[2021: Liam somehow becomes immoderately rich]
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[2021: Liam somehow becomes immoderately rich]
Right, architect, I've bought a lot in a leafy suburb, here's my design pitch, you make it happen
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Scale by Louis Sullivan, aesthetics by Mikoyan-Gurevich, interiors by Kandinsky. Here's a bucket of money. Come and see me when the Council has an injunction from the court'
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'I want Michael Bay to look at this house and say, huh, that's cool, but isn't it a bit over the top?'
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Compulsory reading on plutocracy: Dictator Chic https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877.
It's actually kind of telling that Calombaris, for all his showmanship and arrogance, when it came down to it was just insufferably conformist-bourgeois in the worst eastern suburbs Melbourne way
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Millionaires should want, and this should be an entry criterion, a terrifying and beyond-human-scale complex that you could imagine dwarfing some 20-year old US Army grunt billeted there, boots on the table, after the end of the war. 'Hey mom, I'm doing great! Look at the digs they've put me up in!' That kind of thing.
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@liamvhogan there is one level of wealth architecture, that results in houses where passers-by start thinking hard thoughts about the maximum tax rate. There is another where the Americans open a file on you at Langley, based purely on the gaucheness of your taste, and that’s the one our plutocrats should aspire to