What can the owners be thinking? EUR10.8 million for a penthouse in St Julian’s
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April 20, 2012 at 1:47pm
I’ve just received an email from The Telegraph expat service, highlighting its current stories. One of them is a pictorial feature about luxury homes with libraries, which are on the market. I flicked through them, wondering why the presence of bookshelves turns a drawing-room into a library, and came to:
A traditional-looking library, complete with leather sofas and floor-to-ceiling shelves, attached to a huge penthouse apartment in St Julian’s, Malta. And as if that’s not enough space to be studious in, there’s also “his” and “hers” study areas. You can buy the apartment for a rather staggering GBP8.9 million, from Leading Luxury Real Estate.
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Why would you want a “his” and “hers” “study area”? Call mine a one-track mind, but a nine million pound penthouse has one purpose only: getting into “her” knickers.
[Daphne – Baxxter, the penthouse IS OWNED by a ‘she’. I know this for a fact, even if you couldn’t deduce it from the decor. It’s got to be a woman or Noel Coward.]
“His” shreddies then. Hang on a minute. Do men hanker after a woman’s purse?
Poor woman, she must be in need of money.
Who can ever imagine a woman with only four pairs of shoes.
………Or Professor Higgins hopping with joy when Liza Do-little finally “got it!””
This is the penthouse:
http://www.leadingluxuryrealestate.com/penthouse-portomaso-malta.html
And this is the feature article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/expatproperty/9208670/Luxury-homes-with-libraries-for-sale.html
Love the Pompeian cinema.
It’s like something Tony Montana designed for Elvira Hancock.
Looks like something owned by an Arab sheikh. No taste, no class, and glitzy in that Maltese nouveau riche way.
Spot on Baxxter!
Plastic covers jonqos minhabba it-trab u doilies min ghand tal- Lira.
This is puzzling – part of the description says
“……excluding the maid’s quarters.”
With 1400sqm either the maid is bionic or there is a mistake in the calculation of area, or the other maids are black market (hope that is politically correct)
Min jaf kemm isiru borom bis-soppa tal-armla f’dik il-kcina, dejjem jekk il-prezz tal-pastard u gbejniet, kif ukoll dak tal elettriku u gas, ma jkomplux jgholew.
U bejn borma u ohra, tista’ toqghod bir-rollers.
All that money and they can’t buy good taste. Shame.
If it’s a library, why the TV?
Judging by the empty shelves and faux volumes, it could be useful.
It looks like someone ordered one cigar room/wine bar too many.
Biex jaraw Kalamita’ fuq One, waqt li jaghmlu il-kroswert pazil tal-Orizzont.
10M euro and only 2 bedrooms?
‘The exclusive home for sale comprises 2 bedrooms, living room, lounge room, a 100 foot living/dining area.’
Mela villeggiatura tigi dik.
Jew luxury bowthaws gol-Armier.
I suspect that no papers for peer-reviewed scientific journals have had their gestation in either his or her study area.
I remember being in a London antiquarian bookshop when a client ordered leather-bound volumes by the yard, clearly without a clue as to the content of the books.
I have the books but I don’t have the money to own this place.
You don’t have to look as far as London.
I know of people who ordered books by the foot from Sapienza’s.
I guess that some people still think that they can buy culture and knowledge.
[Daphne – Culture and knowledge? Books are for fun.]
Saif al-Islam thought so – for a while.
And then there was the one who bragged about having a bookshelves in his bathroom (because he obviously reads while crapping – though I don’t know whether or not he had a leather bin there, too).
Meanwhile, talking of libraries, look what I’ve found: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/LIBRARIES-MALTA-MATRENZA-Richard-Place-Noted/4879822509/bd
Socialist Yana Mintoff could afford it. If not today, when she inherits.
If I were her, I would not bet on inheriting anything from that old carcass either. I hear that he does not even trust his daughters with cashing his cheques. That is not to say they are not to be trusted, but only that Mintoff is the sort of miser who wouldn’t trust anyone with a cheque or money.
