Interior design’s premiere magazine, and perennial coffee table presence for ladies who lunch, Architectural Digest features a profile of a private jet (a Boeing 727) in this February’s issue. The 727’s owner, who remains unnamed in the article, hired noted Los Angeles interior designer Craig Wright to outfit the wide-body plane in high style, and the spread gives a glimpse into luxury living at 35,000 feet.
All the luxurious amenities one would expect to find aboard a private jet are present and accounted for—a bathroom with shower, sleeping room for ten—but it’s the small touches here that make all the difference. The jet’s interior is decorated in a “palette of saddle-tones,” reflecting, naturally, its owner’s penchant for polo. Casual refining touches serve to separate the merely super-rich from the truly distinguished: mohair banquettes and bulkheads, Hermès stitching across the leather chairs and, of course, the finest bone china.
Among the more luxurious appointments depicted in the article’s accompanying photo gallery is the plane’s built in caviar bar, laid out in the photo with a sumptuous service of pearls of osetra. Cooling ain a vermeil-plated tray along side a bucket of iced Cristal, it looks like the perfect mid-flight snack.
And the owner of this 727 will never suffer from jet-lag: the plane’s main stateroom contains a queen-sized bed, draped with a faux-fur throw cover. Still, there is some begrudging acknowledgment that in-air suite design does come with limitations. The Lalique-inspired light fixtures are, for instance, cast of resin instead of crystal. Elaborate glass lighting and 35,000 feet cruising altitudes apparently don’t mix.

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