反恐

Purveyors of a place of safety
爲豪宅建「地堡」


緊急避難室是一個不斷成長的市場,其推動因素是富豪們對恐怖主義、搶劫和綁架的擔憂。如果你花了3000萬美元購置宅邸,再掏20萬美元配備一間避難室,真不算什麼。

When Paul Weldon, a joiner by trade, visits clients he is transported to another world: one resplendent with wealth. “It’s surreal,” he says. The 50-year-old designs and installs panic rooms — places to hide from intruders or kidnappers until security or the police arrive — in the homes of prosperous families. On one trip to visit a client in a “poor country” (discretion is everything in his profession), he was struck by the disparity between the fleet of white Rolls-Royces inside the private estate’s perimeter and the scale of the poverty outside.

每當木匠保羅•韋爾登(Paul Weldon,見上圖)拜訪客戶的時候,他就像是踏入了另一番天地:一個富麗堂皇的世界。「一切都很超現實,」他說。現年50歲的韋爾登爲富豪的住宅設計和安裝緊急避難室,讓主人一家暫時躲過闖入者或綁架者,等待保安或者警方到來。有一次去某個「窮國」拜訪一名客戶(在他這一行,爲客戶保密是一切)時,他對客戶私人宅邸圍牆內的白色勞斯萊斯車隊和一牆之外的貧困程度之間的巨大反差深感震驚。

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