Ted Turner’s secret newsroom lair looks like the saddest airport lounge ever

Proof that even in the 80s, immense wealth could not protect you from aggressive beige.

You might expect the hidden crash pad of CNN founder and billionaire media baron, yacht enthusiast, and owner of enough land to have his own zipcode, Ted Turner, to look like a Bond villain’s command deck. Instead, the newly resurfaced peek inside his secret newsroom lair suggests the design brief was “regional airport lounge where a guy angrily waits for a delayed flight to a midwestern destination.”

For a man who could have slept literally anywhere on Earth, Ted Turner apparently chose a hidden CNN perch with all the aesthetic warmth of an unplugged fax machine.