“Why are so many of my business-leader peers writing cheques to give nearly unchecked power to a man with whom they wouldn’t sign a condominium contract?” The LinkedIn co-founder provides his own explanations in a guest essay https://econ.st/3xcSNWU
Illustration: Dan Williams
A hydrogen station has opened near Harumi Flag, a condominium complex established on the site of the Athletes Village for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
彭博新聞社針對中國廉價住房危機進行了一項有趣的調查：「2016年末，北京就三分之二的住房制定了價格上限，以向數百萬中產階級提供廉價住房。自此之後，一棟棟廉價公寓在北京郊區興起。然而三年過去了，這些狹窄、品質低落的偏遠公寓大多無人問津。」閱讀全文：https://www.bloomberg.com/…/beijing-has-built-thousands-of-…
Interesting Bloomberg investigation into China’s affordable housing crisis: “When Beijing introduced price caps for almost two-thirds of apartments in late 2016 as part of a program to provide homes for millions of middle-class citizens to buy, an array of cheap condominiums began springing up on the city’s outskirts. Three years on, the cramped, poor-quality units that are far from anywhere lie mostly empty.” Read the full article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/…/beijing-has-built-thousands-of-…
Even China can’t fix its affordable housing crisis.
Recovering Art Market Attracts Trophy Works A8
Trophy pieces by Bacon, Basquiat, Brancusi and others go on the block this week at New York art auctions.
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But hubris has a nasty habit of breeding disaster, particularly when combined with oodles of cheap debt. (One oft-ignored point is that Chinese companies such as Anbang have expanded their leverage at startling speed recently.) If I had to make a bet, I’d wager that sooner or later some of these Chinese companies will indeed go bust, along with their lenders; and, inevitably, those trophy assets — such as hotels — will be resold again too.
A Wine Tour at the Corner of Oak and Vine
The performances too are spot-on with Keith Allen and Andy de Ia Tour catching the matching vulgarity of the two brothers, Lia Williams combining sexiness and asperity as the banker's trophy wife and Danny Dyer as the far-from-dumb waiter implying a world of eccentric otherness far beyond the comprehension of these self-absorbed diners.
Our Castles (二)
....現在...看看美式一般家宅的內相（interior）用語。進得門 來，先是門廳（foyer），接下來多是 living room，說也奇怪，這字面直譯為「起居」之室的所在，其實是用來招待客人的門面廳（show room），而非一家人起居生活之所，因此丁丁姑稱之「外廳」。「家庭間」（family room）才是自家人睡覺吃飯之外享受天倫共聚之處，丁丁稱之「內廳」。兩廳必須各自備辦沙發桌櫃組，未免重複，因此有些人家遂走實際路線，採大間制 （great room），內外交功能合併，合二廳為一大廳。
若要做個類比，現代住家的 living room，應近似過去 drawing room 的功能，family room 則是 sitting room（起坐間）。drawing room 不是畫室，而是withdrawing room，女士的房間（ladies room）。英美「舊」小說裡，晚餐用畢，女主人帶領其他女士、女客起身退出（withdraw），叧至別室進行優雅談話，留在餐廳的男士此時遂可開始放 心地吞雲吐霧，百無禁忌，或論公事、或談男士專屬話題。語畢，再同赴 drawing room 與女士們相聚用茶，進行餐後兩性皆宜的男女共同社交時間。
民以食為天，吃飯這個動作的進行場地往往也分門面與實際。Dining room 擺上正式六人以上大型長餐桌組（dining set），堂皇氣派，配有漂亮的展示櫃（cabinet），精緻瓷器在內一字排開。餐桌正中央是美麗的花飾燭臺，概稱centerpiece。這是用來請 客宴賓的所在，至於自家平日用餐，比較大的房子通常設有 eat-in-kitchen 空間，廚房一角放上小餐桌椅組（dinette set），迅速確實，排場俱免。講究的人家在室內向陽處還有早餐角落（breakfast nook），清晨的陽光流瀉入室，吃早飯看早報，令人精神為之一振。...."
現在我們稱為"豪門"的房間
LOS ANGELES — Candy Spelling, widow of the television producer Aaron Spelling, is downsizing.
After nearly 20 years in The Manor, a 56,500-square-foot French chateau-style home known for its size and extravagance — it includes a wine-tasting room, a bowling alley, a silver room, a china room and a well-known gift-wrapping room — she says she is ready for the next trophy property: a condominium.
“People say, How can you move from The Manor? There’s no place like it,” Mrs. Spelling said, sitting in the library with leatherbound scripts of every episode of Mr. Spelling’s shows, from “Charlie’s Angels” to “7th Heaven.”
But a condo, she said, “is no different than a house, maybe even better.”
wine-tasting room品酒室
bowling alley保齡球道間
silver room 銀器間
china room 磁器間
gift-wrapping room 送禮包裝間
There’s no place like it, The Manor, a 56,500-square-foot French chateau-style home known for its size and extravagance — 法國城堡式 豪門巨室
不過看看本文指的
Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
Candy Spelling, widow of the television producer Aaron Spelling, in the entryway of her 56,500-square-foot home, The Manor.
a condominium 這字通常指condominium (BUILDING)
noun [C]
1 US an apartment building in which each apartment is owned separately by the people living in it, but also containing shared areas
2 (INFORMAL condo) an apartment in a condominium
condo
plural condos
Definition of condo
: CONDOMINIUM sense 3: such as
a: a unit in a multiunit structure (such as an apartment building) or on land owned in common (such as a town house complex)He lives with his wife … in a really great condo with a really great view of Boston Harbor.— Wendy Wasserstein
b: a building containing condominiumsPastel condos dot the hills, and chili stores and sweet "shoppes" line the main drag.— Ted Fishman
showroom
noun [C]
a large shop in which people are encouraged to look at the goods that are on sale before buying them:
a car showroom
Our complete range of carpets is on display in our showroom.
trophy wifen.
An attractive, young wife married to a usually older, affluent man.
trophy wife/girlfriend noun [C] DISAPPROVING
a young attractive woman who is the partner of a rich and successful older man and acts as a symbol of his social position
trophy property
類似炫耀式的別業noun [C]
1 a prize, such as a gold or silver cup, which is given to the winner of a competition or race, and often returned after a year to be given to the winner of the competition in the following year:
He's an excellent snooker player, but he's never won a major trophy.
The Duchess of Kent will be presenting the trophies.
2 something used as a symbol of success from hunting or war:
That stuffed pike above the fireplace is Pat's trophy from a fishing holiday in Scotland.
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