Heated toilet seats? Live-in Chef?
Fabulously decadent things you imagine rich people having
by Anonymous | reply 159 | March 25, 2020 9:39 PM |
Heated toilet seats are not expensive - at all. Neither is heated flooring in the bathrooms, which I did with my last reno.
And no one really has a live-in chef, except on a yacht.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 24, 2020 4:39 AM |
A car for the dogs, so they don’t skank-up the other cars.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 24, 2020 4:42 AM |
A house manager and a practically invisible staff.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 24, 2020 5:06 AM |
Brunch
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 24, 2020 5:41 AM |
Having your driver turn into the “General Aviation” gate at the airport.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 24, 2020 5:53 AM |
A gift-wrapping room.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 24, 2020 5:54 AM |
A top of the line Japanese toilet with all the bells and whistles, including multiple streams of heated air to dry your crack and hole.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 24, 2020 6:12 AM |
On-call doctor and lawyer.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 24, 2020 7:19 AM |
Private helicopter!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 24, 2020 7:33 AM |
What is that at the OP? Elevator?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 24, 2020 8:52 AM |
Butler, Pastry Chef, Back-up Maid, Cook
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 24, 2020 9:15 AM |
A walk-in closet larger than my apartment. For each family member.
Wine cellars that are actually full of wine.
Security systems so advanced, the motion sensors can tell whether that movement in the back yard is a human or a raccoon.
Swiss bank accounts.
Pictures of major public figures with Epstein, kept just in case they're needed.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 24, 2020 9:32 AM |
The sorta rich (1-10 mil net worth) always surprise me with their cheapness when it comes to buying say, store brand food, knockoff designer brands, costume jewelry. I had a millionaire boss that paid the caregiver for his wife's mother 20 bucks a week and put her up in the shed. Recommended to them by their Church. Isn't that lovely?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 24, 2020 9:36 AM |
Oh, but a pool full of gold coins and jewels that they can dive in to is my official answer.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 24, 2020 9:40 AM |
A bullet proof panic room. Now more than ever.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 24, 2020 9:44 AM |
Personal assistant who knows what coffee you like, how much half ‘n’ half, one pack white sugar, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 24, 2020 10:04 AM |
Acres of lush lawn in Beverly Hills.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 24, 2020 10:07 AM |
I was that guy for a while r18, Ugh. Also knew what you wanted for lunch, the type of weed you smoked and condoms you liked. Not doing that again no matter how much you pay me.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 24, 2020 10:44 AM |
We had a live-in cook growing up in the 70s. She wasn't a formally-trained chef, nor did we call her a chef.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 24, 2020 11:01 AM |
Haha - I read “ Heated toilet seats? Live-in Chef?” as “Heated toilet seats? Live-in Cher?”.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 24, 2020 11:05 AM |
A trust fund
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 24, 2020 11:17 AM |
R2 What's the point of having a dog then, if not spend as much time with them as possible
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 24, 2020 11:19 AM |
A bath you can fill with milk and rose petals, and in which you can cry.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 24, 2020 11:24 AM |
Children with searing hatred for you.
R5’s still is from Olivia DeHaviland’s “Lady In a Cage” and is one of the most frightening movies with some oddly sexy scenes thrown in as well
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 24, 2020 11:30 AM |
Bedrooms the size of a NYC apartment, with the walk-in closet, private bathroom, couch and king bed
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 24, 2020 11:31 AM |
At her Martha's Vineyard estate, Jackie Onassis had heated towel racks in the bathrooms.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 24, 2020 11:36 AM |
R10, Definitely!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 24, 2020 11:39 AM |
Invisible staff.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 24, 2020 11:44 AM |
Large estates one for each season in different countries.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 24, 2020 11:45 AM |
Hotel suites located in various cities around the globe. These would be only made available to you and never to anyone else. Hotel staff would be ready for your arrival at a moment's notice. All the furniture, bedding, etc. would have been replaced and never been used by another guest.
I travel often and have to ignore that fact that hundreds, if not thousands, have slept in the same bed and walked on the same carpet where I stay.
