This Week's Lucky Dip – Gold, Ink, Films and Artists' Houses

Let's start with a bit of fun for your eyes: a unique property in Budapest's District II (Buda side). Budapest has all the trappings of London at a fraction of the price. Click here to flick through the thumbnail pictures and say wow! Ask yourself, a shoebox in London or this? But we'll move on.

Our latest typewriter initiative hasn't been ignored. Quite the opposite. In honour of our efforts Louis Vuitton has erected a new display filling two large windows. No less than three golden typewriters, suspended with wires, reflect the glare in their shop window. Do customers of those guarded designer shops even use pens? Pah! What use are pens, I ask you, when the panache of a golden intellectual can be purchased for an artificial price... But let's enjoy the image below of this pimping out. We can enjoy it in isolation.

What will become of those poor glazed machines we could wonder. A spiralling drug habit and never mark a page again? But that's ok, since they're shiny and gold... so all is well and happy. Here's the photo; someone's been busy typing in French – typing letters that will not be sent. Attention gold-loving designer, where are the envelopes? Your concept of stationery is 50% incomplete. Adding golden envelopes to the mix might sell your handbags better. I'll be sure to send across a consignment while you're scolding yourself.

Yet this display is no surprise; the typewriter has a history of stealing the show. Recall these fully operational stars for a moment:

• The machine that facilitated Jack Torrance's journey into madness in Kubrick's 'The Shining'
• The chucked about 'War is good business' red typewriter that lent Raoul Duke the real gonzo journalist persona as he carried it about with him in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'
• The solemn Stasi typewriter, set up in an attic, that recorded the subversive discussions of the artists in 'The Lives of Others', and the little portable one hidden under the floorboards  (Trailer)
• The big Underwood that transcribed the misery of lost love in Baz Luhrmann's explosive 'Moulin Rouge'

Typewriters everywhere, we salute your beautiful weight! Make it by your clacking sound that we're kept awake through the night. It's the finest form of neighbour-noise; a lucky disturbance. We revel in the sound that's unknown in LV's windows.

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