Sale at 1049 Fifth Avenue #PH1

I've seen worse decorating. It's kinda foo-fee for a dude. Nice layout. I have neither 5 nor 14 million $ so makes no difference to me how much they want for it.

My gaydar is tingling. Sorry, KW/Matt et al. I KNOW you guys have better taste than that.

my gaydar tingles over the juxtaposition of rush's professed homophobia with his sneaky trips to the dominican republic

Yes, misguided murals and too-glossy wood are easy to fix.

Google Books has stories from 1991, when it was converted from a hotel. Nicely-done, with thickened floor slabs, 5-pipe HVAC, and so on. The developer was a real character.

Yikes, just googled. RL in the DR with Viagra.

rush, renowned supplier of talking points to somewhereelse, is a high-quality guy, as is somewhereelse---ask him...he'll elaborate

This building has the misfortune to be next to the sale challenged 1055 Park Avenue. What a mess @ 1055. The sidewalks around the site have finally been returned to the public.

1055 may be the harebrainedest RE scheme ive seen to date

IMO, saying this decorating is gay is an insult to gay people, lol! Gay people gave waaaay better taste. To me, it's gauche & overdone, it's decorating for someone who has no taste. Looks like an overly aubussoned & muraled version of Donald Trump's apt, only he does it with brass & mirrors. This place will needs lotsa paint & wall paper/fabric remover.

OMG If that says "gay" it says "Liberace on a bad day gay". True there is nothing masculine about it and I would LOVE nothing better than for Rush to be outed ala Larry Craig (not that I like the idea of violating privacy but I hold hypocritical haters to another standard). But I suspect this mess is less the sign of crack in the closet door and more of having no taste and throwing massive amounts of money at a decorator with a "do what you want, I'm only there a few days a year anyway" attitude. Hence what you have is a decorator's (and probably female) fantasy, not Rush's.

Wouldn't be an awesome story if Russ were gay??? Like the ending of "Bruno"....what could the haters say then?

On the other hand I honestly would love to have that bathroom.

Ok. First, Rush is not gay. I looked in the most-recent Gay Directory and he isn't in there. It is the same book i look in when friends ask, "Oh, Kyle, is _____ gay?"

Second. This is not gay decorating. It is text book straight castrastrophe. It is what happens when a straight person who doesn't come from money, and who hasn't had any sense of aesthetics imparted to him, suddently comes into A LOT of money. It is like the corner grocer winning the lottery. The result is not cheap ugly. It is expensive ugly. Gaudy. A tacky person's vision of how a rich people's homes look.

See Madoff's apartment for another example of a guy and his wife with no taste adopting this style. Trump is a bit of a twist on this because he didn't grow up poor--his family had money. But likely no one had any taste--Queens was never exactly a hotbed of trend-setting for Architectural Digest (now, don't jump all over me--I know all about how nice Forest Hills Gardens is, etc.). His Trump Tower apartment is every bit as grotesque and hideous as Rush's place.

Haha, Kyle is completely right again. This apartment is hilarious. It should be required study at the NYSID.

This place should be featured in Curb's "My, that's Rather Hideous" section.

Kyle, do you use the old school printed Gay Directory or the online version?

Seriously, your critique is perfect and should be placed as a caveat em prompter along side the broker listing (fat chance of that).

Maybe I'm just hoping he's a Larry Craig. Chalk it down to my belief/hope that people can't be that crazy unless there's a skeleton in their closet.

>> old school printed Gay Directory

Isn't that just the pines phone book?

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On another thought, has anyone licked the doorknobs in this apartment? I can just envision Divine, Mink Stole, and Dan Savage licking everything in this apartment during a showing.

i guess they hid the stuffed animals under the bed before photographing it

I just sent the link to a friend with good taste in everything but politics of the Republican persuasion. If this doesn't make her see the light, I don't know what will. (Yes, she agrees with me on the "social" issues but on everything else...I just don't get it. Nobody's perfect.)

liz,

I'm probably way more conservative than most people on this board, but 1) I don't like Rush & 2) I think the place is hideous.

i've never been rich or gay but i can't imagine that either are acceptable explanations for the palm trees.

Um ... wow.

Very "girly".

In his defense, maybe it was his wife's decorating. I've never been a fan of the over-the-top Baroque formal. I feel like I'd need to be in a tux all the time just to sit in my dining room.

My tastes run more to the more masculine Craftsman and Mission ... with a nice mix of Midcentury Modern.

liz: I'm an independent, I thought the decor was very liberal. Like Rush's personal mocking of NYC. No self respecting conservative would do this.

I think it's very libertarian. it clearly is saying fuck you to the masses.

i don't know what it's saying, what color it's wearing, or what it's eating for dinner; it scares me.

"i've never been rich or gay but i can't imagine that either are acceptable explanations for the palm trees." hahaha!

. Power To The People. Off The Pig!!!

Deaf and dumb, anyone really shocked we now have confirmation of blind?

Now we know why he is in so much pain.

This is why shopping isn't recommended during an oxycontin jag.

It's a glimpse at the honest to god evangelical heaven.

this thread is a never ending source of hilarity. thank you NWT.

...or an illustration to "1984". Main pigsty.

