Are you sick of your dull looking PC? Well if you have minimum $21,000 and have a thing for Empire Style than we have good news for you.
Georges Chirita’s , the Romanian-born entrepreneur and an electronic engineer who settled in France 22 years ago, workshop outside Paris turns out one-of-a-kind computers in polished brass and gold leaf, mounted on marble with leather-clad keyboards and mice.
“Computers used to be seen as mere work tools. But now the product has reached a kind of maturity, and it’s easier to start seeing it as a luxury object,” said the 58-year-old, whose own bookshelves heave with a mix of IT manuals and interior design books. Luxury? Framed by marble columns adorned with twisted gold or soaring eagles, Chirita’s hand-made desktop computers — in one of three styles, Louis XV, Louis XVI or Empire — positively drip with the stuff.
They also feature in-built hidden processors and a wireless mouse.
Solid gold, jewels, initials or a coat of arms embossed on the rear of the screen: the sky is the limit for the made-to-measure creations whose equally luxurious price tag starts at 17,000 euros ($21,000).
Special attention is paid to the back of the screen, Chirita explains, since these are computers for “important people who receive other important people so the back must be as attractive as the front.”