Just read what R31 wrote. I want that too. Sort of the same idea.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 24, 2020 11:46 AM |
Heated towel racks R28 are very common in Europe. AS common as a bidet.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 24, 2020 11:50 AM |
You can buy stand-alone heated towel racks. They were decadent then, not now.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 24, 2020 11:56 AM |
Decent healthcare/ Coronavirus testkit :(
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 24, 2020 12:02 PM |
vast underground facilities. A family I know have a compound in the South of France with three mansions on the site and each has its own pool. there is a show off drive - but under the circle connecting the house, is a huge garage for 50 cars and tunnels into the houses. Then one day in one main kitchen a servant went down stairs and later I saw him walk out by the pool of the neighboring palace. So I asked the housekeeper, a big jolly Indian, and he took me on a subterranean tour. Everything was connected below the ground and there were all kinds of service rooms, servant rooms, store rooms, and there were in fact 2 systems of tunnels - one for servants, the other for the family and guests.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 24, 2020 12:10 PM |
"vast underground facilities. A family I know have a compound in the South of France with three mansions on the site...under the circle connecting the house, is a huge garage for 50 cars and tunnels into the houses. Everything was connected below the ground and there were all kinds of service rooms, servant rooms, store rooms..."
Ummm...WE did this FIRST!!!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 24, 2020 12:26 PM |
Toilet paper
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 24, 2020 1:09 PM |
"A bath you can fill with milk and rose petals, and in which you can cry."
R25 = Madonna
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 24, 2020 1:33 PM |
I can have a glorious bath in milk or rose petals in a heated clawfoot tub, any time I like, and I would be considered pauvre by DL standards.
The roses are heirloom, and gorgeous, but I still cry in the bath.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 24, 2020 1:39 PM |
Stablehands to just pass your horse over to when you're done riding. They take care of the horse and its tack and clean its stall and make vet and farrier appointments.
Now shut up with your dirty thoughts-the stablehands are too busy taking care of my horses to entertain your perversions!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 24, 2020 1:59 PM |
Horses are an anachronism. More likely it's car, driver, mechanic.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 24, 2020 2:14 PM |
TRUMP ON A DIRECT LINE.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 24, 2020 2:17 PM |
[quote] On-call doctor
It's called a personal physician.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 24, 2020 4:02 PM |
[quote] R24 What's the point of having a dog then, if not spend as much time with them as possible?
You use one of your usual cars when you can not, or care not to, bring the dog along. If you can or care to, you take the dog’s car with the dog. What he does with the car when not with you is his business.
My family dog had his own car once and it was quite useful.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 24, 2020 5:23 PM |
Your own ventilator...just in case.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 24, 2020 5:37 PM |
An island in the Caribbean with a private airstrip for your (non-shared) Gulfstream.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 24, 2020 6:22 PM |
Coronavirus test kits even if you don’t have any symptoms or exposure
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 24, 2020 6:34 PM |
Peace of mind.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 24, 2020 7:33 PM |
An automatic dishwarsher!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 24, 2020 7:38 PM |
A woodburning pizza oven in the garden
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 24, 2020 7:47 PM |
R52, Liza, Is that you?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 24, 2020 7:49 PM |
Personal shoppers for each of the children at the high-end retailer of choice: Saks, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman-Marcus.
For the lady of the house, a personal shopper or team at EACH of those retailers. Possibly a regular stylist on call with connections to several designers of choice.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 24, 2020 7:54 PM |
A cement pond
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 24, 2020 7:54 PM |
Shoes
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 24, 2020 7:55 PM |
[quote] At her Martha's Vineyard estate, Jackie Onassis had heated towel racks in the bathrooms.
Heated towel racks are affordable. So what if it's no longer "in fashion." They're great for cold, damp, wet climates like San Francisco.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 24, 2020 7:59 PM |
The top rated towel warmer is $259
Live large guys!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 24, 2020 8:04 PM |
For us renters out there: freestanding heated towel racks.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 24, 2020 8:08 PM |
"On-call doctor. It's called a personal physician. "
A wealthy friend had what he called a "concierge physician", who was available by telephone at any hour of the day or night. And who, BTW, proved less than useless in a medical crisis.
