Posted on 11/04/2012 10:46:50 AM PST by raybbr
The New York Times points out that while Mayor Michael Bloomberg digs run-of-the-mill cocktail food, like plain old tuna on plain old crackers, he likes really expensive art. And spectacular chandeliers. Not to mention a million dollar couch. Yes, you read that right.
Interior photos of the billionaire’s Manhattan town house and his house in Cadogan Square, London were featured on his interior designer’s website. They were pulled on Monday, but not before an antiques dealer took a virtual tour.
The Times reports on the mayor's “positively baronial” design taste:
In the New York town house, the photos show that visitors are greeted by what appeared to be, in the eyes of one antiques dealer, a Dutch old master painting, an English Regency table that could be worth $90,000 and sconces that could go for $40,000 each. In another room sits what the dealer said was a $1 million Georgian Chippendale couch beneath what appeared to be an 18th-century portrait by a prominent painter like Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough, which might be worth $450,000. Throughout the house are more sconces and chandeliers valued in the five or six figures, the dealer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Link to NY Times article... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/nyregion/a-glimpse-at-bloombergs-lavish-tastes-at-home.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&ref=nyregion&
He has a $50,000 snooker table, which is appropriate, as he has completely snookered the people of NYC;)
While the Rothschilds looted the French populace with predatory banking practices, they lived better then any French King had. But they kept it quiet, lest the peasants show up with pitchforks.
Bloomberg's from the same gang. He knows the game. Endorsing Hussein is his way of taking the focus off himself and who he really is. You know: if he really gave a damn about the "little people", he'd donate his billions today and take a vow of poverty, instead of babbling about how everyone else has to pony up.
Let the Joker explain his jokes to the peasants. See if they park the pitchforks...or stick them in him.
I don’t know. Really?
Are we going to join the”Rich people are bad” crowd.
I don’t car one slight bit how much money he or anyone has.
He is not leading NY in a good way nor at all.
He should have told the whiners of the Marathon and their sponsors. He lives with and works for them.
they are as tone deaf as he is.
Bloomberg can easily get out and about and visit the people for whom he swore to work. His money does not prevent that. He could do that with a million dollar couch. I don;t care.
People are not yet gods. They are influenced by what they do. And buying and putting a million dollar couch under one's own rear end is about as blatant a possible statement about the poor that can be made.
Which would be one thing if the sneering billionaire was off somewhere on his own. But when he's the mayor of NYC, anyone who can't see that as a frightening reflection of a tyrannical despot is in some serious denial.
He chooses to be a tyrannical despot.
I have no interest in what he does with his money, and I don’t expect him nor anyone to care what I do with mine.
Won’t engage in class warfare.
He saved the people from the evils of a 32 0z. Big Gulp.
Bloomers is a special kinda rich guy. He acts like he’s a royal (global) elitist; not an American-American successful man.
Banning large sodas and self defense, etc. while calling to conduct the marathon before the peasants even have lights back on after a disaster, is the act of a in-bred pinhead.
Bloomers is a special kinda rich guy. He acts like he’s a royal (global) elitist; not an American-American successful man.
Banning large sodas and self defense, etc. while calling to conduct the marathon before the peasants even have lights back on after a disaster, is the act of a in-bred pinhead.
Bloomers is a special kinda rich guy. He acts like he’s a royal (global) elitist; not an American-American successful man.
Banning large sodas and self defense, etc. while calling to conduct the marathon before the peasants even have lights back on after a disaster, is the act of a in-bred pinhead.
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