"Manufacture de Luxe" New Website

When purchasing luxury furniture, you have to think if it's just for right now or if you'll want to hand it down through the generations. Though, If you want only the best new luxury furniture for your home, "Manufacture de Luxe" may have just what you're looking for and they've just come up with a brand new website !

Cabinets of Curiosities - AMOR - L'amour toujours

"Manufacture de Luxe" is a luxury furniture maker well-known in France for its amazing furniture and belongs to the great tradition of French decorative arts. They have produced some of the most beautiful furniture for Luxury hotels, just like Hotel Plaza Athénée, and for private clients.

OVO TUTTI FRUTTI - Coffee Table - "Emaux de Briare" mosaic tiles - Leather covered.

I really like their timeless creations that bring together the best of traditional craftsmanship with adventurous contemporary design. Just have a look on their website, they carry a wide range of furniture lines for your viewing pleasure :

TRIOMPHE - Tripod Desk

I love their Cabinets of Curiosities. Pure wonders. and my favourite items are the very sexy "Amor Hot" which sells €12,500 ($18,000) and this other cabinet, fully inlaid with mother pearl and black pearl priced at €15,000 ($21,500)... I also love their amazing chairs, and for my office, I would certainly chose the "Triomphe" (€8,800 - $12,000), a three feet desk which is very contemporary but old-style richly decorated.

FARNIENTE - Sofa

In addition, if you are looking for original pieces to decorate your rooms, they can also make you the most exceptional pieces you can imagine. Whether you already have an idea of the subject to be developed, or you are looking for a new source of inspiration, they will create the extraordinary piece that is missing from your interior.

These exceptional pieces of furniture are guaranteed for life and are also environmentally friendly : )

Stockinger and Bentley offer new line of watch and jewelry safes

Many people keep their valuables in a safe. But only a few can say they keep their valuables in a Bentley !

The exclusive German safe manufacturer Stockinger the first name in luxury safes -- has teamed up with Bentley Motors Ltd. to produce two limited edition lockboxes, each the definition of style, security and extravagant waste.

The Continental and Arnage safes are designed in the same way as all Stockinger safes and designed to be impenetrable and feature numerous security mechanisms such as built in alarms and GPS trackers. To make it clear that your safe is a luxury vault, the handle features the landmark Bentley “B” right in the center !

The Continental is designed for jewelry, while watch collectors will want the Arnage which comes equipped with state-of-the-art watch winders, whose noiseless movement is guaranteed to be maintenance free for life.

Each and every bespoke safe is carefully constructed in an 18-stage process which takes several weeks to complete. The safes are available in all standard Bentley exterior colours and you can choose from one of ten interior leather hides and three wood veneer panels.

Only two hundred of each model will be available to order exclusively through Stockinger. Exclusivity isn’t cheap. The Arnage safe costs $180,000, while the Continental safe retails for about $168,000.

A New Luxury Lighting Line

We would like to briefly introduce a world-class line of decorative indoor/outdoor spherical lights that are colorful, versatile and create an alluring setting for home and garden.

Moonlight globe lights are dramatic, contemporary lights in whole- and half-spheres from 13 to 30 inches in diameter that operate on standard household wiring, extra-long cord, hardwired or rechargeable battery with remote control.

Engineered, developed and manufactured in Germany, Moonlight has won numerous design awards

Pricing ranges from $325 to $1000.

Shown are the 350 and 550 half-globes with green and yellow filters.

Moonlight Globe lights come in half-globe shapes and can permanently mount to any hard surface. Shown are the 350-mm half globes in Granite-Dark finish, which have been mounted to the sidewalk.

Shown are the floating 350 and 550 mm sizes and the mounted 550 mm version

Shown are the 250, 350, and 550 mm sizes in white.

Moonlight Globes shown in 750 mm size.

For more information please visit the Moonlight web page.

Decorative Lighting Ideas by Rothschild and Bickers

Rothschild & Bickers combines traditional techniques with cutting edge design. The ideas to "combine a contemporary free blown form with sumptuous fabric tassel" are inspired by Victorian opulence and can be used "equally well in both modern and period interiors."