As for heated towel racks, a middle-class friend who lives in foggy foggy Daly City has one. If she washes delicates in the sink it's the only way they'll dry, and I doubt Jacqueline B.K.O. had any idea they could be used for that.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 24, 2020 8:11 PM |
FT: housekeeper, nanny, personal shopper, assistant, chef.
Heated floors, room purifiers, 100% sound proof walls/windows.
Private garden and private pool with FT maintenance for both.
Private gym with the latest equipment and personal trainer.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 24, 2020 8:17 PM |
A personal bodyguard.
My husband is very tall and well-built and I am a pocket gay, 5'9". We live in Europe and sometimes the sidewalks are so narrow you cannot walk side by side, so he is behind me. If someone hassles me or pushes me, he steps in and scares the shit out of them. Fun times!
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 24, 2020 8:29 PM |
Luxury torture room designed by Peter Marino.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 24, 2020 8:40 PM |
Has someone I have blocked already corrected the egregious mistaking of Suddenly Last Summer for Lady In A Cage?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 24, 2020 8:50 PM |
Lyme disease from their country house in Litchfield.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 24, 2020 8:53 PM |
A lot of these are new money fantasies. There is still some old money left who haven't been absorbed by the vulgarity derby of our society, but you never hear from them. So I'll suggest your name being in the newspaper three times in your life and no more.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 24, 2020 8:56 PM |
R61, Again, JBKO's Martha's Vineyard estate was built in 1979.
I'm assuming towel warmers were not that prevalent or affordable then, ergo considered decadent.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 24, 2020 8:58 PM |
Works of Old Masters hanging above the fireplace.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 24, 2020 8:59 PM |
While that may be true R69, the title of the thread is "fabulously decadent things"
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 24, 2020 9:04 PM |
I just put my towel on the radiator.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 24, 2020 9:05 PM |
Heated towel racks are right up there in worthlessness as stove top pot fillers.
They heat the towel in one stripe of warmth. Trés stupide.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 24, 2020 10:06 PM |
A rotating supply of organ and stem cell donors.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 24, 2020 10:12 PM |
Having an artist do a small book of watercolor paintings as a record of my lawn striping patterns - one edition of one for each estate.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 24, 2020 10:23 PM |
R1-Mrs. Stonehurst has a live in chef
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 24, 2020 10:26 PM |
I recently stayed at a good hotel that had one of those toilets that do everything for you. I’m so buying one if we redo the bathroom. No worries for TP!
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 24, 2020 10:31 PM |
Bidding an insane amount at a charity function so Martha Stewart will drop by and prepare dinner for you and a dozen guests.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 24, 2020 10:35 PM |
[quote] I recently stayed at a good hotel that had one of those toilets that do everything for you. I’m so buying one if we redo the bathroom. No worries for TP!
R78 , you don't need to "redo" your bathroom. You do need an electrical outlet near your toilet. You also need to split the water supply to your toilet: (1) water for toilet flushing + (2) water for bidet washer. You can either DIY or hire a plumber.
Toto Washlet would be the gold standard. Prices have come down to ~ $300. I believe Costco sells it.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 24, 2020 10:58 PM |
R78, Aren't you still left with a wet crack?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 24, 2020 11:02 PM |
There's a dryer on the Toto Washlet, R81.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 24, 2020 11:06 PM |
A de facto hair salon. Can’t go with them roots.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 24, 2020 11:26 PM |
Povo pleb thread
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 24, 2020 11:32 PM |
Nancy Reagan had a private hair salon (she was the sole patron) installed onsite in the White House, with her own (openly gay, FWIW) stylist on call.
This was done at great effort and expense--Kitty Kelley details it in her book.
Nancy essentially had her hair styled daily, with weekly color touch-ups, wash and sets, and regular cuts. She never rated that treatment when she was a contract player in Hollywood.
I'm sure Barbara Bush turned it into a mud room or some such.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 24, 2020 11:58 PM |
R85 I think just about every woman wants one about now.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 25, 2020 12:02 AM |
[quote] Nancy essentially had her hair styled daily, with weekly color touch-ups, wash and sets, and regular cuts.
I bet that hairdresser was at the White House more than 1 time per week.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 25, 2020 12:27 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 25, 2020 12:30 AM |
Throwing fabulous no expense spared parties.
