Comments on: HOWTO decorate like a Mafia boss

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Ugly.

By: tripplevee

tripplevee — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000

No, no, no. It’s all wrong, there isn’t any plastic on the furniture.

By: tripplevee

tripplevee — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000

No, no, no. It’s all wrong, there isn’t any plastic on the furniture.

By: loroferoz

loroferoz — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:22:00 +0000

Camorra is not Mafia. They are organized crime modalities and organizations from Southern Italy alright. But as far as I know… They are different and with completely different origins. Even in these days they are different from each other.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:01:00 +0000

Quote by art critic Dave Hickey. A deep quote, food for thought and grounds for further research (introspection).

This type of kitsch might be cool, if it didn’t have the stigma of being almost exclusively associated to greedy, needy and paranoid sociopaths, even as the style screams out “Here I am, come and get me!”, or in Scarface parlance, “Take a good look at the bad guy!”

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:27:00 +0000

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By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:26:00 +0000

Although for the full-on effect, a Lladro crucifix would have been… simply awesome.

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:17:00 +0000

Said it before, and’ll say it again – 3d modelling software’s much too easy to get.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:11:00 +0000

… and every other previous president. Yet the White House always seems to be “tastefully appointed”. For some reason, that combination of terms in quotes gives me the giggles, sorta like “luncheon meats”.

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:03:00 +0000

nailed it, sir. everybody’s taking their shots, but I guarantee there is nothing remarkable about their homes. and everytime there’s a steampunk post or geeky, ironic 3D printed object post, they probably crowd the comments with accolades. man, whatever. this cat was probably a deplorable human being, but his crib is fully macked-out; and if you can’t get that, get the bozak.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000

In the German north and the Roman/Greek (?) south?

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:11:00 +0000

Putting your awards in the bathroom also has the advantage that anyone visiting the house is likely to have to spend some time in the room alone with the evidence of their host’s success. There are other places in the house a visitor can’t miss (I know a Nobelist whose medal is the only thing in their entryway, in a big presentation box), but noplace else in the house can the guest be expected to linger with no distractions.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:43:00 +0000

After watching Erik Gandini's sensational documentary Videocracy (NSFW), I would venture to say that if this is Mafia decor, then every powerful and famous person in Italy is in the Mafia. They uh, don't really do the whole "understatement" thing.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:03:00 +0000

Dunno. Pres. Obama seems to be pretty open to suggestions.

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:33:00 +0000

William Langewiesche had an incredible article in Vanity Fair about the Camorra. This Nicola Schiavone character figured heavily as a sort of stupider, crasser version of Sonny Corleone: the younger-generation spoiled brat with no common sense, no constraints, and no sense of decency.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:33:00 +0000

Just remembered something the late, great Lee Hazlewood said about his home in Arizona.

“I put all my gold records in the guest bathroom’s wall, so when people went in and flipped the switch, the room lit up gold. Many of them came out of there with their business still in their hand, going ‘My God!’”

But that was something else entirely, an wonderful eccentricity.

By: Oskar_Gruchen

Oskar_Gruchen — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:25:00 +0000

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege”

By: robuluz

robuluz — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:16:00 +0000

Its not to my taste, but I get it. “Go big or go fuck yourself”.

I think it works.

I’d be happier there than in a new build with cheap mass produced ‘Ye Olden Days’ style decor. At least this place knows what it is.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:16:00 +0000

Its not to my taste, but I get it. “Go big or go fuck yourself”.

I think it works.

I’d be happier there than in a new build with cheap mass produced ‘Ye Olden Days’ style decor. At least this place knows what it is.

By: Oskar_Gruchen

Oskar_Gruchen — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:13:00 +0000

Putting the “roman” in neuromancer

By: Oskar_Gruchen

Oskar_Gruchen — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:13:00 +0000

Putting the “roman” in neuromancer

By: Brood-X

Brood-X — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:59:00 +0000

what else would you use as background for a bidet?

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:21:00 +0000

An unsettling shade of poisoned silver perhaps?

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:06:00 +0000

Tacky is not lost on the italian underworld.

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:27:00 +0000

I was totally disoriented by it and nearly vomited pon my screen.

By: Ashley Yakeley

Ashley Yakeley — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:20:00 +0000

I’m loving the silver/navy chair with the sun/moon/note /heart etc.

By: Ashley Yakeley

Ashley Yakeley — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:20:00 +0000

I’m loving the silver/navy chair with the sun/moon/note /heart etc.

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:47:00 +0000

“The bathroom was the color digital television tuned to a dead channel”

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:46:00 +0000

A Lladro nativity scene . . . why am I not surprised?

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:44:00 +0000

It needs a mini-giraffe