Don't get me wrong it would totally be about ego and about how excellent your own design tastes are. You'd name all the stuff after yourself. That's why it'd

Don't get me wrong it would totally be about ego and about how excellent your own design tastes are. You'd name all the stuff after yourself. That's why it'd be considered art :D Some of the robber barons did some interesting eccentricities like Carnegie libraries. The Long Now clock is the most recent thing I can think of.