Penis Leather

We are loaded. But we Dutch still need to learn how to really spend. Branded clothes and delicatessen specialty stores, design in the loft, distant travel, cabriolet and jeep have all been discovered by no, so time for the big league.

Take our buildings, lacking in genuine luxury in terms of materials used. One factor that makes something a luxury item is scarcity i.e. the rarer, the better. Titanium and marble as cladding is nothing compared to Nero’s Domus Aura (Golden House). Roman scholar and Nero biographer Suetonius gives us this description: “All rooms are gilded and inlayed with gems and mother of pearl. Dining room ceilings feature ivory intaglio and hatches so flowers could be scattered over the guests.”

All right! That is more like it. However gold, gems and ivory are a bit tacky so we continue our search. For starters, we switch to solid wood and forget about laminate. Coromandel (ebony) wood and padoekwortel wood require very deep pockets.

Killing animals for their teeth is banned now, using old ivory however is still permitted. Like fossilized 20.000 year old seal’s teeth, or 30.000 year old fossilized mammoth’s ivory. Hillknives fashions it into exclusive blade handles. Africa brings us exclusive fish leather, nice for lining the shower stall.
And try this on for size: Onassis had his bar stools upholstered with foreskin harvested from whale penises. This leather is apparently exceptionally smooth and as you would expect exceptionally pricey.
 
So scarcity makes for an exclusive material; another way to go is pursue the highest quality within a materials segment. Fabrics designer Claudy Jongstra supplies felt fabrics for such fashion designers as John Galliano and Donna Karan. She gets the wool from her own Drente Moor sheep, a rare breed. Proof that exclusiveness can very well be sourced close to home.