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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 19

1863 – Ogden Codman, Jr. was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897).

Codman spent his youth from 1875 to 1884 at Dinard, an American resort colony in France, and on returning to America in 1884, studied at the MIT. Wharton became one of his first Newport clients for her home there, Land's End. Subsequently she introduced Codman to Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who hired him to design the second and third floor rooms of his Newport summer home, The Breakers.

In 1907, Codman built the Codman-Davis House in Washington, D.C. for his cousin Martha Codman, one of the few intact homes that he designed. This included a carriage house, now the Apex Night Club, ironically a gay club.

Although a noted homosexual, on 8 October, 1904, Codman married one of his commissioners, Leila Griswold Webb, widow of railroad magnate H. Walter Webb, who died unexpectedly in 1910.

In 1920, Codman left New York to return to France, where he spent the rest of his life at the Château de Grégy, wintering at Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer: it is his masterpiece, the fullest surviving expression of his esthetic.

1897 – The Missouri Supreme Court upholds a conviction for assault to commit sodomy of a St. Louis police officer who attempted sodomy with another male after threatening to arrest him unless he accompanied him to a lumber yard, where the attempt was made.

1900 – An Ohio newspaper reports that a man was arrested for sex with his 13-year-old male companion. Both claim that the younger partner's mother "gave" him to the other.

Ray Stevens & Pat Paterson (R)

1941 – Born: Pierre Clermont, better known by his ring name Pat Patterson, was a Canadian former professional wrestler (d.2020). Pat was 17 when he started wrestling. He soon became one of the biggest names in the sixties and seventies. He worked for WWE as a creative consultant. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996.

Outside of the wrestling ring, Pat was really timid and shy. He was soft-spoken, with a cute French accent. Surprisingly, Pat was a former altar boy and candidate for the priesthood. He was a deeply religious man.

Pat Patterson debuted in Montreal, Quebec in 1958 as "Pretty Boy" Pat Patterson, an effeminate wrestler who wore red lipstick and pink trunks and was accompanied by his pet Poodle.

A Young Pat Patterson

Patterson wrestled frequently for affiliates of the National Wrestling Alliance throughout the 1960s, and was a ten time tag team champion in San Francisco with a variety of partners. His most famous pairing was with Ray Stevens, the two of them forming the heel tag team, the Blond Bombers.

Patterson was openly gay, although he had never stated so. It is rumored that Pat and Gerald Brisco, another of his wrestling partners, were lovers. In 1992, Patterson was accused of sexual harassment by former ring announcer Murray Hodgson and released from the company until the charges were dropped, when he was promptly rehired. After dropping the charges, Hodgson's attorney referred to Hodgson as "a lifelong con man."

In August 2006, Patterson underwent emergency heart surgery. In October, Patterson recovered from his operation and was released from the hospital.

On June 12, 2014, Patterson officially "came out" on TV. The video link is below:

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Although Patterson was openly gay, having come out in the 1970s, his sexual orientation was never directly acknowledged on television until 2014 when he spoke about it on a WWE-produced reality TV show.

Louie Dondero, Patterson's longtime partner of 40 years, died of a heart attack in 1998. Patterson himself died in December 2020.

1950 – Randy Price is a television newscaster with WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, after being the lead anchor at WHDH-TV from 1998 to 2009. He is considered the U.S.'s first openly gay newscaster.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Price attended Louisiana State University, where he began his broadcasting career in college radio, which continued with a stint in the U.S. Air Force, with Price working for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

He worked in television in Bakersfield, California (KERO-TV) and Toledo, Ohio (WTVG), before moving to Boston's WBZ-TV in 1983 where he anchored for 12 years. He left WBZ in 1995 due to alcohol problems which included a drunk driving conviction.

Price joined WHDH-TV in 1996 as a freelance reporter, and in 1997 was made a full-time anchor. He moved into the morning anchor chair and then was promoted to anchor the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. On February 6, 2009, Price was let go from WHDH-TV. His last newscast was on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. On February 7, 2009 The Boston Globe quoted Price that station owner, Edmund Ansin, had told him "we need to move in different directions."

On June 2, 2009, Price was named morning anchor at WCVB-TV, Channel 5 in Boston.

Price is openly gay and on January 3, 2007 he married longtime partner Mark Steffen in a ceremony on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts. They live in Kittery, Maine.

The Johns Committee in session

1959 – On this date investigators summoned the University of Florida Geography professor Sigmund Diettrich to the Manor Motel in Gainesville, Florida for "interviewing". Soon after, he was fired from his job and lost the life he loved as a beloved teacher and dean. He attempted suicide the same day he was let go from U.F. Hundreds of other professors and students across the state were also terminated or expelled because of their sexuality. Many people are familiar with the McCarthy hearings but do not realize that Florida had its own committee designed to weed out communism and homosexual activity. State Senator Charley Johns started the investigations to "protect Florida's children."

The Johns Committee pursued people in academic institutions, courthouse bathrooms and bus stations. The committee's investigators went so far as tapping phones in motels, interrogating children as young as 10, and breaking up a teenage girl's slumber party looking for evidence of moral misconduct. In 1993 more than 30,000 pages of secret documents became public, including a University of Florida administrator's statement that there was no way to prevent Gay men from lingering in university bathrooms "unless you pour sulfuric acid on the floor to make people go fast."

