidge. The Cthulhu chandelier is at least more interesting than the others.
With that much money to spend, I’d probably buy Duerer woodcuts, or maybe custom furniture of rare woods. Restrained. But I do have a sort of reluctant respect for anyone with the chutzpah to fit a house with such expensive vulgarity.
Well, if you like Egyptianish decor...
Comparing both posts prooves that money doesn’t change much in the end when you think about it…
My mental soundtrack to this one is Jay-z Big Pimpin. Looks a bit like the place in the vid, plus what better soundtrack for neo-Orientalist swimming pool decor than a splice of Egyptian Abdel Halim Hafez.
OOH! Sparkly!
It’s in Washington, home of Gill Gates and Paul Allen. Maybe it belongs to one of them? They can certainly afford this!
This looks like one of the high end Las Vegas high roller rooms–all money and very little taste.
Ahh I knew Id seen that style before: that Chihuly guy did this sculpture in Kew Gardens in London. I imagine “The Sun” would be the winner in the battle of the glassware
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass.sculpture.kewgardens.london.arp.jpg
I kind of like the twisty glass one. It reminds me of the one in the atrium of the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
I’m sorry, did that listing say “wardrobe WING”?
The salt water pool with the Egyptian style columns could be fun, especially if the wall sconce opened a secret door – maybe to a fully-stocked wine cellar? Most of the rest of that place is just conspicuous consumption with little taste.
Unless it were a hotel/resort. Then maybe.
Or not.
So much for the old “Less is more.”
Looky there. It’s the house where they murdered restraint, tact, and decorum, then festooned the walls with the remains.
Sweet.
This is proof that sometimes more is less.
Sometimes a lot less.
By the way, as I posted and got up to leave, I realized something: I wasn’t very shocked by the house, tacky as it is. Reason being?
Pretty darned sure I’ve seen it before, it was the pool that stood out in my mind. The HGTV series, “What’s with that House?” with George Gray, featured this house on a special called, “What’s with that Really Expensive House?”
Believe it or not, the owner was really very nice, and unlike two of the other houses on that special, showed the HGTV guy around himself (vs. having his personal assistant do it).
So, not much taste, but seemingly a good guy overall.
Rich and nice? Is he single too?
It was on the tip of my tongue to say “Yes, but gay”, but then I thought “No gay man has such atrocious taste”
Think he’s a polygamist?
I’m not willing to leave hubby but holy cow would my kids have fun in that house.
(I know this is months behind, but I’m bored at work)
I saw that episode, and the owner was the fella who made his mega-fortune inventing/building/selling high-end retirement homes/assisted living homes. Started off with a mere $1200 or something. Gosh, what luck…
I love that you have a tag for “we get it you have money”
My money is on the Tentacle Monster, unless this listing also includes the ubiquitous Japanese-Schoolgirls-With-Katanas.
I thank my LOLcat overlords for the tags.
PS does anyone else think the stairs look like they are made of head cheese?
Seriously why not stick with the black and white?
Dammit wrong house.
Oi
Ignore the comment above
The bad news is that the original owner’s internal organs are kept in that big jar above the panther fireplace.
Well, that just goes to show you that this kind of decorating *really* takes guts.
The people selling that house made their fortune in retirement communities. And that chandelier cost close to $500,000. It’s been on the market for years, and now its almost half off the original asking price!
I wondered about that. Consider the listing price and then consider the price of the chandelier. Would it be a good investment? Chihuly isn’t even dead yet. hmmm…
I’d like to live there. When all the tacky stuff starts to wear out it’ll look like a great ancestral house of horrors. Mmmm.
My beef is with the bot that spewed the beyond purple blurb:
“… the manse itself a shy one-half acre showpiece surging to the sun.” Shy? Shy about what? And this “surging to the sun” business…are you trying to say the joint is on top of a fault line?!?
“Unparalleled dinner chambres…”
Ooh, we have “chambres” now – too good for mere rooms, are we?
“…master suite of epic proportions”
Which epic, pray tell? And did you ever write one of those reports about a “monumental traffic jam?”
“An arena of mirrored lagoons, saltwater pools…”
Glass in a pool, jeez…
“Jeweled candles of city lights; sunsets drawing your vision to the rugged Olympic Mt. crags.”
Oh shut up shut up stf up!
Dig the mortgage calculator to the right of the pictures:
Assuming 25 mil sale price; 5 mil down payment, the monthly mortgage is ONLY $107,364 – not much less than I paid for a WHOLE house.
I have a feeling that if you’re flush enough to buy this place – with 5 mil down, no less – you’re not spending a lot of time calculating whether or not you can afford the monthly mortgage payments.
That’s no chandelier, it’s Lady Gaga hanging from the ceiling!
Woahhh…that decor is WICKED. Can this house be picked up and moved to San Francisco? I so want to live there.
I can’t help but think of that scene in Only Fools and Horses, when they hammered out the wrong locking pin…
Am I the only one who finds the big white chandelier thingy to be oddly reminiscent of those beings at the end of “The Dark Crystal”?
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another “FANCY” house A?