Tasteful friends,

This has been on her market for years and discussed on DL several times. My thoughts are not my cup of tea. It needs a big extended family to add any life to its tacky splendor.

It looks like it was decorated by Teresa Guidice with help from Carmela Soprano.

Is this a hotel? Fucking ugly with all that marble.

What’s up with the replica of an Ancient Roman forum with stuffed animals?

Why is there a green-floored crematorium room?

Why?

I can just marginally understand the surfeit of indoor water holes, even the scale model of a temple, but, but, but… not the crematorium.

Persians

I need someone to explain this house to me room by room. I'm very confused.

Jackson Pollock on acid.

Italians, Russians, or Persians - it's hard to determine which one.

It's one of the tackiest things I have ever seen. I kind of love it

Gatsby.

Given that it's Great Neck, R9, my bet would be on Persians.

^^Persians of the Mosaic persuasion to be exact

What don't you understand? No "in" on what's going on here, at all?

It's a quite dynamic and bravura execution of sea-side luxury splendor. It's both horribly tacky and a mishmash of references, yet also delightfully cheery.

That's why I said it would be something if filled with a raucous happy clan.

Jesus Christ! Interior design isn't supposed to hurt people's eyes!

R14, but what is this? And why is it there?

And this?

R16 Maybe it's some kind of pizza oven?

The Stuffed Animals In The Roman Temple tableau (you need to blow it up to fully appreciate it) may be the best thing I've ever seen on a Datalounge Tasteful Friends thread

And this? What is it?

R16 = Walk-in pizza oven

R17 = Home mikvah

R15 - well, you're wrong. Have you never visited, say Marble House, or Mar-a-Lago? The Marble House stair and hall is NOT in good taste. And the color is assaulting in person, not to mention dark for a sea-side palace.

Actually, that may be the home mikvah R20 and R17 is just an indoor shark tank

Jesus H Christ learn how to post pics on DL.

I love the she shells shairs!

How did they get permission to build the pool in the lake?

It's Mickey Mouse's east coast digs.

I like this room.

Pass.

R16. That’s the period hut, silly.

I think the crematorium/pizza oven is a salt sauna. That’s my guess anyway.

Everything about the place is so tacky, but it looks like a fun place to live. If I could afford the property (and the upkeep) I think I would live there. I would need a helicopter to take me to work every day though. The drive to the city would kill me before the tacky decor would.

You all need to really drill into the Stuffed Animals In The Roman Temple Tableau at R19

• The animals are all either bears or monkeys and they do not appear to be fighting each other (there is a donkey and a pig too, serving as domestic animals, while the monkeys and bears are assuming anthropomorphized roles)

• Some appear to be working, some eating, some are having an assembly of sorts and some are waging battle.

• The details is extraordinary in all the little rooms.

• There are monkeys and bears on the roof of the temple as well, the three on the left appear to be playing some sort of trumpet.

[quote] Gatsby

I was thinking the same thing R11. I’m pretty sure the exterior shots from Baz Luhrmann’s film were shot here.

And yet, r32, all the animals appear to be naked! So vulgar!

Untrue R34

A number of the ones on the second level, the bears in particular, over by the columns, appear to be wearing togas.

I wonder if the owner put all those toy scenes together themselves or did they hire someone to do it.

“And yet, [R32], all the animals appear to be naked! So vulgar!”

I am engorged.

Beautiful exterior But the rooms don’t make any sense

My husband, who is as fascinated by the Stuffed Animal Temple as I am, has pointed out that at the very far left of the photo you can see part of the Eiffel Tower.

So perhaps, we are thinking, the temple is in Roman Gaul.

If I remember correctly, it was built in age of great Long Island estates. So the modern veneer is on top of old ersatz. It was once listed at 100 million and was owned by a Russian "banker".

It has a video!

There are some bear and monkey shepherds in the room at lower left with lot of lambs, though there does not appear to be anything Nativity-esque about the scene.

(We think. Those may also be puppies, not lambs. It's hard to tell, but given the way the bear shepherd is holding one of them, lambs seems more likely. There's also a monkey playing the pipes, which would also read shepherd.)

Google the intersection of Rodney Lane and Pond Road in Kings Point, NY

Tear-down!

oops, I made a big mistake.

Hooooollllyyy SHIT! It’s hideous!

Imagine the multitude of russians deprived of a decent life to enable this robber-baron the opportunity to build perhaps the atrocious home ever seen!

[quote]Persians

Persian Jews.

Great Neck.