1982 – Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. He is the first openly gay person to seek the Democratic nomination, and has built his campaign around the idea of generational change. He launched his campaign on April 14, 2019, after forming an exploratory committee in January. Initially considered a long shot, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town halls, forums, and debates. As of December 2019, several media outlets consider him one of four "top-tier candidates".

Buttigieg served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana from January 2012 to January 2020. Before running for office, he worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry. He was defeated in the 2010 election for Indiana State Treasurer before being elected mayor of South Bend, Indiana the following year, becoming the youngest mayor of a city with a population of over 100,000. In 2015, Buttigieg publicly came out as gay. Later that year, he was reelected with over 80% of the vote. In 2017, he ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

From 2009 to 2017, he served as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. In 2014, he was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a consultant at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He attended the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship.

In a June 2015 piece in the South Bend Tribune, Buttigieg came out as gay. By coming out, Buttigieg became Indiana's first openly gay elected executive. He was the first elected official in Indiana to come out while in office, and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out. Buttigieg is also the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, and the second overall, after Republican Fred Karger, who ran in 2012.

In December 2017, Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a junior high school teacher. They had been dating since August 2015 after meeting on the dating app Hinge. They were married on June 16, 2018, in a private ceremony at the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. James. As of April 2019 Chasten uses his husband's surname, Buttigieg.

Buttigieg announced that he and his husband had become parents on August 17, 2021. Buttigieg announced that they had adopted two newborn fraternal twins on September 4, 2021.

In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a watershed moment in the LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named him one of its "Pride50" people identified as "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people."

President-elect Biden named Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in December 2020. His nomination was confirmed on February 2, 2021, by a vote of 86–13, making him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Nominated at age 38, he is also the youngest Cabinet member in the Biden administration and the youngest person ever to serve as Secretary of Transportation.

2004 – Ian Iqbal Rashid releases his movie Touch of Pink. Multi-talented Rashid is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the BBC TV series This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.

Of Indian ancestry and Ismaili Muslim religion, Rashid's family lived in colonial East Africa for generations. Ian was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Different years of birth are given for Rashid in different sources, but academic work gives the year as 1968. In 1970, his family was forced to leave Tanzania. After failing to secure asylum in the UK and US, they settled in Toronto.

Rashid began his career as an arts journalist and critic and events programmer, particularly focussed on South Asian diasporic, Muslim and LGBTQ cultural work.

In the early 1990s, Rashid returned to London, Britain, where he lives today with his partner, the writer, curator, and academic Peter Ride.

In the late 1980s, Rashid was a regular contributor to the Canadian LGBT magazine Rites. Rashid published his first poetry collection, Black Markets, White Boyfriends and Other Acts of Elision, in 1991. Two more followed: the chapbook Song of Sabu in 1993 and The Heat Yesterday in 1995.

His poems "Another Country", "Could Have Danced All Night", "Hot Property" and "Early Dinner, Weekend Away" appear in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, and others were included in the 2009 anthology Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets.

Self-taught as a film-maker, in 1991, Rashid made the short film Bolo Bolo! with Kaspar Saxena. The film, part of an HIV/AIDS cable access series called Toronto Living With AIDS, resulted in the series being pulled from Rogers Television after complaints about sexually suggestive content, though it had a long and healthy life at film festivals.

Rashid went on to write two award-winning short films, Surviving Sabu (1999), and Stag (2001).

Touch of Pink, Rashid's first feature film, spent 12 years in development. In 2003, he finally had the chance to direct the project as a Canada-UK co-production. It premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim, a bidding war, and eventually, a sale to Sony Picture Classics. The film has attracted extensive scholarly commentary.

How She Move received a similar reception at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Rashid in 2007, the film is set in the world of step dancing. It was nominated for a Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and purchased by Paramount Vantage. The film opened to positive reviews and strong box office.

Rashid began working as a writer in UK television in the late 1990s. His credits include the soap London Bridge (Carlton Television for ITV) and the cult hit BBC2 series This Life, for which he received the Writer's Guild of England award.

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jonathanmorse · 10 months

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Such light is not needful in a drawing-room

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses. This (Scribners, 1897) was Wharton’s first book. To be noted is that she was a dog person, not a cat person.

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habituallychic · 3 years

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Took a tour of the new @salon94 location on 89th Street in the old home of the @natlacademy today. Niki de Saint Phalle is not my style but sometimes it’s good to get out of your comfort zone. The historic building designed by Ogden Codman Jr. from 1913-15 is definitely my jam though. I look forward to checking back when the renovation is completely finished. #salon94 #nikidesaintphalle #ogdencodman #uptowndoesitbetter #uppereastside #nyc (at Salon 94) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM8EQ-yD1TH/?igshid=1uhm4l2y65rkc

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Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: 1. Frontispiece “She had meant to wait for him on the Terrace. Walter Appleton Clark” from Crucial Instances / Sanctuary By Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914. 2. Title page from The Greater Inclination By Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899. 3. Title page from The Decoration of Houses By Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. 4. Title page from The Touchstone By Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.

