Tasteful Friends - tacky penthouse in my home town

Link

No pics of bathrooms or bedrooms?

Why is there a car in the penthouse!!

The only nice thing is the view from the balcony, as I'm jumping to my DEATH to get the FUCK out of that ugly home.

How much do you think?

Down in the depths (of bad taste) on the 90th floor

What's the ring above the table?

Highrise views to die for but otherwise absolutely hideous.

Exactly R7!!

Residence? Looks like a club from the 90s

[quote]Why is there a car in the penthouse!!

R3 apparently that car has actually been converted into a bed, with a drinks fridge where the engine used to be. A waste of a nice old 59 Chev BelAir (apart from the hideous wheels on it). It was helicoptered into location

R4 I dont know how much, but according to the article linked below estimates are around $10 million NZ (roughly $7-8 million US I think) That is a very nice apartment building, the rest of which is actually quite tastefully done for a modern building and is mostly done in quite nice Art Deco style, its one of the few decent pieces of modern architecture we have.

I wouldnt pay anything near that as it would cost millions to put right, but I'm sure some Middle Eastern millionaire will snap it up, they usually have awful taste and shitloads of money

R6 the ring above the table is actually a strikingly hideous light fitting

I thought NZ had restrictions on foreign property buyers?

R11 it did have some, believe they're gone now, and dont think they'd have applied to a property of this value, they were to stop foreign buyers buying up ordinary family homes, which this isnt

(Mostly) beautiful views wasted on dumbass people. It looks like the perfect place for a Ben Affleck, Matthew Perry, or Tobey Maguire-type to party without boundaries. Or consequences?

Glory days, everything looks plastic. Whoever was the Interior decorator needs chucking off the balcony into Kitchener Street.

Gold bars can buy nice condos, but they can’t always buy good taste.

Reminds me of Vanilla Sky.

Too much to unpack—it's like a semiotically overdetermined music video from the 90s. The car with DIVORCE license plates. The Picassos (surely prints?). The "wet look" floors indoors and out. The stepped pyramid looming above (ready for some arcane ritual involving Sigourney Weaver?). The "onyx" surfaces everywhere. The ring-shaped group seating outside and the indoor bucket chairs. As someone noted upthread, the refusal to hint at spaces for sleeping or bathing. And the overall drama of this couple restlessly sweeping through, navigating the low-hanging lighting fixtures and launching their gaze into the Auckland twilight.

LazyBoy recliners, arranged in a semicircle, each one a different color leather. Who does that?

When the first word of a story is "iconic," I want whatever is being mentioned to burn down in order to start reigning in this particular language cliche.

Is EVERYONE on DL a drip?

I for one think it's the pinnacle of taste.

Is that a stripper pole??

^yes

[quote]The stepped pyramid looming above

R17 that's actually just the top of the building - when you see it from a distance it actually makes more sense, its an Art Deco inspired design and actually a rather nice building for a modern design

R20 either you're taking the piss or you got shit taste. If its the latter may I recommend Dubai as a travel destination, be just your cup of tea!

R21 YES! That IS a stripper pole, your eyes do not deceive you

R18 That’s for my circle jerk room!

Why all the recliners? Was this some fetish with Burt Ward that went unchecked?

I thought it couldn't get worse with the stripper pole but then there was the visual of the white, black and red Lazy Boy recliners around it, you picture them gawking at the poor stripper and doing lines underneath that ring light fixture. Maybe someone falls off the balcony. Surely Patrick Bateman could do better!

It's like AI generated except it's actually real.