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Aug. 6th, 2009 01:40 am
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Roger Federer has monogrammed pillowcases! Observe:



They keep a special set for him at the Carlyle hotel in New York, where he stays in the 'Roger Federer Suite' when he plays the US Open. For extra opulence, everything in the suite is covered in marble, gold, leopardskin or mirrors.

"Mr. Federer apparently prefers the suite’s second bedroom, which comes with bottles of water and a plate of chocolates." The one below is the master bedroom, apparently.




To be honest I'd be worried about slipping on the marble floor and braining myself on the marble vanity unit or gold plated towel rack.


This... is not a relaxing room.

The New York Observer says:

The living room (with its white orchid, gargantuan quasi-Picasso and giant shiny black vases), was designed by a musical theater actor named J. Cameron Barnett, whose résumé's skills section lists interior decoration only after "hip-hop dance, knowledge of German, cheerleading jumps, drag.


The article is here.

Roger, I love you but your suite is demented.

Date: 2009-08-06 12:54 am (UTC)
ext_38043: (Teatime - juice_boxed)
From: [identity profile] elyndys.livejournal.com
Best icon ever. I want one!

Date: 2009-08-06 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] worldwouldend.livejournal.com
hip-hop dance, knowledge of German, cheerleading jumps, drag.

Awesome. This...is not what I had imagined whenever I read US Open fic. Ah, reality. What...what exactly is going on with the columns? Did the chair upholstery climb up onto them?

Oh, Roger. I do enjoy the pillowcase (the other side of the bed seems plain?).

Date: 2009-08-06 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iibnf.livejournal.com
Oh man, that shit's ugly.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
And it costs $3000 dollars a night!

Date: 2009-08-06 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com
that last room ... Augh! No way! It hurts kind of to look at!...and I find too much opulence really intimidating...but I guess if one is Roger Federer opulence might come second nature ...or something.

And that bathroom ..nope not childsafe at all! not at all no siree!

Date: 2009-08-06 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aramley.livejournal.com
Oh wow, loving the mirrored bedposts in the master bedroom. V classy. 0_o It took me about a minute to work out where the black toilet was in the black marble master bathroom too, so I'd hate to even think about trying to use that at about three o'clock in the morning.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:04 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-06 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I'd been picturing something a bit more... restrained. I don't know. Just not leopardskin and mirrored beds and black and gold marble bathrooms. Seriously.

I think they dressed the bed specially for the shoot, so maybe they only bothered with one set of monogrammed pillows? Or maybe Mirka feels weird sleeping on RF pillowcases.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com
eeep! HOW MUCH!!!? *sigh* still if one is RF that's probably nothing!

Date: 2009-08-06 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
Yay! That song is earworming in my headdddd. Help.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
The bathroom looks like one big messy accident waiting to happen, specially as the toilet is black, against a black background.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] worldwouldend.livejournal.com
I'm pretending he prefers the second bedroom because it isn't overwhelmingly hideous. This does not explain the suite entrance. Or the bathroom. HAHAHAROGER.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I didn't even see the black toilet until you mentioned it. It doesn't even bear thinking about.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
Oh, Rogelio. Your suite is insane.

Date: 2009-08-06 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I just love that the interior designer of the sitting room is also skilled in drag!

Date: 2009-08-06 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glass-icarus.livejournal.com
... conclusion: that interior designer should be fired. D:

Date: 2009-08-06 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quiteparadise.livejournal.com
I am so disappointed in Anna Wintour for suggesting it.

Date: 2009-08-06 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com
MEMO

From: Management, Federer [intitaled "MVF"]

To: Management, Carlyle

Re: Managing Press Inquiries

It has come to my attention that in recent months there have been several employees susceptible to "encouragement" from the media for tours of customized living quarters within the hotel. I am sure you will agree that it remains highly beneficial to all parties concerned to keep Mr. Federer's private suite truly private, given the unfortunate reactions that are all too likely to materialise among his less cosmopolitan fans toward such amenities as the trophy-shaped gags, the pink leather harness, and the Very Special Tape Dispensers that feature in his co-habitation with Mr. Nadal. To "encourage" your employees to cooperate in the preservation of the gentlemen's privacy, I propose that we engage them in the creation of and feeding to the vultures media a display too outrageous newsworthy for them to set aside; being "in" on the joke (as well as the extra bonuses I will take care to arrange) should provide sufficient inducement for all but the most rapacious to support the scheme, and I trust that your screening process will eliminate the wholly unreliable before they are ever allowed near my boys your cherished customers. For the "dummy" suite, I fancy the apartment in which Mr. Haas hosted last year's rounds of poker might be ideal...

