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i do love it, but i wouldn't want it. numero uno: are those mirrored cabinets in the kitchen? sure, easy to clean, but damn they must get filthy fast! one evening of chicken cutlets fryin' in a pan and poof, there goes the clean cabinets.

Claustrophobic! Every room a monochromatic dark grey?? Windows shrouded in grey? This might at a stretch work for a hotel room. Sorry it wouldn't work for me in a home.

I think it's beautiful! (Although I wouldn't want to live there either.) I love the pops of hot pink from Marilyn on the wall and the flowers in the vase.

I really like the loggia! That wall would be great for a nice fresco in the early Italian style like Giotto (check out the architecture: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/giotto/giotto_pentecost.jpg).

There's a typo in the text: Minottis head designer is called Dordoni - not Didini or Dordini.

At first I loved it, and then I wanted him to turn the lights on? And/or have windows?

$2000 faux chinchilla bedspread? Really?

"$2000 faux chinchilla bedspread? Really?"

Here's the look for less:

http://fabulousfurs.com/ruched-chinchilla-throw/p/11012/

Those mirrored upper cabinet doors look great - I'd love to have them in my place...
...and I don't care of they'd get dirty quickly - glass is easy to clean and I'd be more inclined to stay on top of their maintenance than the painted wood doors I have now.

hey, at least it's FAUX chinchilla! i used to have two of those little buggers and every time i see someone wearing them i wanna go apeshit :)

What a sleek, sophisticated, glamerous and soothing apartment. I think the mirrored kitchen cabs are stunning. Such an inspired idea! I also love the brown accents against the greys--so beautiful. And those curtains! They add the perfect touch of understated glamour and sheen.
Also think the bedroom drawers and closets are devine.
Really wonderful space.

A great house....if you're undead. Seriously, it looks so dark and monotonous as to feel like a tomb. But maybe that's just my claustrophobia talking.

It's dramatic and beautiful in a way, but I wouldn't want to live here either. It does look like a hangout for the undead, Annegret.

If he designed this for himself, why did he have to create an imaginary client? Wouldn't he be his own client?

The fantasy he's designing for Tom Ford is rather sweet. Not persuaded that this is true sophistication, however. Natale's work seems provincial and stuck in the 70s, somehow.

So sexy and chic.

I find Natale's work inspired. It is certainly referential and relies heavily on walking the line between glam and sleaze, but for some reason it always makes me smile. Even with an example like this, which is so dark, there always seems to be a sense of playfulness underneath.

Awesome! I love everything about it! I would even throw Disco ball in ... seriously.

The only problem is that it would not work in Chicago. With the winters like the one we just had, I would be suicidal living in there. I need as much light as I can get during the winter.

Ahhhh.. to be rich.

its so sleek and sexy... i own a book with this place featured in it.

That chandelier is lovely, where can *I* get that?

Too dark and gloomy for me. But the loggia is gorgeous. (Add that much light and beautiful views to the rest of the place and I might reconsider.) A place for an urbanite who is home, entertaining, only at night...

Love. I imagine it would look quite nice with the curtains opened.

"What was is your proudest DIY? I sealed the Basalt flooring my self!"

Fabulous.