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Elsie de Wolfe “I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint, comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they ‘belong,’ mirrors and sunshine in all rooms.” - Elsie de Wolfe, America’s first decorator. Elsie de Wolfe’s success at decorating the ‘Colony Club’ - which opened its doors in 1907 - opened more doors for her. She spent the following six years (until her meeting with Henry Clay Frick) designing more clubs, a number of private houses, both on the East Coast and in California, a model house (with Ogden Codman Jr.), opera boxes and a dormitory at ‘Barnard College’; she also lectured and published her most influential book ‘The House in Good Taste’. By that time she had a suite of offices and a showroom on Fifth Avenue, with a staff of secretaries, bookkeepers, and assistants. She even had imitators. The most significant commission in this period of de Wolfe’s career was for the Manhattan mansion of industrialist, art collector and Francophile - Henry Frick. Frick wanted to build his own Manhattan residence and settled upon a block along the crest of Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st streets. De Wolfe was responsible for designing 14 of the mansion’s rooms for her Frick and his wife Adelaide, including the art gallery, Adelaide’s boudoir and a library for the couple’s daughter, Helen. De Wolfe had already made several extended visits to France and the interiors she designed for the family were a distinctly French combination of luxury and comfort. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #motherofinteriordesign #rebelinanuglyworld #americasfirstdecorator #newyorkcity #elisabethbessiemarbury #colonyclub #thechintzlady #thehouseingoodtaste #ladymendl #elsiedewolfe (at USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY8pnxGIZSd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton; Codman, Ogden, Jr. $3.99

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That Ugly Fireplace Isn’t as Bad as You Think

“The fireplace must be the focus of every rational scheme of arrangement,” Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. wrote in their 1897 design classic, “The Decoration of Houses.”

Not much has changed since then. Fireplaces are usually the dominant element in rooms lucky enough to have them, and the anchor around which furnishings are organized. In fact, most fireplaces refuse to be ignored, whether they’re beautiful or ugly. And therein lies the problem: What if your fireplace is clad in dated tile or discolored brick, or your mantel looks out of proportion or out of place?

Giving a fireplace a new look may seem daunting, but it’s not as hard as it sounds.

“It’s an architectural ornament that’s changeable,” said Thomas Jayne, an interior designer in New York and the author of “Classical Principles for Modern Design,” a book on applying Wharton and Codman’s ideas to contemporary interiors.

Transforming the appearance of a fireplace is usually well worth the time and expense, he said, because “if you like your fireplace, you’ll like your whole room a lot better.”

We asked Mr. Jayne and other designers for advice on how to deal with a problematic fireplace.

Consider What You Have

It’s easy to write off old mantels and surrounds as unappealing when they’re damaged from years of abuse or covered in layers of soot, grime or caked paint.

But don’t automatically assume that you need to rip out or cover up what you’ve got. Instead, try to imagine what your fireplace would look like if it were restored.

“In a lot of projects, we start with ugly-looking fireplaces” that are actually beautiful underneath, said Andrea Fisk, who founded the Brooklyn-based architecture firm Shapeless Studio with Jess Thomas Hinshaw.

“A lot of them have just been painted over and over and over,” Ms. Thomas Hinshaw said, “so that they’ve lost a lot of the detailing and character.”

When Ms. Fisk and her life partner bought a rundown townhouse of their own in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, it had a dreary-looking living room fireplace covered in dirty cream-colored paint. But rather than immediately removing the mantel, Ms. Fisk performed a careful investigation.

“We really had no idea what was under there,” she said. They couldn’t even tell whether the mantel was stone or wood. With a chemical paint remover, she stripped away layers of paint and was astonished by what she found: a stunning mantel of green and gray slate with hints of pink and carved floral details.

“That was a wonderful surprise,” she said.

Not only did she keep it — after removing every trace of the old paint, of course — she also based the color palette of the room on it.

Paint It

There’s a reason old mantels are often thick with layers of paint: It’s one of the easiest and least expensive ways to change the look of a fireplace. When done well, with an appropriate amount of paint — not gobs, which can clump, drip and look unsightly — painting can be surprisingly effective.

Susana Simonpietri, owner and creative director of the Brooklyn-based design firm Chango & Co., occasionally paints brick fireplaces white for a crisp, fresh look. Recently, she did so while renovating a 1970s house in East Hampton, N.Y., which had a two-sided fireplace between the living and dining rooms made from orangy brick that neither she nor her clients liked.

“We painted the outside white and the inside of the fireplace black, for a lot of contrast,” she said.

It was as simple as covering the brick with a sealing primer, she said, and then applying several coats of Decorator’s White paint from Benjamin Moore. “The priming is very important,” she said. “If you don’t prime, the color from the bricks will bleed through.”

Almost any type of paint can be used on the outside of a fireplace, Ms. Simonpietri said, though she prefers an exterior-grade paint for durability. But inside the firebox, it’s important to use a special high-temperature paint that can withstand the heat.

A painted brick fireplace is easy to maintain, she said, even when it’s white: “All you have to do is hit it with another coat of paint when it gets dirty, over time, from the smoke.”

