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]
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.
Anyone else getting the beta login prompt? What’s up, Joel, are we getting bbgadgets 2.0?
Yeah, looks like the img traumsafe.jpg is behind HTTP authentication
@JOEBROWN
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.