A friends sister for her 84th birthday rented the ballrooms at the St. Regis hotel in NYC and threw herself a spare no expense party. She flew friends in from Europe and put them up for a week at the St. Regis, hired acrobats from Circque Du Soleil to entertain, the food was incredible, every table had a custom made birthday cake. I was told that the party cost $400k. It was formal so I had to get a tux.
She threw other parties like this and I was fortunate to be invited to them.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 25, 2020 12:53 AM |
^^^ She sounds like a lot of fun!
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 25, 2020 2:02 AM |
Asian children doing the laundry and cleaning because their hands are small and gentle.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 25, 2020 2:31 AM |
I'm sorry you all are living so poorly, but, really, there is a difference between living like a Kuntdashian and living well. And some of the apparent amenities of what you imagine is wealth are not so great.
We've had to make arrangements to keep our two live-in staff people isolated with us full time so we don't create problems for each other. We now miss our Thursday "going it alone" day. And, not that I mind it, we are paying for 7 days a week as if they are working overtime, while not being able to entertain at all. And it is getting difficult for our cook to locate good ducks.
So please quit being so selfish and blaming. We all are suffering. Although I admit our houseman's OCD has kicked in and the place has never been cleaner.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 25, 2020 2:43 AM |
Dancing with dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 25, 2020 2:49 AM |
Miss R93 wins!
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 25, 2020 4:15 AM |
I know a woman in NYC who has two personal drivers. One for herself, and one for her kids. My kid is friends with her kid. They go all over the city in this SUV, on a whim. Naturally, the kid just wants to ride the subway like everyone else. The mom wears high heels and no coat in the winter because she just pops in and out of the car on her various errands. It’s such a luxury, IMO.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 25, 2020 4:23 AM |
[quote]Oh, but a pool full of gold coins and jewels that they can dive in to is my official answer.
Except this is the reality, not that Scrooge McDuck bullshit:
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 25, 2020 4:43 AM |
This is something I recently read about Jayne Wrightsman: When she traveled to Paris, she would have 2 cars waiting at the airport enroute to her hotel. The 1st for her and the 2nd for her luggage.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 25, 2020 5:16 AM |
r85 You think Melania doesn't have one too, which would run rings around old Nancy's. I also remember seeing old footage of removalists moving the Kennedy's belongings from the White House and a man was wheeling an old hood bonnet hair dryer into a van, so Jackie had the same setup. They're first ladies, they have to look good and they can;t just go to a normal salon, the security logistics alone would be insane. Makes perfect sense to have an in home beauty salon, it's hardly elitist. Babs Bush would be the exception. She'd run a comb through her hair once a day, no makeup and be content looking like a dyke. The Eleanor Roosevelt method.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 25, 2020 5:23 AM |
R87, "Nancy Reagan's hairdresser is Julius Bengtsson of West Los Angeles. He’s very California with his Levi’s and his sweatshirts. He won’t reveal his age, but he’s been doing Nancy’s hair for 15 years, and he still flies to Washington once a month to do her color—”light brown with highlights,” he says. Julius uses the money from his $12,000-a-year consulting contract with Clairol to pay for the trips."
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 25, 2020 5:29 AM |
R100 he had to pay for his own travel????
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 25, 2020 5:31 AM |
Nancy offered to pay with oral, but he had his limits.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 25, 2020 5:38 AM |
What would $12,000.00 be in today's dollars?
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 25, 2020 5:40 AM |
I'm in love I'm in love with a wonderful [R76]
oh thank you
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 25, 2020 5:44 AM |
Middle Eastern uber rich princess or someone purchased a huge pre-war mansion on UES (East 72nd off Fifth), and promptly also bought building next door or a few away for servants to live. In basements you can see through windows they installed what seems to be the mother of all laundry rooms. Several high end washing machines, dryers and a rotary iron. Am guessing that is where all laundry is done including linens instead of sending things out.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 25, 2020 5:48 AM |
Actually, R99, Eleanor Roosevelt had great hair, a thick wavy blonde mane, which she wore pinned up as was the style for matrons of her day.