Change the Mantel

Replacing an existing mantel or chimney piece, or adding one where there was previously none, can immediately change the character of a fireplace.

A traditional fireplace can be made to look modern with the addition of a mantel composed of simple marble slabs, and a contemporary fireplace can be given a sense of age with a traditional wood mantel that has classical details.

“Changing the mantel itself is not that big a deal,” Ms. Simonpietri said, noting that they can usually be pried off the wall like trim. “Essentially, you are left with walls that need to be healed. If you’re a handy person, it’s a do-it-yourself project.”

Replacement mantels are widely available at a range of prices, from home improvement stores like the Home Depot to specialty manufacturers like Chesneys. And reclaimed mantels can be found at architectural salvage stores like Big Reuse, Olde Good Things and Demolition Depot and Irreplaceable Artifacts.

You can also build a custom mantel, like Vincent DiSalvo, a principal of DiSalvo Contracting in New York, frequently does for his clients.

Installing a new mantel is fairly straightforward, Mr. DiSalvo said, “as long as you work within the parameters of code requirements,” and size it properly to fit the existing opening. Combustible materials — like a wood mantel — must be at least six inches back from the sides of a wood-burning firebox, he said, and “the horizontal piece that runs across the top of the firebox should be around 12 inches” above the opening, depending on how far the mantel projects off the wall.

The resulting gap between the firebox and mantel creates another design opportunity, he noted, and can be finished with distinctive ceramic tile or stone.

Install a Creative Surround

Of course, not every fireplace needs to be finished with a conventional mantel. There are countless creative alternatives.

When Mr. Jayne renovated a house for clients in Oyster Bay, N.Y., he designed a tall box clad in Delft tiles to surround the fireplace.

“Rather than just having a fireplace with a row of Delft tiles and a pretty 19th-century wood molding around it, we tried to modernize it and make it more contemporary,” he said.

Sometimes, Mr. Jayne eliminates a ledge or shelf above the fireplace altogether, as he did in the library of an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. There, he removed the existing “pseudo Georgian Revival” mantel and clad the wall around the fireplace in colorful mosaic tile — a design loosely inspired by a fireplace in a dining room designed by Stanford White at Kingscote, a 19th-century house in Newport, R.I.

For a more monolithic appearance, a fireplace can be resurfaced in concrete or natural stone in the same way. If you use natural stone, though, choose a dark one, like slate, rather than a light one, like white marble, Mr. DiSalvo advised: “You want to select a stone that isn’t easily stained by soot. A darker-colored stone holds up better over time.”

Or Transform the Whole Wall

Attacking the mantel or the area immediately around the fireplace sometimes isn’t enough. In that case, the whole wall that houses the fireplace may need attention.

When Shapeless Studio renovated a Brooklyn apartment that had an especially unappealing brick wall with a fireplace, they built a new wall with drywall in front of it, floor to ceiling, to conceal the entire expanse.

That slightly reduced the footprint of the living room, but it created a cleaner look and the opportunity to add a beefy custom limestone mantel. The architects also used the thickness of the new wall to create recessed storage nooks on either side of the fireplace.

Linc Thelen, a Chicago-based designer, used a similar strategy to conceal a dated-looking rubble-stone feature wall with a fireplace when he renovated a house in rural Indiana.

“We had to reframe it,” he said, because there was no other reasonable way to remove or conceal the stone. After adding cement board to the framing for a smooth surface, he installed a linear arrangement of buff-colored manufactured stone veneer from Eldorado Stone on top.

“I wanted something that was minimal, but also warm and modern,” he said.

Building a second wall may seem somewhat extreme, but transforming the appearance of an unloved fireplace can pay big dividends. “The fireplace can help tie the whole house together,” Mr. Thelen said. “And it can say a lot about the personality of the person.”

There are also family traditions to consider, he added: “You can have Santa Claus coming down a stylish chimney.”

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12 Of The Most Expensive Houses In The World

Mentioning the word ‘Home’ evokes a sense of comfort and modesty. For most of us, it’s not the size that matters as much as the soothe and security, we feel within this place called home. Well, for those who are listed as the richest people on Earth, there’s more to a ‘home’, than just modesty and utility. To these, who ace the lists of ‘Forbes’ Top Billionaires’ and ‘The Most Expensive House In The World’, home is a place where they can spend most of their fortune, afford unimaginable luxuries and flaunt their wealth. For example, If you take a quick tour inside Donald Trump’s house, You’ll find nearly everything in gold. Also, The Bill Gates’ house where he has screens that display any desired painting, photo or artwork that cost $150,000. Best House in The World? Maybe! Let’s find out.

These billionaire homes are architectural expressions born out of extravagance and vanity. Their lavishness and exclusivity not only inspire commoners towards riches but also provide opportunities for experimentation, with some of the most expensive and uncommon technological innovations.

What’s The Most Expensive House in The World?