Maybe it was much simpler than all this. Just an over-educated, under qualified, UWS middle-aged, ultra liberal, angry interior decorator, just purposely, completely screwing an ultra conservative asshole. She wins, game-set-match.

Rush doesn't know any "over-educated, under qualified, UWS middle-aged, ultra liberal, angry interior decorator"(s).
We just had a peak into his liver which substitutes the heart in his mass.

It's like the bridal suite at the Economy Lodge

Dwell, you win, I just laughed out loud. Rush should have his own HGTV show, he could do so much more harm.

Thanks maly :)

This is what people, who have no concept of good taste, think is klassy. It's very middle America, something from the hinterlands, like Omaha Ramada Inn, which is rather surprising considering this is 5th Ave.

It's amusing & appalling: $14MM to buy a gut renovation. Wonder if Stain Kill will actually cover the murals.

Dwell cracked me up and I laughed loud enough to have to explain why to others in the room. Excellent. Econo Lodge--hilarious.

This is my favorite new thread. Hope it lasts for days.

Thanks Kyle :). You got me LOLing out loud too, Dude.

Everytime I see the pics, I laugh & wretch. Beauty truly is in the behind of the beholder.

The sad thing is the cost of this "decor" probably would buy a whole chain of Econo-Lodges.

Actually the thing about this apartment is that it probably would have Rush's fan base, the McMansion set on "House Hunters" would probably drool over it.

Limbo Lounge.

Seriously, why are we sitting here analyzing this Nazi vulgarian...
In a perfect world, we wouldn't know who he was.

lizyank, his fan base is covered by tv evangelists. The pillars of taste and reason, they are.

Thank you NWT for posting this. It's the listing that keeps giving.

Something I don't understand: The "Winged Victory" statue is in the dinning room. So, why isn't the Mona Lisa hanging above the fireplace in the living room instead of the Pier 1 prints?

"Seriously, why are we sitting here analyzing this Nazi vulgarian... "

I think it's vulgar for you to refer to him as a Nazi ... not to mention an insult to Jews who died at the hands of REAL Nazis.

Shame on you.

the look on the stuart moss's face (the listing broker) says it all... they must have taken the photo right after he got a peek at the property.. poor guy!

The layout is fab. As for the murals, one could just paint over the palm trees and blue skies. The woodwork is just unfortunately finished in a high-gloss yellow color, but is probably high-quality oak, so easy enough to go matte in a better tone. The decorating probably subtracts a million or two from this place. I don't know much about 1055 Park's current situation, but I imagine this PH is a real PH and floats over it all.

http://muralsuperstore.com/UNICORNPRINCESS.htm from alan

"On the other hand I honestly would love to have that bathroom." no liz, not THAT specific bathroom! just imagine how much time rush has spent passed out naked in a pool of his own vomit on the floor....
{"shudder"}

Checked the building - wonder where is PH22? Above Rush?

Glamma: there isn't enough disinfectant in the world for this apartment.

Whaddaya tawkin about ... a few tubs of the bleaching power of oxycodone should do the trick.

[insert Limbaugh/"trick" joke here]

[insert Limbaugh/"insert" joke here]

You can't just look at this place and say this or that about the decor.
I decided to visit the place and see it for myself through the eyes of Rush.
First I crushed up about 6 Oxycotons and snorted them rapidly.
Then I ate an Aptivia Yogurt with 4 Percosets and 3 Darvons crushed up and mixed in.
I smoothed the edges of my head with 3 Xanex and quickly drank 3 Red Bulls.
With my Limbaugh Goggles firmly in place I entered the open house.
It looks a lot bigger in the floor plan b/c once your in the house their are some full size pink elephants and I didn't even attempt to count the gremlins. The murals are infinitely different under the influence of so many psycho tropics and their mysterious drug-drug interactions. As far as I was concerned there was one bedroom that is accessible from the apartment but is located in the tropics!
You can't see it in the photos but. all the corners and edges have been rounded and padded. This is a great feature when stumbling from room to room and periodically falling over and hitting you head on the furniture. If i could afford it I'd buy it in a NY minute. If I had the kind of money it tales I'd also have the money to irradiate all the little trolls living under the bed and in the closets. Looks like I'll have to write again later. The Betty Ford only let's me on the internet 15 minutes at a time.

Falco - so true. It is probably really cool under the effect of pharmaceuticals.

Glamma...Eeeewwww no....I never I never thought it out that far but you are right. Any toilet Rush would have hsve s(h)at on is beyond the means of any disinfectant known to the universe. Ditto the tub.

On the other hand, he could have left something in the medicine chest. (Actually shouldn't Rush be at the new place on West Side that gives you a special "drug safe").

Phoenix House?

From the NY Times blog:

Did you hear that Rush Limbaugh’s Manhattan penthouse is on the market for $14 million? It’s an amazing property. Over 4,000 square feet. And that’s just the medicine cabinet.

Matt baby, you're so quick to point a finger ... wrong!
1. He is an antisemitc, christianity- and "order", "America for Americans" -obsessed, populist nazi, restrained only by law.
2. I am a Jew, and Eastern European one at that. Please stop your stupid, uninformed, arrogant lecturing.

Moving on...
The fact that a pigface provocateur is worth so much money is a really sad thing.

falco you are hystercal! this thread is the gift that keeps on giving