This is old, but was just sent to me by a friend in a discussion of Chinese middle-class taste, and made me laugh out loud at least three times, so I'm sharing.
Things you get in a lot of aspirational homes here; plastic grandfather clocks, ducks on the wall, images of famous landmarks with digital clocks in the middle, occasionally racist figurines. Think second-rate Indian restaurant, basically.
Is that an early version of Harry Hutton's blog?
Posted by: ejh | June 28, 2011 at 10:09 AM
You should introduce them to the Luxury Travelling Loo Company...
Posted by: BenSix | June 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Some friends of mine visiting Beijing from the States described one of my previous apartments as "the First Pimp Bank of Beijing," which was about right. Faux-marble everything; kitchen cabinets that were actually just fronts for piping; a humidifier that resembled a blue Louis Tiffany birdbath and had blinking, color-changing LEDs to let you know when you were being humidified. Pink track lighting around the edges of the ceiling, fake cardboard books on the bookshelf-cum-coatrack at the door, and plumbing installed by people who had never heard of the U-bend.
It didn't have gold-plated Versace flatware, though.
Posted by: Brendan | June 28, 2011 at 05:04 PM