1. Antilia, Mumbai, India, owned by Mukesh Ambani

Like many billionaire families, Ambanis too wanted an opulently unique and customized residence. Thus began the conceptualization and construction of ‘Antilia’, designed by the firm Perkins and Will, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean. Costing over $1 billion and taking four-years to be constructed, Antilia now stands boastingly, amidst the slum-filled context of Mumbai. This 27-floor high residence, stacked to achieve an area of about 400,000 square feet, surpasses the Palace of Versailles in terms of area encompassed. With six levels of parking below the ground level, three helipads, a health spa, a salon, a ballroom, a 50-seat movie theater, multiple swimming pools, yoga and dance studios and an ice cream room, maintaining Antilia reportedly require a staff of about 600.

2. Villa Leopolda, Villefranche-sur-mer, France, owned by Lily Safra

Villa La Leopolda is a palatial villa, with cascading terraces, located in the Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera. Spread across 20 acres, this villa has a reputable history of owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak, Dorothy J. Killam. Since 1987 it was owned by a Swiss banker Edmond Safra, who passed it on to his survivor and mistress Lily Safra. The architectural character of this villa belongs to a historical style called Belle Époque which translates to ‘Beautiful Era’. Designed by an American architect named Jr. Ogden Codman, on an estate once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium.

3. Fair Field, Sagaponack, N.Y, owned by Ira Rennert

Ira Rennert, an American billionaire, owns this sprawling mansion, part of a 63-acre estate called Fair Field, one of the largest in the United States. It includes several built forms, has 29 bedrooms, 39-bathrooms, 3 dining rooms, 3 swimming pools and a 164-seat theatre. The estate also includes a recreation pavilion with basketball court, gym, two bowling alleys, two tennis courts, two squash courts and many other buildings. A residence of this size also requires an immense supply of electricity, which also is sufficed by an on-site power plant.

4. 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K, owned by Lakshmi Mittal

Steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, shares neighborhood with some of the world’s richest icons. London’s prime and priciest residential address i.e. Kensington Palace Gardens is also the second most expensive street in the world. Reportedly the average price per square meter here is $107,000. Laskshmi Mittal owns not one, but three palatial homes on this street numbered 9a and 18-19. The house was designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1845, as a pair of semi-detached ‘Palazzo’ style villas. Lakshmi spent millions to renovate and transform the renaissance styled mansion into “Taj Mittal”. With a total of 12 bedrooms, a pool, and Makrana marble, this mansion can be considered a pricey tribute to his Indian origins.

5. An apartment in One Hyde Park, London, U.K, owned by Rinat Akhmetov

Ukraine’s richest man and oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov spent a record-setting amount of £136.4m, to buy two of the world’s most expensive apartments, in Knightsbridge, London. This project by Richar Rogers, and his firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners encompasses an area of 25,000-square feet. Each of these apartments flaunts a 360º protection by bulletproof glass facades, exclusive interiors designed by Candy & Candy and sophisticated lighting systems by artist James Turrell, which gradually change the ambiance from sunset to sunrise.

6. Ellison Estate, Woodside, California, owned by Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison, co-founder, and chairman of Oracle, world’s fifth richest man and a famous property collector, built his Japanese-style estate in 2004, which took him 9 years to build. Modeled after a 1600 CE Japanese emperor’s palace, this mansion was designed and constructed by Paul Driscoll, a Zen Buddhist teacher, and architect. It includes three cottages, a gymnasium, eight bridges, two gardens, a five-acre man-made lake, a bathhouse and a koi pond. The landscape also includes expenses of cherry blossom, maple and other Japanese species along with pines, oaks and redwoods.

7. 16 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K, owned by Roman Abramovich

Another billionaire resident at the Kensington Palace Gardens street, Russian tycoon and the owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich owns this exuberant huge mansion. Despite the whopping price-tag, this London mansion falls short in terms of facilities and area. Hence Roman plans extend it underground, to accommodate a subterranean leisure complex with a tennis court, a health center and an auto museum.

8. Blossom Estate, Palm Beach, Florida, owned by Kenneth Griffin

Kenneth Griffin, an American hedge fund manager and the owner of Citadel LLC, bought four adjacent properties, for a total of nearly $130 mioms, six kitchens, a library and a full-fledged guest house.

9. Xanadu 2.0, Seattle, WA, owned by Bill Gates

The richest man in the world, Bill gates owns this simple looking, but an extravagantly architected mansion, on the edge of Lake Washington. Named Xanadu 2.0, this 66,000 sq. foot residence was designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Cutler Anderson Architects, built over a span of 7 years. The earth-sheltered mansion boasts of quite a many features apart from its sustainable design, including a high-tech sensory system changing the ambiance to suit the mood and timing, a pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500- square foot gym with a 20 feet high ceiling, 24 bathrooms, six kitchens, a library and a full-fledged guest house.

10. Silicon Valley Mansion, Los Altos Hills, CA, owned by Yuri Milner

Russian tycoon and an investor in Facebook, Yuri Milner, is a proud owner of his retreat home in California. This mansion resembling to a French chateau has plenty of indoor and outdoor pools, a luxurious ballroom and living areas which frame a panoramic view of the San Francisco Bay.

11. Broken O Ranch, Augusta, Montana, owned by Stanley Kroenke

Billionaire Stanley Kroenke bought this ranch for $132.5 Million. The estate includes an exclusive 10,000-square foot house with an indoor pool. As far as the ranch goes, it has multiple horse stables, nearly 4,500 cattle, extensive water rights and significant agricultural property.