Date: 2009-08-06 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emungere.livejournal.com
...HOLY CRAP ROGER.

your icon! i lolled in rl omg. rafa IS interactive-odular.

Date: 2009-08-06 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morebliss.livejournal.com
He's still just Rogi from the block.

Date: 2009-08-06 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emungere.livejournal.com
ps: http://s41.radikal.ru/i092/0908/d2/9416ea21dbe1.jpg

Date: 2009-08-06 06:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daegaer.livejournal.com
Wow. That's quite a suite! (It could be a sekrit lair for a supervillian).

Date: 2009-08-06 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] okmewriting.livejournal.com
My eyes hurt. I'm not rich enough to appreciate the style of this suite.

Date: 2009-08-06 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH is what I have to say to all these pictures.

RE the resumé, my better half says "OIC! This ROOM is in DRAG!"
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Date: 2009-08-06 08:38 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-06 08:44 am (UTC)
ext_36767: (the horror)
From: [identity profile] buckle-berry.livejournal.com
THAT IS THE FUCKING CLASSIEST ROOM I HAVE EVER SEEN GODDAMN

Date: 2009-08-06 09:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
Or at least helped into the nearest Home for Bewildered Designers.

Date: 2009-08-06 09:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
Ha! Too funny. I think it really is Tommy Haas's poker suite. Also, my mind is still stumbling over the concept of trophy shaped gags.

Date: 2009-08-06 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I just expected something the RF personal suite to be a little more boring tasteful boring! I don't know why. How can they relax in that living room? It's a maelstrom of pattern.

I think Rafa swallowed his banana phone. It could happen to anyone.

Date: 2009-08-06 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
D&G! That dude on the bench looks very resigned about the forthcoming anal sex. Also, that man in the middle is David Gandy, who posed in that dandy on the ground picture!

Date: 2009-08-06 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
*hands you an internets*

Date: 2009-08-06 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I think Roger might be a supervillain, judging from his taste in curtains.

Date: 2009-08-06 10:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-06 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
Ahahaha! Oh, it really is.

Date: 2009-08-06 10:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I don't even know why I'm surprised, this is a $3000 dollar a night hotel- of course it has gold plated towel rails and marble toilets! Man.

Date: 2009-08-06 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adela80.livejournal.com

God, he just gets camper and camper. That living room makes your EYES HURT.

I'm picturing his daughters in 20 yrs, head-to-toe in leapoardskin, false nails, hair extensions. . . there's no way they're going to grow up to be minimalists, is there?

Date: 2009-08-06 12:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com
Rog is an observant guy, you know? No way he wouldn't arrange something for his Rafa's metal-biting fetish.

Date: 2009-08-06 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com
That, or their idea of teenage rebellion will be to go minimalist and monochrome, with both girls displaying a psychosomatic allergy to shiny metals.

Date: 2009-08-06 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
Ugh. The pillowcases are amusingly self-indulgent and it's kind of fun of the hotel to put them on. But the rest of it? Nothing says tacky quite like faux leopardskin and black marble.

I can't believe the hotel has such appalling taste as to have one of its suites look like that.

Date: 2009-08-06 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com
..............I am imagining stepping into that room during the day with the curtains drawn and KAPOWWWWWWWWWW blindness from all of the shiny. Maybe Roger is training for those times on-court when you're basically staring into the sun?

Date: 2009-08-06 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I def think this will be the case, cringing at their parents' love of all things bling.

Date: 2009-08-06 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louiselux.livejournal.com
I know. Just because it costs a lot of money, doesn't mean it's any good.

Date: 2009-08-06 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fedal-fangirl.livejournal.com
OMFG... your icon! I read a comment once during one of Rafa's matches. It was something along the lines of, the more his hair resembles a bird's nest, the worse he is doing. I have never been able to get that bird next image out of my head. XD

Date: 2009-08-06 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niennah.livejournal.com
Holy crap. That is about the ugliest suite I've ever seen. That bathroom is so incredibly depressing! And the animal prints, dear lord.

I think I'd be looking for not just another suite, but another hotel.

Date: 2009-08-06 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niennah.livejournal.com
lol, and total coincidence using the same icon as [livejournal.com profile] kaiserkuchen!

Date: 2009-08-07 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emungere.livejournal.com
oooh awesome! i didn't know! this pic inspires me to write a sequel.

Date: 2009-08-09 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarteaucitron.livejournal.com
i shouldn't be looking at this after 7-odd g&t's. *pouchy cheeks*

Date: 2009-08-10 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com
!! dude, now I won't be able to either, heee thanks for sharing XDD

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