Upscale French artisan ice-cream maker Philippe Faur has taken take out the ice cream of the universe of the desserts and he indefatigably works In his workshop to create new flavours always more surprising.
After such original products as the Truffle Ice-Cream, the Roquefort ice-cream or the Foie Gras de Canard sorbet developed with Rougié (Prix International de l'Innovation 2007), he has recently made his idea of creating a caviar sorbet come true thanks to a collaboration with Alverta Royal Petrossian.
This ice-cream which contains 60% caviar, from a white sturgeon, took both specialists 6 months to develop and it is is recommended to accompany smoked salmon, scallops or simply a baked potato…
Though, it is reported to possess all the organoleptic qualities of caviar, including in the way it evolves in the mouth It is reported to be a world premiere and unsurprisingly has now become the most expensive ice cream in the world!
Unfortunately, although international customers might be numerous, the ice-creams so far are only shipped within France in a special packaging that prevents them from melting for 72 hours. A 100 ml tub is priced at 118 €. A 15 ml sample size is also available for 18 €.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Philippe Faur - Caviar Ice-cream
World’s most expensive iPhone - Amosu
If you thought an iPhone 3G is little too expensive, then you probably won’t buy the new Amosu Ultimo Diamond iphone, set with 1179 dazzling 16.18 carat diamond.
It has an extra $177,100 put on the price and is therefore the new world’s most expensive iPhone.
Elegantly set with handcrafted skill, It features 458 diamonds caked around the flat-front face.
The rear bottom case is made of 18 carat solid white gold encrusted with 660 diamonds and the apple logo has 61 diamonds.
The owner of the Amosu Ultimo Diamond Iphone will receive one year’s complimentary VIP International Concierge Service, focused on ‘accessing the inaccessible’.
Also the owner will become a owner of Luxury Network VIP Privilege card that is accepted by Lamborghini UK, Bombardier Skyjet International, Sunseeker Yachts, Oliver Sweeney, Holland and Holland, Selfridges and Ascot Horse racing.
This ostentious dazzling god-phone comes in a luxury wooden box.
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Harrods launches Swarovski-studded chocolates
Harrods is set to launch a range of £5000 ($10,000) Swarovski-studded chocolates, with exclusively designed packaging by Lebanese chocolatier, Patchi.
The super-premium packaging, in which the 49 chocolates are hand-wrapped in Indian silk and placed on suede leather partitioned with gold and platinum, was created by Patchi’s in-house design team.
Each and every chocolate is adorned with gold and Swarovski crystal and silk rose. These are then placed in a stunning box made of genuine leather and magnificent hand woven silk from India and China.
A Harrods spokesperson says, ‘A number of our customers have actually asked for a product such as this which has the “wow” factor.’
The chocolates are part of Harrods’ exclusive new range of ‘High Life’ products, which will launch next month. Unlike the Royal Collection from Cocoa Gourmet that sported edible gold and diamonds, Im not sure you can actually swallow the crystals...
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$80,000 Arowana Aquarium Fish
Yesterday, some of you, reading our post on NYC aquariums, were probably wondering how come a simple fish can be as expensive as a luxury car. Here is the answer !
The fish that was getting all the attention at Aquarama 2007, and is considered by some to be the most expensive aquarium fish in the world, is a 15" platinum arowana .This particular aquatic vertebrate is owned by Aro Dynasty, a Dragon fish breeder based out of Singapore.
Its white coloration is an exceedingly rare mutation of the rather common arowana. Arowanas are not usually so pricey, but this platinum-colored mutation is unique in its own way. This fish is of the species Osteoglossum that are mostly found in South America. 
The fish measures around 40cm/15" in length, and looks stunning. It is, however, not entirely perfect because It does have one minor flaw. The fish’s right eye is starting to look downwards. This is a common problem with arowanas and in fact many keepers are paying for cosmetic surgery for their prized arowanas.
It was recently offered for sale to prospective buyers by a UK arowana importer for more than £200,000 ($300,000). However, Aro Dynasty told Practical Fishkeeping Online that the fish is now "off the market." It confirmed that it turned down S$80,000 for the fish a few years ago.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
The Rolls Royce Of Olive Oils
λ /lambda/, is an ultra premium olive oil that has been referred to by critics as the “Rolls Royce” of olive oils. It has just been awarded a Silver World Medal in the prestigious New York Festivals awards for its stunning packaging.
Made exclusively by Speiron, the Greek boutique company dedicated in developing ultra premium products, λ /lambda/ is the first ultra premium extra virgin olive oil in the world.
Produced with the finest Koroneiki olives from the award-winning Kritsa region of Greece, /lambda/ impresses with its superior taste. /lambda/ is created through the unique process of common pressing, where carefully selected olives are hand-picked from the tree and pressed the very same day.
This method of pressing ensures that the olives are turned to oil within a maximum of 8-10 hours after picking, giving the oil an unrivalled fresh and intensely fruity taste.
/lambda/ has one of the lowest levels of acidity with a maximum of 0.3°, giving it a tender flavour restricted only to the highest quality extra virgin olive oils. The cold extraction of the oil lends itself to a superior flavour which along with the unfiltered nature of /lambda/ produces a flavoursome olive oil with medium peppery notes.