12. 15 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K, owned by Tamara Ecclestone

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Vẻ đẹp lộng lẫy của ‘cung điện mùa hè’ The Breakers (P.1)

Dù không hoành tráng như cung điện Versailles của vua Louis XIV, Pháp, nhưng ý tưởng thiết kế thời Phục hưng của Ý và phong cách cổ điển trong trang trí cung điện vẫn khiến cho người xem không thể không ấn tượng với 'cung điện mùa hè’ The Breakers.

Một cung điện khác thường

Cung điện này nằm tại thành phố New York - là nơi nghỉ hè của Cornelius Vanderbilt II (một thành viên của gia đình Vanderbilt II), được xây dựng từ năm 1893 đến 1895 trên diện tích 14 mẫu đất nằm sát một vách đá. Cung điện nhìn ra bờ biển phía đông Đại Tây Dương. Người ta nói rằng vì luôn nghe tiếng sóng đập vào đá, cung điện này được đặt tên là The Breakers (có ý nghĩa là sóng vỡ khi va vào đá). Người thiết kế ngoại thất cho cung điện này là vị kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng Richard Morris Hunt (1827 - 1895); thiết kế nội thất do Jules Allard, Sons và Ogden Codman Jr. đảm nhiệm. Cung điện được xây dựng theo phong cách Phục Hưng nước Ý với 70 phòng với tổng diện tích là 11.644,4 mét vuông và không gian sống là 5.804,8 mét vuông.

[caption id=“attachment_1071027” align=“aligncenter” width=“444”] Kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng Richard Morris Hunt, John Singer Sargent vẽ năm 1895 (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

The Breakers là một trong những công trình nổi tiếng nhất được Richard Morris Hunter thiết kế để tôn vinh kiến trúc Beaux-Arts (phong cách trang trí cổ điển của Paris thế kỷ 19 - École des Beaux-Arts). Đây là tác phẩm cuối cùng của Hunter và là một trong số ít các tòa nhà còn sót lại của ông. Breakers được biết đến với những thành tựu kiến trúc hiếm có và nổi bật. Hunter cũng trưng bày sự giàu có, hy vọng vào sự lạc quan của Hoa Kỳ ở thời điểm đó dưới hình thức văn nghệ Phục hưng; ông được những người đương thời gọi là “Hiệu trưởng Học viện Kiến trúc Hoa Kỳ”.

Tòa nhà Breakers hoàn toàn phù hợp với sự hùng vĩ của một cung điện quý tộc, bên trong được trang trí bởi rất nhiều vàng bạc và đá cẩm thạch cùng một số đồ trang sức của châu Âu. Lấy cảm hứng thiết kế từ thời Phục hưng nước Ý, ngoại thất tinh tế và chi tiết khiến nó trở thành một mô hình kiểu mẫu cho cung điện thuộc “Thời đại hoàng kim” cổ điển ở Hoa Kỳ.

Đôi nét về chủ nhân của The Breakers: gia tộc Vanderbilt

Tổ tiên của gia đình Vanderbilt là những nông dân người Hà Lan. Trong thời kỳ vàng, gia đình này đã thu được khối tài sản kếch xù, nhanh chóng được nâng lên một địa vị xã hội nổi bật. Vanderbilt đã từng là gia đình giàu có nhất nước Mỹ. Trước khi qua đời, Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 -1877) là người giàu nhất nước Mỹ. Sau đó, con trai ông là William đã thừa kế tài sản của cha mình và cũng lại trở thành người giàu nhất nước Mỹ. Vinh quang của gia đình Vanderbilt chỉ kéo dài đến giữa thế kỷ 20, khi 10 cung điện ở Đại lộ thứ năm của gia đình bị phá hủy, hầu hết các ngôi nhà khác của dòng họ Vanderbilt đã được bán hoặc chuyển thành các viện bảo tàng.

Gia đình Vanderbilt mới đầu nổi lên nhờ công việc vận tải đường thủy và đường sắt, được biết đến với tuyến đường sắt trung tâm New York. Gia đình này sau đó đã càng trở nên giàu có nhờ mở rộng hoạt động sang các ngành công nghiệp khác và còn tham gia các tổ chức từ thiện .

[caption id=“attachment_1071028” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] Chủ sở hữu của Breakers - Cornelius Vanderbilt II (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

The Breakers thực ra là cung điện mùa hè được xây dựng cho đứa cháu ruột của Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt II (27 tháng 11 năm 1843 - 12 tháng 9 năm 1899). Cornelius Vanderbilt II là một nhân vật nổi tiếng trong xã hội, một người thừa kế và một doanh nhân người Mỹ. Năm 1885, ông kế nhiệm vị trí người đứng đầu tuyến đường sắt nối với tuyến đường sắt trung tâm New York.

Yếu tố nghệ thuật của cung điện The Breakers

The Breakers là khu nghỉ mát mùa hè của hai vợ chồng Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Nhiều trong số 70 phòng của cung điện là theo phong cách Phục hưng nước Ý; phòng ngủ của chủ nhà, phòng ăn sáng, v.v.. đều mang phong cách của cung điện vua Louis XIV, XV, XVI.