Made in one of the last glass workshops in the United Kingdom, these decorative lighting fixtures are inspired by both the past and the future.

Find a special corner of your home to welcome one of these truly precious lights – then contact Rothschild and Bickers in the London workshop. Via Trendir

Tassel Light

Inspired by Victorian decadence, these lights combine a contemporary free blown form with sumptuous fabric tassel. By blending these elements the Tassel light sits equally well in both modern and period interiors.

Black Nouveau

This opulent range of black glass is made using traditional free blown techniques to create elegant fluid forms with a shiny rich reflective quality. The open frill comes with a chrometopped bulb, which illuminates it internally and allows it to be viewed from below.

Opulent Optic

This light combines classic form and rich vibrant colours to infuse an oriental flavour. The optical glass has a precious jewel quality that emanates diffused shadows of colour through out the room.

Vintage Light

This flamboyant light is made from free blown glass with a lavish cascade of fringe.
This design embodies a sense of vintage grandeur that emphasises the flowing form.

Grande Utopia EM Loudspeakers

All of us would want speakers that symbolises the wealth we posses. Fret not, there's the Grande Utopia EM! It is an awesome speaker that takes up the responsibility of showing how grand a lifestyle you really want to live. The 4-way floorstanding bass-reflex loudspeakers are enough to make your visitors and guests feel puny and less endowed.

The Grande Utopia EM crosses the limits of decadence by offering an audio quality that is unsurpassed. It offers a mechanical adjustment in order to optimize the “Sweet Spot”, which is apparently the G-Spot of perfect listening. The drivers are another unique feature, with unmatched technology and science going in to each one of them.

If all these specifications were not enough, even King Midas would frown upon you. The speakers retails at a "loud" $180,000.

Source: Bornrich

Schimmel's Glamorous Glass Piano

This isn’t a piano you can allow your kids to flounder with! As it is, Schimmel is the brand that is behind its creation; therefore, until your tot becomes an expert pianist, you dare not allow him/her touch it. Dubbed the K213, Schimmel chooses one of the most brittle yet elegant material; glass, to enclose the exterior of the instrument.

The K213 isn’t just elegant for its design as the quality of music it rendered is equally classy. The only place where you would find iron is beneath strings that produce the magical symphony. This piano is definitely not for the space drenched halls but has pride of place in rich homes and gatherings. It just soaks in the party atmosphere while on display.

In order to add that extra bit of shimmer to the dazzlingly opulent parties, it would cost the one an estimated $124,780 to own this glamorous piano.

World's Most Expensive Piano

Jon Kuhn, a leading glass artist, has teamed up with the Bösendorfer to jazz up this musical instrument with his trademark glass work. The Kuhn-Bösendorfer model, sports more than 200 geometric patterns. Each of them is put together with 100-500 pieces of lead crystal glass which comes in varied shapes and sizes.

This classy-glassy edition is as grand as the Swarovski version but still preserve traces of modesty. The "piece of art" will retail for no less than $1.2 Million.

Sink with horizontal drain

These sinks with patented ‘Horizontal Integrated Siphon’ technology (basically a horizontal drain) were introduced by Italian company Axolute at FuoriSalone 2008 and will revolutionise your bathroom design.

The stunning polished stainless sink features the HIS system, which replaces the traditional drain pipe usually visible underneath basins. Instead, the water flows along the slot of the front of the basin and back into the wall connection.

The lack of pipes underneath makes these designs particularly effective when mounted by themselves, as well as highly convenient to be fitted over a vanity unit.

They are available now at Axolute’s website

Via Trendir

Versace For Your Home

Donatella Versace designs more than just clothing nowadays.

You can bring the luxury of Versace into your home in a new and exciting way with their Versace Home line of black and white furniture.

Simple, modern lines make this furniture line sleek, elegant and one of Donatella's best creations.

No word on pricing yet. On request the Interior Design Service at Versace Home can also plan and oversee “tailor made” interior designer projects for private homes.

