| The Life of Luxury (green with envy) | | | | The Life of Luxury; Some Expensive Must-Have |
| It is always nice to see how the other half lives, take | | | | Items |
| for instance there is the | | | | We must be getting richer. Designer items are |
| Life of Luxury: the George Hamilton way. | | | | becoming more and more popular, we are no longer |
| This is a TV show which looks at the lives of the | | | | happy with a cheap watch but want an Omega or a |
| Super Rich in which the first episode looks at the | | | | Tag Heuer. |
| PlayBoy Mansion, a collection of multi-million dollar | | | | According to the Federal Reserve, the net wealth of |
| homes, hip-hop half-billion dollar empires and some | | | | American households hit a high at the end of last |
| queens of shopping. | | | | year, increasing from $46.59 trillion in the third quarter |
| Tom Delay's Life of Luxury over the last six years: | | | | of 2004 to $48.53 trillion in the fourth quarter. Rising |
| Public documents reviewed by The Associated Press | | | | real estate and stock prices helped push the |
| document his 48 visits to golf clubs and resorts; 100 | | | | country's household net worth up 4% between the |
| flights aboard private company planes; 200 stays at | | | | third and fourth quarters. You can now buy a |
| hotels, many world-class; and 500 meals at | | | | $67,000 hand-crafted bathtub; Luxury is no longer |
| restaurants, some averaging nearly $200 for a dinner | | | | confined to the affluent. To enhance people's lives |
| for two. Not all paid for by Tom Delay. | | | | they are willing to pay more for luxury items like |
| ARCHESTRATUS: THE LIFE OF LUXURY | | | | expensive perfumes and designer handbags. |
| ARCHESTRATUS was a Sicilian Greek who wrote a | | | | Sometimes it's hard to justify spending much more |
| poem that was an actual cookbook describing styles | | | | on an item when something considerably less |
| of Greek food in antiquity In travelling throughout the | | | | expensive offers the same functionality. |
| Greek world - Greece, Southern Italy and Sicily, the | | | | You can, for instance, buy a watch for $10 and you |
| coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea - Archestratus | | | | can buy a watch for $20,000 that offers the exact |
| shows us how the ancient Greeks were extremely | | | | same functionality so where is the rationale for |
| cosmopolitan. His influences - ingredients, combinations | | | | buying the expensive watch? Still, the expensive |
| of flavours, techniques - are drawn from a wide | | | | watches get sold and people are proud to own them. |
| Mediterranean background, taking in a diversity of | | | | The exclusive maker of mattresses for the British |
| ideas unrestricted by the topography of the Greek | | | | royal family will reject a container of cashmere if it is |
| mainland. | | | | deemed to be clumpy or defective in any way, says |
| The Life of Luxury: Check out the Robb Report: | | | | the director for the American division. For each bed, |
| Luxury Homes | | | | workers cover thousands of springs in calico cotton; |
| The Robb Report features this Beverly Hills house. | | | | the damask cases are hand-woven in Belgium If you |
| The owners, a retired industrialist and his wife, who is | | | | have to ask how much these mattresses cost you |
| a trustee of Los Angeles’ Museum of | | | | can't afford them. |
| Contemporary Art, wanted the architect to maintain | | | | Life of Luxury: living on your own Cruise Ship |
| a simple palette that would not compete with their | | | | The World is the only private luxury community at |
| art collection, which includes a beautiful collection of | | | | sea. It is a Cruise Ship built with apartments and |
| contemporary art. | | | | studios for long term residency rather than vacation |
| The Life of Luxury's Most Expensive ZIP Codes | | | | cruises. |
| From Beverly Hills to TriBeCa, from notorious | | | | For sale originally were 106 apartments, 19 studio |
| enclaves of mansions and lush lawns to little-known | | | | apartments and 40 studios, with square footage |
| niches of wealth, this is where the most expensive | | | | starting at 675 for studios and maxing out at 3,242 |
| real estate in the country can be found. | | | | for a three bedroom apartment with optional jet |
| Many of these neighborhoods are rarified places, of | | | | pool. With the exception of studios, which have more |
| course. They are close to beaches and golf courses | | | | limited amenities, The World's residential |
| and prime yacht moorings--or at least within spitting | | | | accommodations include fully-equipped kitchens, living |
| distance of the power centers that are the sources | | | | room, veranda and all furniture and audio/video |
| of great wealth. they have high tax bases, expensive | | | | equipment. Studios an Apartments can be had from |
| private schools, exclusive restaurants and they are | | | | 1.4 million to 4.8 million dollars and annual maintenance |
| not all located close to Rodeo Drive. | | | | costs start at $100,000. |