Mỗi căn phòng, mỗi bức tường, thậm chí mỗi góc của cung điện đều có rất nhiều chi tiết nhỏ được thiết kế tỉ mỉ. Các tác phẩm điêu khắc tinh tế, đèn chùm pha lê lớn, màu tường phòng và hình dáng đồ nội thất, bao gồm cả sự lựa chọn rèm cửa, đều tinh tế và tuyệt đẹp. Tòa nhà của cung điện rất tráng lệ, được đặt trên vùng đất tốt nhất, đã tạo được sự hoàn hảo theo yêu cầu của Vanderbilt II.

Vách đá bên sườn núi này đã bị phá hủy bởi một vụ hỏa hoạn vào năm 1892, nên tòa nhà theo phong cách Phục Hưng nước Ý như nhìn thấy hiện nay là được xây dựng lại vào năm 1895. Vanderbilt II qua đời ở tuổi 55 vào năm 1899, ngay sau khi ngôi nhà được xây dựng xong. Ông đã không được hưởng thụ nhiều thời gian trong khu nghỉ mát sang trọng mùa hè này của chính mình.

Dưới đây chúng ta hãy cùng nhìn một cách chi tiết hơn về kiến trúc huy hoàng lộng lẫy của tòa nhà này:

The Breakers được xây dựng theo phong cách Phục hưng Ý, đối xứng xung quanh sảnh trung tâm và được xây dựng bằng đá vôi vùng Indiana. Cung điện có năm tầng, với các phòng nhà chính để ở gồm ba tầng, thêm một tầng hầm và một tầng áp mái. Không có bộ phận nào bằng gỗ trong cấu trúc của tòa nhà, toàn bộ được dựng lên nhờ các kết cấu kèo thép, đá cẩm thạch và gạch.

Có một cổng vòm ở lối vào phía tây bắc của cung điện. Mặt tiền tòa nhà ngăn cách với các cửa ra vào ở tầng một bởi hàng cột, trong khi các cột giả được bố trí nằm giữa các cửa sổ. Khung cửa sổ bên ngoài của cung điện được trang trí bằng các mảng đá cẩm thạch tròn và hình chữ nhật, được tô điểm thêm bằng hình cây sồi và lá nguyệt quế.

[caption id=“attachment_1071029” align=“aligncenter” width=“700”] Về phía tây nam của cung điện, đối diện với những luống hoa tráng lệ. (Ảnh: UpstateNYer / Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]

Phía tây nam của cung điện đối diện với những vườn hoa tráng lệ. Ở trung tâm của khu vườn phía tây nam là một hình bán nguyệt nổi bật. Các luống hoa được thiết kế theo hình sao biển và vỏ sò; hình ảnh vị thần sông được trang trí trên cửa ở tầng một.

Mặt tiền phía đông nam đối diện với Đại Tây Dương được tạo ấn tượng bằng hai mái hiên bằng kính hai lớp. Trên tầng đầu tiên mang phong cách Dorian, với kí hiệu tên gia đình là chữ “V” trong Vanderbilt, được bao quanh bởi hình lá sồi và thủy tinh, đại diện cho những thành tựu của gia tộc Vanderbilt. Hunter đã sử dụng đá cẩm thạch của Ý để thêm một chút màu sắc, cùng kết hợp với màu vàng nhạt của đá vôi bên ngoài, và hình điêu khắc những chiếc đầu sư tử được xếp dọc theo đường mái của The Breakers, tạo vẻ uy nghi.

[caption id=“attachment_1071032” align=“aligncenter” width=“603”] Cánh cổng sắt rèn ở lối vào cung điện The Breakers. (Ảnh: Edmundmp / Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]

Cổng bằng sắt rèn ở lối vào chính của cung điện được chế tạo bởi công ty William Jackson, New York. Ngoài ra còn có hàng rào bằng sắt rèn xung quanh ba mặt của cung điện cũng là một trong những công trình sắt rất nghệ thuật. Trong cung điện còn có 56 tấm sắt dài 9,5m và cao 2,5m, được đặt giữa các trụ đá vôi lớn với những bức tường đá vôi cao 1,2m. Ngoài việc cách ly tiếng ồn, hệ thống này cũng làm tăng vẻ đẹp độc đáo của trang viên.

[caption id=“attachment_1071035” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Cột đèn bằng đồng kiểu Ý thời Phục hưng (Ảnh: fotolia)[/caption]

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Vẻ đẹp lộng lẫy của ‘cung điện mùa hè’ The Breakers (P.1)

Một cung điện khác thường

[caption id="attachment_1071027" align="aligncenter" width="444"] Kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng Richard Morris Hunt, John Singer Sargent vẽ năm 1895 (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

The Breakers là một trong những công trình nổi tiếng nhất được Richard Morris Hunter thiết kế để tôn vinh kiến trúc Beaux-Arts (phong cách trang trí cổ điển của Paris thế kỷ 19 - École des Beaux-Arts). Đây là tác phẩm cuối cùng của Hunter và là một trong số ít các tòa nhà còn sót lại của ông. Breakers được biết đến với những thành tựu kiến trúc hiếm có và nổi bật. Hunter cũng trưng bày sự giàu có, hy vọng vào sự lạc quan của Hoa Kỳ ở thời điểm đó dưới hình thức văn nghệ Phục hưng; ông được những người đương thời gọi là "Hiệu trưởng Học viện Kiến trúc Hoa Kỳ".