$1.5 million chair by Pininfarina

Pininfarina, the Italian car design firm, is best known for their luxury car projects like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati GranTurismo but they have recently extended their design expertise to produce a top-of-the-line office chair, the Aresline Xten.

The world’s most expensive office chair costs $1.5 million and has been created for the uber rich CEO's for the Middle East luxury market.

The exorbitant price is due to expensive material used for cushioning called Technogel which conforms to the body’s contour which reduces seating pressure and fatigue by 60%. Also, Dynatec, a fabric well-liked by Olympic athletes for making you sweat free, covers the chair.

The chair is available in a variety of shades.

A $300,000 Polished steel sofa

The first auction devoted solely to contemporary design will take place at Christie's in New York this autumn.

"It really is an increasingly popular market," said Carina Villinger, design specialist of Christie's New York. "There is a huge overlap with contemporary art. It has got to the point where we need a separate auction.

The Christie's sale will feature items such as a polyurethane table by the London-based Iranian architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the aquatics centre for the London Olympics, estimated to raise $200,000.

Another lot will be a highly polished steel sofa by the British-born Israeli designer Ron Arad for $300,000. Arad's work will be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year.That sofa is made of steel that’s polished to match the reflection of a real mirror!

Via Independant

Big Time LED Watch Table

“Big Time” is a sleek and stylish giant wristwatch, which can be used as a table.

Designer Lee J. Rowland has thrown in a fully functioning watch for its surface, complete with seconds and date which can be viewed using touch buttons just like a normal watch. You can even program it to display an 8 letter message of your choosing.

In addition, you get extra-slim utility drawers and a programmable LED clock to round off the list of features.

The watch table itself is crafted from sanitized stainless steel. Priced at £18,500 ($37,000)

Hansa Colour Shower

Are you feeling blue ?

The Color Shower from Hansa is one of the most amazing showers we've seen so far. Using LED lighting, the ColourShower spray can be changed to any color of the visible light spectrum to offer an intensive, vitalising or relaxing shower experience !

It features a very easy to use Colour Control Unit for the color and spray options right on its panel. There are 4 options for the spray: Fire, Ice, Sweep and Wave, as well as 8 chromotherapy colors including white.

Prices start from $2,850 on Hansa website and you can even be adapted to your existing shower system.

The Ridemaster Pro Simulator

"Devoted equestrians can now trot and canter in the comfort of their own home thanks to the world's most advanced rocking horse.

The $80,000 virtual reality riding machine called Ridemaster Pro combines a mechanical horse with a host of electronic sensors and a screen to recreate the joys of an outdoor ride without the need for mucking out.."

Its makers, Racewood Simulators, say the Ridemaster Pro enables horse lovers to use normal riding techniques to trot, canter and prompt any number of advanced manoeuvres for those who don’t have space for a horse.

It is pretty cost effective though as you don't have any maintainance costs like food, vets, cleaning and you don't need the space or a dressage arena .

"With one of our simulators you can ride at any time of day in a centrally heated or air-conditioned environment” said company managing director Bill Greenwood. "We also sell to Scandinavian countries where the weather is miserable and raining and to Dubai where it's 40 degrees centigrade and too hot to ride."

The Ridemaster Pro comes with a screen upfront which displays a number of courses and to replicate a real horse closely, users will sit on a synthetic horse model that gives real time feedback. A calorie counter can be added.

For $80,000, you will look ultra stupid just riding away to nowhere but I admit If you want to teach large groups of completely unskilled riders the basics, this would be more cost effective than a comparable number of well-trained horses.

Via telegraph / luxurylaunches

Luxury Laundry Basket

Luxist has found a laundry basket that costs as much as some washing machines !

this ultra-sleek laundry basket from Denmark's Vipp is available in white or black lacquered steel and rubber, with soft rounded shapes that link its design to the vipp pedal bin. the lid is made from brushed stainless steel and is perforated to ensure proper air circulation.

