Wretched Excess

[ellid]

The dining room at Marble House, a Vanderbilt "summer cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island.

No, I don't know why someone who looks like the bastard offspring of Charles II and Tiny Tim is overlooking the festivities. Maybe he's hungry?

Comments

[xochiquetzl]

It's horrifying. I mean, there's excess, and then there's excess that looks like a bottle of Pepto Bismal threw up. This is the latter.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

I've always been reminded of the interior of a well marbled medium rare steak.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Bad Taste, thy name is Victorian nouveau riche.

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

And just as in Louis IVths time, we're about 2 generations from storming the Bastille, if the country doesn't liberalize before it separates into economic extremes.

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Whatever they were paying for, it wasn't good taste... And we think we're bad at conspicuous consumption.