Design expert identifies Trump's prefered style of interior design as "Dictator Chic"
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/dictator-chic-donald-trumps-over-the-top-style-has-a-name-and-hes-not-going-to-like-it/“Dictator style” is what journalist and author Peter York dubbed Trump’s glittering, gold everywhere, marble-and-frescoes interior design aesthetic in an essay for Politico on Sunday, writing that Trump’s residence in Trump Tower is exactly the sort of place in which ruthless dictators around the world like to ensconce themselves.
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In 2007, York published the book “Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World’s Most Colorful Despots,” in which he examined “what makes dictators’ houses so recognizably similar.”
“I ended up with 16 case studies — strongmen from Mexico’s Porfirio Díaz to Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic — and most of them, I concluded, obeyed 10 defining ‘dictator chic’ rules,” he said.
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After his book came out, York was deluged with photos of every dictator’s residence that was discovered as their empires collapsed. In 2015, though, he came across a set of unlabeled photos that he didn’t recognize.
“They appeared to show a gigantic apartment in what looked, from the windows, very much like New York. But I know Manhattan and its sophisticated style pretty well, and at first glance, you would think the place didn’t belong to an American but to a Russian oligarch, or possibly a Saudi prince with a second home in the United States,” he said.
“There were overscaled rooms, and obviously incorrect-looking historical detailing and proportions. The home had lots of gilded French furniture and the strange impersonal look of a hotel lobby, with chairs and sofas placed uncomfortably far from one another. There were masses of gold; there were the usual huge chandeliers, branded relics of famous sportsmen like Muhammad Ali, and mushroom-colored marble floors. There was relatively little in the way of paintings, but otherwise, the place reeked of dictator chic,” he said.
That residence turned out to be Donald Trump’s Trump Tower penthouse, decorated by “Henry Conversano, who designed extensively—and perhaps unsurprisingly—for casinos. No matter how you looked at it, the main thing this apartment said was, ‘I am tremendously rich and unthinkably powerful.’ This was the visual language of public, not private, space. It was the language of the Eastern European and Middle Eastern nouveau riche.”
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Showing off wealth.
Pseudo-historical designs.
Toxic masculinity.
Nouveau riche.
It's fake. Everything is fake. Trump's style tells us he's a person who puts glamour over substance.
And it's perfectly in line with Vanity Fair's culinary critique of his restaurant: The dishes show none of the skills or sophistication of a real high-scale restaurant, with expensive ingredients desperately slapped together, as if expensive ingredients automatically lead to a tasty dish. An uncouth person's idea what fancy cuisine looks like.
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Saddon's Palace?
Wasn't a big thing made out of Saddam's Palace being ostentatious?
https://aboutcampdavid.blogspot.com/2010/08/aspen-lodge-presidents-cabin-at-camp.html
nice collection of pictures @ the link
'chic' to describe Trump's home but I'm not a professional designer. I can easily see how Trump's home reeks of a dictator type of OTT style, I just use cold and uber tacky instead of 'chic'. 
OTOH that style certainly does accurately reflect Trump's mentality since he seems to really like it that 'style'. He probably envisions himself as a modern King Midas (while forgetting the lesson of that myth). 
in the versions of the Greek myth I've read Midas didn't die from starvation because of his golden touch. If he hadn't prayed to Dionysus to have it reversed, after turning his child to gold, he probably would have eventually though. 
...can be seen in the yellow-dyed hair and yellow-orange spray tan--he's even trying to turn himself gold!
It calls attention but that apartment is a tasteless mass of vulgar kitsch.
A tawdry, inelegant mess - just like its owner.
I was also thinking "Enemy of Mother Earth" style. 
