Architectural photographer Iwan Baan recently shot the Universe House, a beach house in Mexico barely higher than the rock it sits on, with a pool on the roof.
The house was designed by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco and built by architect Tatiana Bilbao. Via Propgo Luxury.
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Dolce & Gabbana have launched Rose The One, a new rose-centered flanker to 2006’s Dolce & Gabbana The One fragrance for women, based around the idea of a rose perfume.
The image of the perfume will be embodied by Scarlett Johansson, who was made to look like a total strawberry blonde to go with the fragrance and the strawberries she is eating in the commercial.
Stefano Gabbana told WWD: “For Domenico and myself, roses have always been our favorite flowers, our gardens are full of roses in every color and type.”
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With a price tag of $3.2 million, the new iPhone 3GS Supreme launched yesterday by Stuart Hughes could be the world’s most expensive phone.
The handset was made for an anonymous Australian businessman with 271 grams of 22ct solid yellow gold and 136 flawless F-color diamonds totalizing 68ct.
The Apple logo is made from solid gold and decorated with 53 diamonds of 1ct, while the front navigation button consists of a single 7.1ct diamond.
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Last year Louis Vuitton covered the entire façade of the Fifth Avenue Maison with Takashi Murakami’s iconic Monogram Multicolore print.
This year, the store façade display is inspired by the city stamp artwork that Ruben Toledo designed for the Louis Vuitton City Guides
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Paul Smith teamed up with Japanese bicycle saddle specialist, Kashimax, on a limited edition leahtersaddle covered in Smith’s signature stripes.
Only 20 will be available at Paul Smith’s “Space” store in Japan as well his Floral St. store in London.
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One of the UKs most famous internet fishmonger, The Fish Society, have just launched the most expensive seafood hamper in the world.
At £2,500, their “Caviar & Crustacean Atomic hamper” will feed a party of 30 seafood lovers at a cost of around £70 per head – just in time for Christmas.
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Damien Hirst is one of six people who were asked in 2008 by Louis Vuitton to dream up a unique item embodying their professional expertise.
The designs were produced at the company’s workshop in Asnieres, near Paris, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.
Official news and images have now been revealed, and the twin trunks created by the English Art Superstar are more impressive than we first thought.
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Michelin has added a cheap restaurant category to its new Hong Kong and Macau guide unveiled Thursday, after critics accused the culinary bible of ignoring the cities’ food-stall culture.
Twenty-nine “simple shop” restaurants received star ratings in the guide’s second edition, with its highest three-star rating awarded to a pair of French restaurants and one Chinese in Hong Kong and another in nearby Macau.
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At Baselworld 2010, Glashütte Original will present their rose gold Pocket Watch No. 1 with quarter hour repetition in a limited edition of 25 pieces.
A historical watch by Julius Assmann, a famous pioneer of the Glashütte watchmaking industry, served as the model.
One particularly striking feature of this watch is the quarter-hour repetition, which announces the quarter hours and hours acoustically.
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Cadillac officially announced the 2011 CTS Coupe Monday morning, promising to show the car publicly next week at the Los Angeles auto show.
First shown in concept form nearly two years ago, the car was originally expected to be launched earlier this year.
Cadillac CTS Coupe will come with a 3.6-liter V-6 engine, rated at 304 horsepower. A higher horsepower V-Series will is also planned.
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Looking for the perfect gift for someone who has (almost) everything?
Then the December issue of Robb Report is a must-have with its exclusive “Ultimate Gift Guide,” perfect for those for whom cost is no object.
And this year, the world’s most expensive gift is a matching custom private jet and megayacht set costing $500 million.
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Swarovski, recently unveiled the newly refurbished crystal star that will crown the 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
The star is high-tech: it has enhancements such as a new cutting-edge computerized lighting system and energy-efficient LED bulbs.
This is the first year that the Swarovski star, which debuted at the top of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 2004, will feature dynamic light movement.
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The 31-year old supermodel Marisa Miller was chosen to model this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra, designed by Italian jewelry house Damiani.
The $3 million bra was covered in 150 carats of stones, including a 16-carat heart-shaped stone. “It’s like being a princess,†Marisa told Us Weekly.
Sadly, the recession appears to have hit the diamond bra business quite hard. In 2006 the diamond bra was covered in $5.6 million in diamonds.
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Car maker Mercedes-Benz will debut new in-car technology that allows multiple media to be shown on one screen at Los Angeles Auto Show 2009.
The technology will dramatically increase the safety of in-car entertainment by limiting multimedia images to the passenger.
Splitview delivers multiple images from one screen, depending on the direction from which the screen is viewed.
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China’s southern Hainan island is playing up its tropical climate in a major plan to position itself as a “golf island”, the capital of the sport in China.
Golf courses have sprouted like mushrooms across the country as the sport catches on, but no place has hitched its wagon to the sport’s boom quite like Hainan, which resembles an oval golf green on a map of the South China Sea.
A decade ago, there were no golf courses here; today there are more than 20 and long-term goals include an eventual 100 courses.
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This Blackbird Rider Carbon Fiber Travel Guitar is the brainchild of Joe Luttwak, a designer who spent some time working for Ferrari in Maranello.
Based on Blackbird Guitars’ high-performance Rider travel guitar, it is the first instrument fit for the Ferrari namesake.
The Ferrari version of the carbon fiber guitar sports a red A string, a Maranello Red interior, and is finished off with a Scuderia emblem on the head.
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Petrus, Romanee-Conti, Chateau d’Yquem — wines coveted by connoisseurs, and targeted by counterfeiters.
According to French wine professionals, a handful of rare and fine wines face the same threat from fraud as luxury handbags and designer sunglasses.
Trafficking in fake wine has “always existed a little, but it’s definitely amplified with the rising prices of fine wines”.
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Fragment design’s Hiroshi Fujiwara has teamed up with Rolex and Bamford Watch Department on a new Oyster Perpetual Explorer watch.
The Oyster Perpetual Explorer gets the blacked out treatment with blue detailing seen on the 3, 6 and 9 hour markers, the second hand and the fragment logo.
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Currently under construction at Gentech Yachts’ Antalya, Turkey shipyard is the 46-metre Soroya, due to be completed in time for the 2010 Monaco Yacht Show.
Hydraulics are a key component of the luxury craft, which features both a pop-up helipad and a swimming pad that unfolds to double in size.
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