Around the Neighborhood – The Gucci Store!

OMG, Boston. Has Gucci ever been good to you. I mean, like really good. Name another designer that’s brought such undeniable cachet to the style of bag that bears your name, and I’ll name you a liar. Even Paris Hilton can’t resist the allure (and BTW, don’t go blaming Gucci for the heiress’s recent trampery in the Hub. We all know whose fault that was.)

Anyway, Boston, it’s time to give back; specifically, by buying stuff at Gucci as much as possible. Or, if that’s too close to the South End for you (though it’s still technically in Back Bay), you can just hit up Needless Markups on the other side of the Pike instead. And what better way to shop at these places than by living near them?

I bet you think it’ll put you back seven figures to bed down walking-in-pumps distance from these two stores, right? Not even! This 21st century condo with the oh-so-hip addy of 1 Huntington Avenue features a not-entirely unreasonable $886/square foot for its 846 square feet, and all that fancy stuff that people move into condo towers for.

Of course, this is still Boston. And perhaps the stylish Bostonian would find themselves more comfortable in this classic loft restoration. Literally overlooking the Copley T stop, this unspeakably roomy property allows you to watch the finish of the Boston Marathon from your living room window, and have one bathroom exclusively for bathing, saving the other entirely for makeup.

But there’s more to fabulous style than dollars and cents, as this almost passably affordable Comm Ave one-bed shows. While it lacks the polish and refinement of the previous two locations, it still presents some fine appliances, a doorman, exposed brick that probably wasn’t the result of rotting drywall, and all sorts of other amenities normally found in far more expensive residences. Kinda the real estate equivalent of the designer knockoff.

image: HK QRC Central Gucci Entertainment House, derived from 港中區中環娛樂行 by Wikimedia Commons user Saiyans16, under the GNU Free Documentation License.