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Some years ago FT's How To Spend It supplement (now HTSI) was saved by reader pressure (many seemed to read it ironically).... nowadays it is a window into the walled garden of the liberal wealthy, who would reject the nouveau riche looks of Hello & the crass gold plated consumerism of the vulgar rich.... but who have the money to shelter them from the vicissitudes of contemporary life.
I used to read it & wryly smile at the relentless 'good taste'... now I more often grind my teeth
@ChrisMayLA6
If there's one old adage that has stood the test of time, it's that money doesn't buy taste.
@ChrisMayLA6 When I worked in the City during the first dot com boom I had clients from old wealth and new money and I once jokingly said to my ex-partner, an upwardly mobile working class woman from the North with - her words - “a chip on both shoulders”, that on a day-to-day basis the old money people were much easier to work for. Civility bred through centuries of training just gently washes over you.
20 years later I now have the same visceral reaction to it that she had back then.