I don't know how much effort was involved in that, maybe she had a lady's made who pinned it up for her in the morning, maybe she just wadded it up and sometimes it came out looking nice instead of frowsy.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 25, 2020 6:06 AM |
Mr. Kenneth, "Secretary of Grooming" to the Kennedy administration
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 25, 2020 6:16 AM |
Buying multiple apartments on the same floor, busting down walls, and creating a larger space.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 25, 2020 6:19 AM |
Mr Kenneth spills dirt on Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and some of his other famous ladies.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 25, 2020 6:25 AM |
Later in life until her death Jackie Kennedy Onassis had a once week "blow out" at her Fifth Avenue home.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 25, 2020 6:27 AM |
Later in life until her death Jackie Kennedy Onassis had a once week "blow out" at her Fifth Avenue home.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 25, 2020 6:27 AM |
R99
Agreed!
Many famous or at least wealthy women of 1930's onward had those bonnet hair dryers or whatever else it took for an at home beauty salon. Even Mame Dennis had a hairdresser come to her Beekman Place apartment to dye her hair a more "respectable" shade. Then there was that box of hairpieces.....
Don't think Jackie Kennedy was doing her own wash and set and comb outs (can you imagine her going to bed in curlers?), but when it was time for such things Mr. Kenneth or whoever came to the WH.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 25, 2020 6:39 AM |
Mrs. Nancy Reagan had another hairdresser as well; Monsieur Marc!
by Anonymous | reply 113 | March 25, 2020 6:43 AM |
Then there was Mr. Julius of Beverly Hills, Mrs. Reagan's west coast hairdresser.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 25, 2020 6:46 AM |
R26 wrote:
[quote]R5’s still is from Olivia DeHaviland’s “Lady In a Cage” and is one of the most frightening movies with some oddly sexy scenes thrown in as well
I would think R5's still is from "Suddenly, Last Summer". Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift aren't in "Lady in a Cage".
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 25, 2020 6:53 AM |
Oh dear. R66 already made the correction.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 25, 2020 6:59 AM |
Before the revolution certain Russian nobility and perhaps even members of the Romanov family had bowls full of diamonds just sitting out on a table. They would pick up handfuls to fondle and play with like little pebbles.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | March 25, 2020 8:09 AM |
Regarding towel warmers - they are common in Europe. They are not to warm up your towel before use; they are to dry your towel after use so it doesn't become mouldy and smelly. European houses may have no or limited central heating. In Italy, for example, most people have the heating on for just a few hours of the day, and it is illegal to turn it on between April and October (that may vary with region).
by Anonymous | reply 118 | March 25, 2020 8:37 AM |
“My knees were shaking,” says Montalvo, now 57. “I was sort of shocked. I remembered seeing her (Jackie Onassis) at the age of 8 or 9 when the accident happened with her husband.”
Oh honey, it weren't an accident.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 25, 2020 8:59 AM |
Having their sheets changed every day.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 25, 2020 9:07 AM |
Saudi royals travel with huge staff - like in our Robber Barron Gilded Age times. Yes, there are laundresses. The richer more important royals travel in two jumbo jets the staff is so large. Unlike our Gilded Ages, the permanent staff at residences (outside the Kingdom) is not as large, except if there are gardens to maintain.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 25, 2020 9:08 AM |
My former boss had most of this stuff. His wife was really particular. They had his/her bathrooms/dressing rooms and they also had a laundry room attached to it. They also had a laundry room downstairs
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 25, 2020 9:13 AM |
If I were super-rich, one of the things I'd want would be a menagerie of animals, all kept in optimal conditions, and an on-site veterinarian to maintain their health.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | March 25, 2020 9:18 AM |
I just installed a Toto in one of my clients condo. Those things are like 4,000. to crap in. She loves it though so...
