At left is the sculpture Richard Perry and his wife, man-purse designer Lisa had installed on their terrace at 1 Sutton Place South in 2007. Nobody had much of a problem with the piece-- a Jeff Koons, worth a few million or so-- back then but lately the garish display has started to stick in the craw of Perry's neighbs, for two reasons. First, they think it's hideous. "I think it's as ugly as it comes," said Juergen Thieme, who lives across the street at 2 Sutton Place. And second? It's freaking blinding them.
Neighbors who live across the street in a penthouse at 14 Sutton Place complained that the light reflecting off it was burning like lasers through their windows, and workmen had to adjust the diamond's positioning, a source said.
It was one thing when a certain art loving hedge fund manager had a crane dump a diamond encrusted money sign the size of a football field on the roof of his Greenwich-area manse, disrupting gravitational pulls and distracting planes flying overhead. But this? This is quite another.
Diamond In The Roof [NYP via Daily Intel]
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:45PM
that's some fug shit right there
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:46PM
dick, you have hideous taste in art.
-sc
Posted by Investorcluzo , Jul 31, 2009 3:48PM
Rich, that would look great in the foyer of my office, give me a call.
-David Einhorn
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:50PM
how is perry doing this year?
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:50PM
I have a cornhole piercing just like that, but smaller.
Dennis Kneale
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:51PM
fuck yeah lasers!
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:52PM
did stevie really do that?
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:57PM
@7 yeah, cockbag, I did. what of it?
-SC
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 3:59PM
Actually that's dope.
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:01PM
Any wealthy murse-bearer would necessarily have a Green Lantern baby-making machine beacon too.
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:04PM
@10 green lantern baby making machine for the win.
http://dealbreaker.com/2009/07/presnted-without-comment-the-g.php
Posted by Anal_yst , Jul 31, 2009 4:08PM
anyone wanna organize a black ops mission?
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:22PM
Actually that is a turd that swueezed of Assman during one of his tirades about (insert subject here).
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:23PM
Actually that is a turd that squeezed of Assman during one of his tirades about (insert subject here).
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:25PM
$11.8M is a lot to spend on a fake green diamond by a still-living artist.
-2StopShop
Posted by Anal_yst , Jul 31, 2009 4:35PM
@15
Its an emerald, the diamond one is blue, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/25697/for-the-price-of-jeff-koonss-blue-diamond/
Posted by guest , Jul 31, 2009 4:59PM
@16
Right back at ya, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27580/the-ring-and-the-bling/
-2SS
Posted by guest , Sep 11, 2009 7:05PM
As the French say "mauvais gout" for those who have no taste but don't know it. Buying "name" art doesn't make it appropriate. Les nouveaux riches!