The Life Of Luxury

It is always nice to see how the other half lives, takeAmerican households hit a high at the end of last
for instance there is theyear, increasing from $46.59 trillion in the third quarter
Life of Luxury: the George Hamilton way.of 2004 to $48.53 trillion in the fourth quarter.
This is a TV show which looks at the lives of theRising real estate and stock prices helped push the
Super Rich in which the first episode looks at thecountry's household net worth up 4% between the
PlayBoy Mansion, a collection of multi-million dollarthird and fourth quarters. You can now buy a
homes, hip-hop half-billion dollar empires and some$67,000 hand-crafted bathtub; Luxury is no longer
queens of shopping.confined to the affluent.
Tom Delay's Life of Luxury over the last six years:To enhance people's lives they are willing to pay
Public documents reviewed by The Associated Pressmore for luxury items like expensive perfumes and
document his 48 visits to golf clubs and resorts; 100designer handbags. Sometimes it's hard to justify
flights aboard private company planes; 200 stays atspending much more on an item when something
hotels, many world-class; and 500 meals atconsiderably less expensive offers the same
restaurants, some averaging nearly $200 for a dinnerfunctionality.
for two. Not all paid for by Tom Delay.You can, for instance, buy a watch for $10 and you
ARCHESTRATUS: THE LIFE OF LUXURYcan buy a watch for $20,000 that offers the exact
ARCHESTRATUS was a Sicilian Greek who wrote asame functionality so where is the rationale for
poem that was an actual cookbook describing stylesbuying the expensive watch? Still, the expensive
of Greek food in antiquity In travelling throughout thewatches get sold and people are proud to own them.
Greek world - Greece, Southern Italy and Sicily, theThe exclusive maker of mattresses for the British
coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea - Archestratusroyal family will reject a container of cashmere if it is
shows us how the ancient Greeks were extremelydeemed to be clumpy or defective in any way, says
cosmopolitan.the director for the American division.
His influences - ingredients, combinations of flavours,For each bed, workers cover thousands of springs in
techniques - are drawn from a wide Mediterraneancalico cotton; the damask cases are hand-woven in
background, taking in a diversity of ideas unrestrictedBelgium If you have to ask how much these
by the topography of the Greek mainland.mattresses cost you can't afford them.
The Life of Luxury: Check out the Robb Report:Life of Luxury: living on your own Cruise Ship
Luxury HomesThe World is the only private luxury community at
The Robb Report features this Beverly Hills house.sea. It is a Cruise Ship built with apartments and
The owners, a retired industrialist and his wife, who isstudios for long term residency rather than vacation
a trustee of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporarycruises.
Art, wanted the architect to maintain a simple paletteFor sale originally were 106 apartments, 19 studio
that would not compete with their art collection,apartments and 40 studios, with square footage
which includes a beautiful collection of contemporarystarting at 675 for studios and maxing out at 3,242
art.for a three bedroom apartment with optional jet
The Life of Luxury's Most Expensive ZIP Codespool. With the exception of studios, which have more
From Beverly Hills to TriBeCa, from notoriouslimited amenities, The World's residential
enclaves of mansions and lush lawns to little-knownaccommodations include fully-equipped kitchens, living
niches of wealth, this is where the most expensiveroom, veranda and all furniture and audio/video
real estate in the country can be found.equipment.
Many of these neighborhoods are rarified places, ofStudios and Apartments can be had from 1.4 million
course. They are close to beaches and golf coursesto 4.8 million dollars and annual maintenance costs
and prime yacht moorings--or at least within spittingstart at $100,000.
distance of the power centers that are the sourcesThis is a 40,000-ton ship which could easily carry
of great wealth. they have high tax bases, expensive1,500 passengers but the World Residensea carries
private schools, exclusive restaurants and they arean average of 285 guests plus a crew of 252.
not all located close to Rodeo Drive.The passenger distribution is about 40% Americans,
The Life of Luxury; Some Expensive Must-Have40% Europeans and 20% from other nations. The
Itemsprice of a "home" on board the ship includes furniture,
We must be getting richer. Designer items areappliances, carpet, draperies, linen, china, cutlery and
becoming more and more popular, we are no longercrystal. Maintenance charges will cover daily
happy with a cheap watch but want an Omega or ahousekeeping service, repairs and replacement of
Tag Heuer.appliances, fixtures and fittings supplied by the builder.
According to the Federal Reserve, the net wealth of