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The film offers many interesting insights and learnings. Yes, money can buy lots of things ... but not class and taste. Yes, the Siegels are not building a home ... they're building a tacky hotel.

Despite tempting us with an to feel morally and esthetically superior to its subjects, the film does provide insights and learnings. It is as much about the human mind's ability to essentially rationalize anything as it is about how what we think and do impacts who we become.

Granted some of the stuff the Siegels say comes off as vapidly stupid, but there are times when they are disarmingly lucid and ... well, right! To dismiss this film as yet another reality television-like expose` of wretched excess is to miss both the point and what we might learn about ourselves.

No offense, but who cares? Good designers should be recognized by their designs, not their faces.

Not my style, but a beautiful resurrection of a chair with great lines.

That is an "after" that really represents a transformation .... from the hideous to something that, depending on one's decorating sensibilities, could be a dramatic addition to one's decor.

Okay, admittedly I may be purist .... but since you got an Eames-ish chair at such a bargain price, why not spend a bit (or more than a bit) more and redo it in (black/tan/off white) leather?

Houndstooth checks on that chair are like pin stripes and flames on a Ferrari.