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 25, 2020 9:26 AM |
Their heads still attached to their evil necks.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 25, 2020 9:29 AM |
R112/r113 damn I remember all those salons — I was a tiny kid but my mom used to go, and she took me for overpriced cuts at Kenneth a couple of times. (That TH burned down in a “fire,” btw)
Hair salons — especially in New York, are such a fickle trendy business, within 5-8 years whichever are the hot ones at the time are over and into the next. If you can manage to be relevant for more than a decade it’s a minor miracle. I guess Oscar Blandi and Fekkai rode out that wave. But most don’t.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 25, 2020 9:31 AM |
OP your pic of a glass circular elevator - where is that? I know a private super yacht that has and elevator and marble stair like that.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 25, 2020 9:40 AM |
r127 It looks like it's from outer Moscow.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | March 25, 2020 9:46 AM |
R104, If I had those things I'd hire you, if your watercolour style hinted in the direction of Rex Whistler, Barnett Freedman, Charles Ginner, John Piper and that sort.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 25, 2020 9:52 AM |
I didn't want to say it, but the elevator (and surrounding area) in OP's photo looks tacky, IMO.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | March 25, 2020 9:53 AM |
The "fabulously decadent" superrich are often very tacky, but if you go with an open eye, they are by definition also fabulous and decadent.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | March 25, 2020 9:56 AM |
Check out this site to see what the super-rich actually do have.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | March 25, 2020 9:58 AM |
Typical Cote d'Azur palais for the "fabulously decadent" superrich
by Anonymous | reply 133 | March 25, 2020 10:01 AM |
I'm R52 and I was only being slightly sarcastic. I've never had an automatic dishwasher, and my kitchen is too small to accommodate one. I'd have to move to a different house if I really wanted one, although I recently discovered that there are countertop dishwashers. If I buy one, I'll have to plan an elegant soiree to show it off!
by Anonymous | reply 134 | March 25, 2020 10:04 AM |
Mistresses. Boytoys. Understanding wives.
And in the case of straights, children by each girlfriend of mistress.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | March 25, 2020 10:09 AM |
A Mr. French.
A portly, jolly butler annoyed by your lack of manners.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | March 25, 2020 10:30 AM |
One thing I'd never put up with is snotty servants. If I had a butler or manservant, I'd want him to be like Harold in 'A New Leaf.' Henry Graham and Harold were a team.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | March 25, 2020 10:33 AM |
R137, the Queen is known to invite one of her favorite servants, 'Tall Paul' Whybrew to watch the telly with her.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | March 25, 2020 10:43 AM |
Mr. French wasn't snotty, he had class, style and manners. Reserved but very lovable guy.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | March 25, 2020 10:49 AM |
She was R90 another thing she like to do was assemble a small group of friends and go to the best restaurants in NY. I was invited occasionally those were also memorable too, on one dinner when the waiter asked what we wanted for dessert she would say bring every dessert on the menu. The waiter would bring a large tray with a piece of every dessert on the menu she loved doing things like this.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | March 25, 2020 11:36 AM |
That sounds like it was so fab R140!
by Anonymous | reply 141 | March 25, 2020 11:42 AM |
If you can afford built-in towel warmers -- the kind where the hot water supply pipe to the bath comes out of the wall, forming a rack on which to drape a towel, then you probably are a "one and done" towel user anyway.
If you want warm towels, have your staff remove the towel set you wish to use from the clothes dryer while you are bathing and leave them out for use when you finish bathing.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | March 25, 2020 12:41 PM |
Towel warmers are not 1 pipe. They warm an entire towel. Sheesh.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 25, 2020 12:44 PM |
Never buy cheap chrome plated towel warmer/radiators, they rust like crazy. I had to replace them every few years before I found a stainless steel version.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | March 25, 2020 1:24 PM |
R123, unless they're dogs or cats or like hamsters/gerbils, they don't belong with you. They belong in the wild. Having a vet wouldn't make you better if you expect to be like Michael Jackson.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 25, 2020 2:19 PM |
Home elevators like the one in OP's pic aren't that crazy expensive. My elderly aunt had one installed in her new townhouse and it was only $30,000.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | March 25, 2020 2:20 PM |
R126
Federic Fekkai is still around with several salons in NYC at least. He and his wife also have their vast hair care line that ranges from color to shampoos/conditioners, etc... Am guessing that is where real money is nowadays.
Years ago worked with this UES WASP chic who like her mother had her blonde hair "done" at Federic Fekkai. Unless you are someone he knows or super famous others will do the color and so one, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Even when M. Fekkai does deem you worthy again unless you are someone very high on totem pole, or spending $$$$$ per, all that happens is Monsieur comes in applies color then moves on; most of the prep, shampooing, etc.. is all done by assistants. Maybe he comes back to cut and style....
