You had the plush English heritage cinema, spearheaded by Merchant-Ivory and then later modified by films such as Notting Hill.
Christiane Felscherinow is seated very comfortably in a plush sofa in the office of her publishers.
Whilst the mounting skepticism surrounding corruption prevents large amounts of financial aid from getting through, concerns are also growing that larger NGOs are flitting away money on unnecessary luxuries such as SUVs and plush hotels.
Investment banks, magic circle law firms and international consultancies are permanent fixtures at Accra's plush hotels, where they are literally queuing up to tout for business.
Its sleek and state-of-the-art towers offer butler services, designer toiletries, entire floors reserved for Saudi royalty, wet rooms, helipads, quality linens, plush carpets and thick bathrobes.
Draped across the crimson plush sill of a box in the lower circle is a banner that reads "How Sad is Prudence".
There is one particularly good scene in a plush hotel where the waiter asks Finney: "Are you still working, sir, or do you just do the writing now?" Objectively viewed, you could say Delaney's career never fulfilled its initial promise.
I met Rahman in his plush office at Tower Hamlets Town Hall, which is located in the wealthy Docklands part of this borough of economic extremes.
It has four airy bedrooms, sleeping eight – each filled with plush Moroccan carpets, antique chests and with gorgeous en-suite bathrooms – which open out on to a central, open-roofed courtyard with two fountains.
The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants".
Of those grinning down on us, the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Slash, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top and Jeff Beck have all recorded at the hotel's plush NightBird recording studios.