The laundry basket has a dual-section inner bag for simple sorting and is removable as well, making it easy to carry to the washing machine. hidden rubber wheels also make the laundry basket easy to move around.

Price : $625 !

Samsung & Armani's luxury TV

Samsung Electronics and Giorgio Armani have partnered to release the first 46 - and 52-inch full HD TV Armani / PAVV TV in the Korean market.

Providing both Armani's elegant design and Samsung's cutting edge technology, the Armani/PAVV TV was first unveiled at I Saloni 2008, Milan international furniture show.

The Armani / TV PAVV supports DNIePro (Digital Natural Image engine +) chipset, WiseLink, InfoLink and 120Hz Auto Plus Motion technologies.

The luxury LCD TV will come in 46 inch for 6,990,000 Korean won ($7,000) and 52 inch for 8,690,000 Korean won ($8,750).

Luxury lighting design for luxury living

Are you the lucky owner of any penthouse that has been on the market recently? If so, you may need help to decorate it.

Though, surfing the web, we have discovered Delightfull, a Portuguese design company that makes High-end and luxury lighting design for luxury living.

In their first collection of 25 pieces, called “heritage”, they reviewed Design trends from the 50s & 60s. Divided in four categories (suspension-ceiling, floor, table and wall) their pieces are totally handcrafted in Europe and come with customized color.

Prices start at $500 but the most awesome designs that you can see below are much more expensive! Not sure exactly where you can buy all the 25 pieces but you can buy the lamps through their website though.

Ella - ceiling - $7,250 (€4,620)

Cole - Floor - $4,365 (€2,772)

Sinatra - Floor - $4,670 (€2,964)

Miles - Table - $2,535 (€1,608)

Vlaemsch() - RendezVous

Summer is in the Air so it is time to redecorate your walls and give them a “luxury touch”. Are you ready for a change?

Casimir, one of the leading designers of his generation in Belgium, has been producing and distributing furniture designs under his own name since 1995.

His designs are characterised by his use of warm, rich varieties of wood. Although his comfortable, sturdy pieces of furniture wouldn't have been unfamiliar to Breughel, Casimir's use of surrealism, through some clever optical illusions and semiotic, adds a new dimension.

He established recently the Vlaemsch()-collection. Vlaemsch() stands for Flemisch traditions, humour, design, simplicity, sensible, the surreal, no-nensense, quality and solidity, and combines creativity with the highest level of quality : quality of design and quality of product.

Casimir works together with a team of international designers and Wallpapers “RendezVous1&2” are their latest creations :

Carmen Devos for Tickle magazine said “These “naughty” patterns take their inspiration from those repetitive floral garland patterns which so many of our forebears were exceptionally fond of.

It is only upon re-focussing our eyes, inclining your head slightly to the left and humming the Brabançonne that you may discover yourself surrounded by intertwining figures, salaciously winding themselves around your walls in never-ending twists and turns of shameless sensuality.”

They are both available in three colors (black on beige, red on red and silver on beige) at their online store.
The vinyl papers come in 0.53 x 10m rolls at 70 euros each!

Buy your own Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton

Have you ever wanted a full-size Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for your own? Jurassic park is your favourite movie ever and you have 40 feet available in your studio ? then the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil replica is for you.

Made to order, the replicas are 40' long and 12' high at the hip. The position can vary based on your house's layout or where you want to keep him in your front yard. Each STAN T. rex skeleton is constructed according to your creative needs. Whether you want your skeleton walking, stalking, attacking, running, jumping or looking your visitors right in the eye!

The strong, steel support structure is hidden within the bones, allowing the eye to follow the in-motion appearance of this impressive, crowd-pleasing fossil skeleton replica.

STAN (the original fossil) is the largest, most complete, Tyrannosaurus rex, of the male morphotype, ever found. It has been discovered in what had once been the sandy bank of an ancient stream, the bones of the skeleton and skull were separated and spread over a wide area. Spring floods eventually covered the bones with mud where they remained buried for more than 65 million years. This disarticulation resulted in near perfect preservation of the skull.

Available on The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research for $100,000! only


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