Gilt Safes Lined with Exotic Wood
Perhaps the ultimate accessory for the gilded wealthy: the ostentatiously obvious gold-plated safe. Traum manufacturers a variety of custom-built safes with modern designs, constructred from high-end materials including exotic woods. Perhaps the company would be better named "Taunt," every safe topped with a golden fist with a middle finger upturned to thieves.
If you can consider purchasing one, you aren't concerned with the price.
Company Page [TraumSafe.com via Cool Hunting]
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Yup. Thought I was nuts for a second - where are the pictures?
Me like pictures. Words hurt brain. Owee.
I would very much like a gold plated safe. I finally would have a place for all my gold plated items such as gold plated kruggerands and gold plated cheque signing pen and gold plated cheques - which are also made from old thousand dollar bills.
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Gold plating is the cheapest part -- it's thinner than edible gold foil or decorative gold leaf, in most cases. (Didn't know about edible gold? It's a traditional topping for high-end sweets in India, and it's only a few molecules thick so it's not all that expensive.)
The woods, and the craftsman time to make this pretty, are what you're really paying for.
Of course you *could* get a suitable sized safe and a plating kit, take those into your woodshop, and do this yourself. Which is probably how the idea got started -- someone did a one-off on commission, and the manufacturer said "hey, we may not sell many but it makes a great display piece and we'll get some word-of-mouth advertising out of it."
Of course it's a bit over the top. But no more so than any other furnishings with rare woods and gold plating. If you need a safe (and some folks legitimately do), and aren't going the hide-it-away route, why _not_ make it decorative?
Heck, this is probably cheaper than all the fancy bronzework on bank vault doors... though I must admit those collections of oversized gears and shafts with engraved scrollwork are more to my personal taste.