Most of these "Mr. Kenneth" sort of hair salons have vanished from UES of Manhattan it seems. Gone with their older clientle still wedded to weekly wash, sets, and comb outs. OTOH there are tons of DryBar places, or just hair salons that do regular wash, cuts, blow dry and color. Key today is finding someone that is good at what you want done; that is if you need color, you want someone who is a master at doing.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | March 25, 2020 2:20 PM |
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Is correct, elevators have been installed in townhouses going back to the 1950's or even well before. Not everyone has the stamina to travel up and down several flights of stairs many times per day.
Much like those stair chairs that glide up and down elevators made it possible for elderly, or maybe handicapped to remain in their townhouse/mansion instead of going into a nursing home or perhaps apartment building. We see in Brideshead Revisited Lord Marchmain too ill for climbing all those stairs to reach his bedroom, orders one created on ground floor instead. Had there been an elevator none of that nonsense would be necessary.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | March 25, 2020 2:29 PM |
It's 2020. Unless you're an actress making a period drama, what woman "sets" her hair anymore?
Women will drop bucks on a good cut and color (and, shudder, extensions), and go for blowouts. But they don't have their hair "done" every week anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 25, 2020 3:10 PM |
Gross when you think of it; their hair was washed only once a week. I recall an interview with Vidal Sassoon who said he remembered when women came in with head lice.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 25, 2020 3:17 PM |
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You'd be surprised.
Many AA women still do or get roller sets. Have a AA guy friend who is a hairdresser and he does several a month. Many AA women and those in hair care industry feel roller sets are more gentle of black women's hair, especially if it is chemically relaxed than using blow dryer/curling or flat irons.
Dominican women still get roller sets as well; in fact all over Harlem and other places in NYC at least there are plenty of Dominican owned beauty shops that do roller sets.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | March 25, 2020 3:36 PM |
R151 -- Is what the Duchess of Sussex must do to achieve her hair do?
by Anonymous | reply 153 | March 25, 2020 3:42 PM |
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More frequent hair washing for women came about due to several factors. First and foremost invention of modern shampoo made the process a bit easier. Of course indoor plumbing complete with running hot and cold water helps as well.
Biggest change came of course with electricity and invention of various hair dryers. Blow dryers have been around since 1920's or so IIRC, invented in response to Bobbed hair.
Post WWI and onward however women started cutting their hair instead of letting it pretty much grow for their entire lives. Not having to deal with masses of hair certainly made care far easier.
The bouffant was nicknamed "rat's nest", and many women didn't like it at all. It had all same qualities of hair fashions from old France. Hair that was plastered into a complicated style that since it took ages to get done caused women to only wash their hair very in frequently.
Invention what we see today as modern hair care products and appliances allowed a majority of women to do their own hair at home. As more and more women began working outside the home or having otherwise busy lives the once a week wash and set that involved hours at beauty parlor faded. Women had better things to do with their spare time.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | March 25, 2020 3:46 PM |
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MM has taken to getting keratin straightening treatments to tame her hair into the glossy look we see today.
Now who blow dries that hair every day or so after shampooing do not know. Would assume MM does it herself as don't think she has a lady's maid skilled in hair styling.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | March 25, 2020 3:51 PM |
COVID-19 tests.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | March 25, 2020 3:52 PM |
The vogue for white/platinum blonde hair since the early 2000s is very much a decadent/monied thing (even though I loathe it and think it makes women look terribly cheap and trashy).
It takes a great deal of effort and money to get most hair that particular blonde (not yellow, not brassy, but vanilla blonde) and then to touch up roots, grow-out, etc. And to keep the hair long, straight, and well-conditioned.
A lot more than just a box of Nice-N-Easy and some rubber gloves, anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | March 25, 2020 4:01 PM |
I'd respect MM a lot more if she'd rock a 'fro.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | March 25, 2020 5:35 PM |
I have very wavy hair and it's simply not that easy to deal with. Maybe one time in ten (air-dried, not manipulated), my hair will look reasonably symmetrical and decent enough to wear confidently. My mom had very straight hair and could not understand why I was always doing stuff to my hair.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | March 25, 2020 9:39 PM |