Her father could afford it but he already has a spiritiera for his cooking.
It looks like an English pub. Is that a bar there? A flat for almost 9 million pounds – that is madness.
It is.
Everything is standard tacky hotel fare one can order off catalogues from China.
Derivative chesterfields, cheap carpets, off the shelf ‘paintings’, imitation designer lamps, plastic rattan, aged wood veneers, even the flowers look plastic.
Who needs a library today with iPad and Kindle?
erm, wood worms?
My ex boss lived in an enormous house where he and his wife each had their own bedroom with a little sitting/study area. Sort of a private apartment. Such a big penthouse with only two bedrooms is really absurd.
Not a good look…
At least this penthouse comes with four parking spaces.
I have heard about such properties in Portomaso or Tigne in the seven figure bracket with not even one parking space or, at most, a small space for the Smart.
Maybe those penthouses come with a helipad instead?
I’ll wait for a Christmas sale when they offer two for the price of one.
Ghandi kamra ghaxra b’ghaxra f’nofs ghalqa ta’ tlett itmiem b’veduta tal-bahar kemm tara ghajnejk. La noqod innaddaf tapiti u l-anqas nikkoppa jekk jidhol xi hadd. Nidhol sal-bieb bil-karozza u dritt nimtedd fuq zewgt it-twavel ghal-hajt tax-xemx. Hemda taqtaghha b’sikkina ghax ‘il-fuq minni hemm il-Germanizi tal-CABS jghassu ‘l kaccaturi. U hallieh ha jhabbat!
Eh, imma dawk tal-CABS ikollhom it-trombi.
Iva? U bnejtha illegalment, jaqaw?
Baxxter: le, kollox ghadda mis-sentejn ’torturi’ tal-Mepa. Jien cittadin ezemplari hi, kelli gorbog jidher fuq il-pjanta tal-1967 u zidt 25% maghha – ghalhekk immur rasi mistrieha. Kif jghidu bil-Malti “kollox above board”.
Ciccio: bit-trombi m’hu se jaraw xejn interessanti. Nista’ nqis li ghandi sigurta ahjar milli jipprovdu l-agenziji kollha ta’ Malta bl-ALE, l-SRT u l-SMU flimkien maghhom. Sikwit jarrestaw xi nassab jew xi kaccatur, u jien nghid “wiehed inqas”.
In fact, Daphne, the “she” is a Canadian who has spent a good number of years in Vegas. I recall her saying “the more it glitters the more I love it”.
Need I say more.
And another bit of info: the statues and the high chair in the gym are ex Caeser’s Palace auctioned stuff.
U l-aqwa t-tromba ha joqghod inemmes (sorry for the Maltese) or is that someone with a penchant for astronomy ?
Major Clews can afford two for the price of one.
I will camp out three days before the sales start to get the first one free.
That is all I can afford.
Yes, the owner had to buy his own furniture, as we say in English and that is pretty obvious.
Otherwise I like the place.
At 1400 sqm that’s the area of twelve good-sized flats.
Not bad. Very well kitted indeed I would say.
I would put in an offer at 70% of asking price.
That would be reasonable. Hovels in certain parts of Malta get sold for threehundredthousand euros nowadays.
HoweverI will try camping out the Harrod’s Sale way first .
You never know.
Dak is-ceiling fan fil-librerija?
Le, dak l-iskrun spare tal-yacht li hemm isfel fil-marina.
I’d go for Noel Coward – that priapic ivory ‘tuks’ is a dead giveaway, but then he would never choose to live in a Weatherspoons pub.
Sorry Daphne, have been away from Malta for 18 months now but still addicted to your blog and couldn’t help myself.
Maybe I should buy this penthouse just to expand my library.
These comments were such fun to read— the flat decor is a hamallata Victoria Beckham style.