λ /lambda/ is available online and comes in a two pack for $104 and a exquisite gift box for $182.
World's most expensive magazine
Shot by famous celebrity photographer Avinash Gowariker, the cover of Kohl, a recently launched ITP lifestyle magazine targeting Asian women, features Indian actress Katrina Kaif, who is the star of many Bollywood hits and was voted the Sexiest Woman by a famous international magazine.
Thanks to the alliance with an established UAE-based jeweler Damas, the face of the magazine comes dipped in 91 grams of gold and festooned with 622 diamonds. Total 86 hours were invested by Damas craftsmen to hand-apply layers of gold leaf to a specially-treated gold-edition of the exclusive magazine.
The special edition of the magazine was unveiled for the very first time at an official press conference on 24 June, in the Borders outlet in Mall of the Emirates. It is said to be the world's most expensive magazine and worth over $10,000.
The magazine is set to be showcased at many of the Damas stores throughout the GGC till October and is anticipated to undergo auction for the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre in October 2008.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Luxury aquarium : hand-pick your exotic fish and take it home
NYC-based Okeanos Aquascaping, is an international custom aquarium and pond company specializing in the integration of cutting edge designs, hand-picked exotic fish, coral and other livestock, brilliant colors, and mesmerizing effects.
Sure, you could go to a beach or an aquarium anytime to see exotic aquatic life. But you guys deserve the finest luxuries in life, right ? So why not take a trip or build a customized aquarium in your home?
Okeanos is now offering five-star experiential vacations where customers can travel with Okeanos' staff around the world to see exotic fish, coral and other livestock in its natural habitats.
The client will have the opportunity to pick out the fish, coral and livestock that he/she wishes, and Okeanos will replicate the environment in the customer's location of choice.
That sounds very “luxury” though… but a bit selfish too (bad joke…time to sleep). Although fish must not really suffer in such big aquariums, I just hope I’m not actually doing publicity for a company which brings back some endangered species home! And unfortunately at $100,000 each, I guess we cannot find this kind of fish everywhere…
Though, if customers get bored with their luxury fish, they can still turn them into the world’s most expensive sushis, we will be glad to feature them once again on Luxuo ^_^
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$62,000 Diamond-Studded Lipstick
Finding the right shade of lipstick has been expensive lately…
French cosmetics house Guerlain released in November KissKiss Gold and Diamonds which comes wrapped in a 110-gram, 18-karat gold tube encrusted with 199 conflict-free diamonds weighing 2.2 carats, rubies and emeralds.
For this price, the buyer will also get a personal appointment with Guerlain's artistic director Olivier Echaudemaison, to develop a custom-made shade of lipstick.
It can be engraved and comes in a black lacquer case with a suede pouch. they are sold exclusively through private consultations at Bergdorf Goodman.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Yu by Mane : a $5,000 Perfume
Mane has launched Yu which means rain in Chinese, one of the most expensive fragrances available on the market today at $5000. It was composed by nose Cecile Krakower of Mane.
New York Times perfume critic, Chandler Burr said “It’s actually very interesting, aesthetically gorgeous. You can smell the money in it. It’s almost a fresh quality, like using a very good toothpaste.” But he thinks that the perfume is not really worth it: “$5,000 is marketing, just increases the marketing campaign.”
Only 500 bottles of the scent were produced and are currently available at the high-end department store Bergdorf Goodman.
It will also be for sale at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong this summer and in select Nordstrom stores in the fall.
The world’s most expensive Christmas ornament
Although christmas is still six-months away I can’t help myself featuring this piece of art.
The Christmas tree ball on the picture above is supposed to be the world’s most expensive Christmas ornament, in the Krebs Glas Lauscha GmbH company.
The transparent glass ball is decorated with finely sculpted solid 12 karat gold and 120 diamonds of the clarity VS1 with a total weight of 5.1 carats.
The price of the bauble in shops will be 20,000 Euro ($31,400) – It must be really fragile so you’d better keep your kids away from the tree and lock them in their bedroom during Christmas Eve ^_^ (Source)
Friday, July 18, 2008
Most Expensive Speeches
Bill Zanker, founder and president of the Learning Annex. Zanker hired Donald Trump in 2005 to speak at three real estate investing seminars for $1 million per speech.
Those went so well that the company proceeded to hire him for another 17 seminars in 2006-07 for $1.5 million each. Zanker claims that he's turned a profit on every event, where admission prices top out around $500”
"He's worth every penny,'' Zanker says. "I've been doing this for 30 years. There is no better business speaker than Donald Trump. He attracts the biggest crowds in the world."
Former president Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was paid $2 million by media company Fujisankei Communications for two speeches and a handful of press interviews during a tour of Japan. Adjusting for inflation reveals that he was paid over $1.7 million per speech in today’s currency so we may consider these the most expensive speeches ever made.
Another former president, Bill Clinton generated $10.2 million in speaking fees in 2006 (the most recent year for which public records are available); he remains one of most popular top-tier speakers around !