Tòa nhà Breakers hoàn toàn phù hợp với sự hùng vĩ của một cung điện quý tộc, bên trong được trang trí bởi rất nhiều vàng bạc và đá cẩm thạch cùng một số đồ trang sức của châu Âu. Lấy cảm hứng thiết kế từ thời Phục hưng nước Ý, ngoại thất tinh tế và chi tiết khiến nó trở thành một mô hình kiểu mẫu cho cung điện thuộc "Thời đại hoàng kim" cổ điển ở Hoa Kỳ.

Đôi nét về chủ nhân của The Breakers: gia tộc Vanderbilt

[caption id="attachment_1071028" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Chủ sở hữu của Breakers - Cornelius Vanderbilt II (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

Yếu tố nghệ thuật của cung điện The Breakers

Dưới đây chúng ta hãy cùng nhìn một cách chi tiết hơn về kiến trúc huy hoàng lộng lẫy của tòa nhà này:

[caption id="attachment_1071029" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Về phía tây nam của cung điện, đối diện với những luống hoa tráng lệ. (Ảnh: UpstateNYer / Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]

Mặt tiền phía đông nam đối diện với Đại Tây Dương được tạo ấn tượng bằng hai mái hiên bằng kính hai lớp. Trên tầng đầu tiên mang phong cách Dorian, với kí hiệu tên gia đình là chữ "V" trong Vanderbilt, được bao quanh bởi hình lá sồi và thủy tinh, đại diện cho những thành tựu của gia tộc Vanderbilt. Hunter đã sử dụng đá cẩm thạch của Ý để thêm một chút màu sắc, cùng kết hợp với màu vàng nhạt của đá vôi bên ngoài, và hình điêu khắc những chiếc đầu sư tử được xếp dọc theo đường mái của The Breakers, tạo vẻ uy nghi.

[caption id="attachment_1071032" align="aligncenter" width="603"] Cánh cổng sắt rèn ở lối vào cung điện The Breakers. (Ảnh: Edmundmp / Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1071035" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Cột đèn bằng đồng kiểu Ý thời Phục hưng (Ảnh: fotolia)[/caption]

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Vẻ đẹp lộng lẫy của ‘cung điện mùa hè’ The Breakers (P.1)

Dù không hoành tráng như cung điện Versailles của vua Louis XIV, Pháp, nhưng ý tưởng thiết kế thời Phục hưng của Ý và phong cách cổ điển trong trang trí cung điện vẫn khiến cho mọi người không thể không ấn tượng với 'cung điện mùa hè' The Breakers.

Một cung điện khác thường

[caption id="attachment_1071027" align="aligncenter" width="444"] Kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng Richard Morris Hunt, John Singer Sargent vẽ năm 1895 (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

The Breakers là một trong những công trình nổi tiếng nhất được Richard Morris Hunter thiết kế để tôn vinh kiến trúc Beaux-Arts (phong cách trang trí cổ điển của Paris thế kỷ 19 - École des Beaux-Arts). Đây là tác phẩm cuối cùng của Hunter và là một trong số ít các tòa nhà còn sót lại của ông. Breakers được biết đến với những thành tựu kiến trúc hiếm có và nổi bật. Hunter cũng trưng bày sự giàu có, hy vọng vào sự lạc quan của Hoa Kỳ ở thời điểm đó dưới hình thức văn nghệ Phục hưng; ông được những người đương thời gọi là "Hiệu trưởng Học viện Kiến trúc Hoa Kỳ".

Tòa nhà Breakers hoàn toàn phù hợp với sự hùng vĩ của một cung điện quý tộc, bên trong được trang trí bởi rất nhiều vàng bạc và đá cẩm thạch cùng một số đồ trang sức của châu Âu. Lấy cảm hứng thiết kế từ thời Phục hưng nước Ý, ngoại thất tinh tế và chi tiết khiến nó trở thành một mô hình kiểu mẫu cho cung điện thuộc "Thời đại hoàng kim" cổ điển ở Hoa Kỳ.

Đôi nét về chủ nhân của The Breakers: gia tộc Vanderbilt

[caption id="attachment_1071028" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Chủ sở hữu của Breakers - Cornelius Vanderbilt II (Ảnh: epochtimes)[/caption]

Yếu tố nghệ thuật của cung điện The Breakers

Dưới đây chúng ta hãy cùng nhìn một cách chi tiết hơn về kiến trúc huy hoàng lộng lẫy của tòa nhà này:

[caption id="attachment_1071032" align="aligncenter" width="603"] Cánh cổng sắt rèn ở lối vào cung điện The Breakers. (Ảnh: Edmundmp / Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1071035" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Cột đèn bằng đồng kiểu Ý thời Phục hưng (Ảnh: fotolia)[/caption]

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