"Just send in a pre-addressed envelope with all of your unwanted gold. . . get your cash instantly"
Yeah, uh-huh. The above quote is from a long running infomercial on how to get cash for your gold, if only this kind of service was available for the exteriors/interiors of buildings in New York.
Gold = Fancy is one of our favorite jokes in office and for good reason. Take a stroll down almost any residential street in the city and there it is, shiny and inviting, painted on banisters, doors, corbels, basically on any exterior design element: gold. Sometimes this faux-riche color is laughable (I have to admit I laugh at it all the time) but it is used time and again in building renovations. Maybe I'm missing something? Could gold represent some sort of romantic Etruscan-Italian fantasy? A villa perhaps? Could gold represent a quotation of opulence from Beax-Arts France? To be honest I just don't know, but I will let you be the judge.
Just don't judge a book by it's cover:
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