A millionaire wanted to decorate his living room with an impressive Rolls-Royce Ghost. Life on the 44th floor didn’t seem to matter to him.
Decorating a new home is always challenging. There are hundreds of details to consider: paint color, furniture style, choice of light fixtures… and finding the right place to house your Rolls-Royce Ghost.
Have you ever thought about parking your car in your living room? Well, there are more and more millionaires who are unhappy with it sitting in the garage and park it in the middle of the living room as just another piece of decor. Even when what you call home It’s on the 44th floor..
Car? At the end of the corridor on the right
A Chinese millionaire wanted to give his Rolls-Royce Ghost a starring role in his living room. Although the idea seems eccentric, it is becoming increasingly common among millionaires. What is striking in this case is that the two and a half tons that this Rolls-Royce model weighs were going to be installed in a luxury apartment in Fujian province (China), located on the 44th floor of a skyscraper. He recorded it on video and it was so spectacular that it went viral.
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It’s common for car enthusiasts to enjoy being driven on the road, but in this case the five-and-a-half meter Ghost was destined to become just another room in this millionaire’s living room. It’s like a painting or a sculpture.
Climb this mechanical mass to its final destination on the 44th floor. it was necessary to design a special platform to support the weight of the car and keep it horizontal while a large crane lifted the car onto the apartment’s terrace, where several workers moved it into a conservatory with panoramic views of the city.
Parking in a garage is too much mainstream
The “appearance” of this millionaire is not an exceptional case. In 2023 Motopassion It said Australian millionaire Adrian Portelli had achieved his dream of owning a spectacular $3 million McLaren Senna GTR.
Portelli didn’t like driving his supercar, so he decided to take it home so he could always see it. The detail is that the millionaire He lives on the 57th floor of an apartment building. The feat was also immortalized and shared on the millionaire’s Instagram profile.
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The main drawback in both cases is that this trip to altitude will probably be the last of their lives, or at least for a long, long time. The complexity (and cost) of the operation required to remove them from their site makes it unlikely that they will be moved again at street level.
The use of luxury cars as decorative objects that are placed next to works of art in luxury apartments or houses seems uptrend. So much so that even some architectural projects already have it and offer the opportunity to park the car in the living room without spending a fortune on loading it.
Reignwood Hamilton Scotts apartments in Singapore costing around S$13.2 million (just over €9 million at exchange rates) a special elevator that allows you to lift a supercar tenants and park it in the living room of the house.
Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida designed the KRE House, which included a lifting platform connecting the living room and the garage so that the owner could lift one of the cars directly from the garage and display it in his living room. .
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