even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

This one caught my eye a couple days ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/business/david-solomon-dj-goldman-sachs.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/arts/design/art-labor-child-care.html

The ad, seeking a full-time “Executive/Personal Assistant” with “a high level of discretion,” had been posted by an anonymous but high-profile “Art World Family.” It was that phrase that first caught Colucci’s eye: “I thought it might have been a child-care service,” she explained. But the ad itself combined a tone so blithe with a detailed list of tasks so unreasonable that Colucci quickly posted it to the blog she co-founded, Filthy Dreams, under the title “I Found It: The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created.”

And what made the blog post immediately catch fire across the internet was that it was only slightly crazier than the sorts of jobs many young people — the overeducated assistants, the underemployed M.F.A.s, all the well-dressed hordes of the exploited — already put up with to get a toehold in what looks like the glamour of the art world.

For starters, the lucky candidate would expect to work “in a dynamic, unstructured environment and possess flexibility to change course at a moment’s notice.”
Among many other domestic chores, the aspiring subordinate would “serve as the central point of communication to household staff (includes chef, nannies, landscapers, dog walkers, housekeeper, contractors, and building managers),” but also be left alone with the couple’s 4-year-old. Clothes would need to be picked up from “high end” stores, and one could expect to “coordinate all cleaning, repairs, and guest stays.” Do you have a green thumb? You’ll need one: The post requires “apartment rooftop garden maintenance.”

He or she would make restaurant reservations, R.S.V.P. to events, and “create detailed travel itineraries for family to follow” for domestic or international excursions — passports to hotels to airport escorts. (Oh, and manage travel bookings for members of the artist’s studio, too.)

But the point that really stayed with Colucci was the ad’s one-sentence synopsis of the job requirements: “The ideal candidate must be dedicated to a simple goal: make life easier for the couple in every way possible.”

“It’s just a total lack of self-awareness,” she said. “So of course I saw it and I laughed, ‘cause it’s hilarious.”

Apparently Tom Sachs

Introducing the Tom Sachs Store: https://store.tomsachs.org/

Wait til they see who shows up for the interview

I've seen this horror movie at least twice

See you soon @nft_paris !@tsrocketfactory pic.twitter.com/PaooayyxA0

— Tom Sachs (@tom_sachs) February 23, 2023

can't believe this guy is into NFTs!

I have those Tom sacks Nikes and now I feel like a schmuck

*Sucks

Inside David Harbour and Lily Allen's 'Weird and Wonderful' Brooklyn Town House
The Stranger Things actor and British singer-actor created a family oasis with AD100 designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff of MADE

They could double date with Kate Nash and Ron Perlman

I genuinely couldn't live more than a few days in a house/apartment that was furnished and decorated like that. It isn't really meant to be lived in, like every other living space that gets featured in Architectural Digest.

Michael Imperioli's apartment is a nightmare

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-white-lotus-star-michael-imperiolis-little-slice-of-history-in-new-york-city

Yeah, that looks like an upmarket episode of Storage Wars. I couldn't spend the night in someplace that crowded with shit, never mind get any work done.

The video is nightmare-inducing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHAvgEBnsk

"as moderns" wtf !

I have a feeling that since all these celebs have multiple homes, the ones they show AD or the Times are the ones they never actually live in.

One of the publishing world's quiddities is that Architectural Digest is not about architecture. Nor even interior design. It's about decorating.

What is the style of the Imperiolis' house? Late Restoration Throwup?

Villa N’asty

Imperioli looks so big in those photos and he’s not a big guy

Doctor, my eyes!

Kind of surprised that's to Imperioli's taste tbrh! I thought this guy was an old indiepunk. Isnt he into like My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteaus and shit? Why is he living in a Palazzo Versace resort.

he married an interior decorator

And whats going on here in his "study"? A painting, hanging in front of several shelves of the bookcase?! Who is working in this room? I see no laptop, no phones, no papers.

https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/63d020858f41ccd2536b05f3/master/w_1920%2Cc_limit/2022_AD_Imperioli9698_edit.jpg

That room would make me too dizzy to work.

He says he runs meditation sessions in there! with all that distracting clutter!

I mean I like clutter, you should see my house, every wall has something on it/against it/in front of it... but yeesh.

the thing about david harbour and lily allen's home is funnier if you'd seen harbour's previous AD feature before they got married - his old loft had a completely different style! and actually seemed really cozy - lots of white space, plants, and books. guess the new house was decorated mostly to lily allen's taste.

they say that repeatedly in the feature

Oh wow yeah that loft/warehouse space is great. I love the moroccan souk feel of that bathroom, i want one. I could not go from that to the overfussy barfarama townhouse. That cloth frill round the kitchen island is giving me anxiety hives.

...you know, apparently hammam was the word I wanted there and not souk. Thats embarrasing.

$2M “wedding nightmare” in Aspen due to audio malfunction, lawsuit saysM “wedding nightmare” in Aspen due to audio malfunction, lawsuit says - each sentence is worse than the one before until you get to the final one which is the only way it could end. I hope all the workers cashed those paychecks quickly

Paywalled

Works with ad blockers and/or 12ft.io

https://archive.li/U1rPS

That lawsuit, filed in April, echoes many of the same complaints as Tuesday’s, according to media reports, but also claims that chairs at the reception were too heavy. As a result, guests couldn’t enjoy the horah, a traditional Jewish dance in which the bride and groom are carried on chairs.

get stronger friends IMO

strong lede

The guy the NY Times found to defend legacy admits really hit it out of the park pic.twitter.com/tTFjZAqpsp

— Steven Klein (@stevenmklein) July 30, 2023

Here's the text from the NYT story, for those without X:

“In the real world, folks, this is how things go,” said Rob Longsworth, an investment manager who was the seventh in his family to attend Amherst College. “But this is ultimately not a zero sum game. If other people want these things, go get them. Do the work to establish such a tradition in your family, if that’s what they want to do.”

I want to establish a tradition in my family where we don't starve to death or die in ignominy. Still working on it. I will get back to you.

"let them establish a tradition of eating cake in their families, if that's what they want to do."

https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/ues-boy-pays-protestors-harass-lux-ues-hotel-workers-suit

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/magazine/marriage-trust-fund-ethics.html

I am a 44-year-old man and have been married to my spouse for 10 years. We’ve been together for 15. Unbeknown to my spouse, I have a trust fund that provides me with a monthly income of $25,000. When we first met, I said that I worked as a consultant, and they have never questioned this.

a monthly what of what now???

lol @ the previous week's "answer". such a garbage column.

My favorite part of that whole bonkers question is when he says that he and his spouse are "comfortably upper-middle-class" — on $300k a year in trust fund money plus whatever their hard-working DOCTOR spouse makes.

He wrote "unbeknown to my spouse" instead of "what my spouse doesn't know is" so that tells me enough about this asshole right off the top.

https://i.imgur.com/R5wZhLT.png

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/nyregion/farmer-prom-long-island.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/nyregion/farmer-prom-long-island.html

https://i.imgur.com/90VQzk0.jpg