Learning Annex even offered Paris Hilton a million dollars last year to speak at a Learning Annex seminar on building your own brand. She turned him down. "I thought she was a brilliant brander, but I think I was a little ahead of her." Bill Zanker said…
Backgammon Set made of alligator
Whether you're a backgammon champion or have never played you will love this luxury Backgammon Set made of alligator.
Supplier of the boards for the World Championships, Max Parker (son of the eponymous Geoffrey) has personally created this Geoffrey Parker branded set exclusively for 20ltd.com
The alligator case opens to reveal a hand inlaid Shagreen playing field which is complimented by sterling silver Shagreen game pieces and alligator wrapped dice cups.
A Sterling silver disc above the carrying handle is engraved disc with the limited edition number.
Priced at $18,000 - Only 20 editions will ever be made
Most Expensive Watch in the World
Chopard, a Switzerland located company, has released the worlds most expensive watch.
The Chopard 201-carat Watch costs $25 million dollars and features three heart-shaped diamonds, the pink weighs 15 carats, the blue weighs 12 carats and the white weighs 11 carats.
In addition to those the watch bracelet comes festooned in 163 carats of white and yellow flower-like diamonds.
The watch has a spring-loaded mechanism which, when pressed, allows the three heart shapes to mechanically open up to see the time !
I guess, if anyone buys, this might be just for the title of owning the world’s most expensive watch because it looks really gaudy!
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
$20 Million Baby Photos
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie had the twins by caesarean section on Saturday evening at the Lenval hospital on the glamorous Promenade des Anglais waterfront drive in Nice.
Miss Jolie arrived at the Lenval hospital in late June, provoking a media circus with photographers desperate for a picture of the mother-to-be. Though, the bidding war has already begun for the first photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, the “world’s most famous children.”
French newspapers have reported that an American magazine has already offered $20m for the first and exclusive images of the new babies - with all the money going to a worthy cause.
"I've never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money," said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a celebrity photo agency in London. The only other photos that "would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien", he said.
Angelina Jolie is expected to stay and rest at the exclusive Lenval hospital in Nice for the next few days and is already enjoying specially couriered-in food for her stay. The actress is then expected to depart as she arrived - in a helicopter taking off from the roof of the building, most likely in the dead of night to avoid being photographed. 
The arrival of the twins brings the couple's family to six. They are already parents to three adopted children: Cambodian boy Maddox, six, Vietnamese boy Pax Thien, four, and Ethiopian girl Zahara, three.
Their natural daughter Shiloh was born in Namibia in 2006. After her birth, the couple auctioned off the photo shoot to People magazine in the US and Hello! in Britain for $10m with an undisclosed charity benefiting.
The mayor, Christian Estrosi, seized the opportunity to promote his city by arriving at the hospital to sign the birth certificates wearing a smart suit and full make-up for the TV cameras.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Most Expensive Record
Question : What is the most expensive record in the world?
Answer : An early disc created by three of the original Beatles has become England's most expensive record of all time and has an estimated value of £100,000 ($200,000).
Recorded in 1958 by the band Quarry Men, (Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Colin Hanton and John Duff Lowe), the first pressing of their version of “That'll Be The Day” would be a jewel in any collection.
Most members of the band attended Quarry Banks grammar school, from which they derived the name. The band lasted until 1958, when Lowe and Hanton left the group.
After that, the group went through several names before settling on The Beatles.
Sir Paul McCartney owns the first pressing. Record Collector, a magazine, arrived at the £100,000 figure through information from experts, collectors and dealers.
The expensive single also contains an original B-side by McCartney and Harrison, “In Spite of All the Danger.”
Malibu home for $65 million
William J. Chadwick, a managing director of the real estate investment banking and capital management firm Chadwick Saylor & Co., has listed his 10,500-square-foot home in Malibu at $65 million (a city record), the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Chadwick purchased the land on which the house was built from Pepperdine University in April 2002 for exactly $2,000,000 only, according to public records.
The estate includes 150 feet of beach front, a 75-foot pool and spa, state-of-the-art home theater, a wine cellar, six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, a pub, a gymnasium a paneled office, a spa, and a home theater that seats 16, according to listing information and the Times. Other features include a wine cellar and a full wall-size aquarium, the Times reported
Check out an online listing sheet for Chadwick’s estate – complete with photos
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
La Leopolda becomes world's most expensive house at $500 million
The saga of world’s most expensive house started over at luxuo with Updown Court, the most expensive mansion in the world and the 100 Million Dollars Trump's Palm Beach Mansion. As a matter of fact, one of our reader, who left a comment, was right : some villas on the French Riviera might be even more expensive !
Various sources said Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend Daria Zhukova have just bought a home in France for $500 million. The home in question, La Leopolda, is an elaborate villa located on the French Riviera... which has become the world’s most expensive house !
Originally built for Belgian king Leopolds mistresses, La Leopolda was once the home of famous people including late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli.
Known to hold the best sea views in the south of France, the villa sits on 10 acres of immaculate grounds that run right down to the resort of Villefranche.
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The most expensive LCD TV in the world
Here is an item that was displayed for the first time at Berlin's International Consumer Electronics Fair in 2006.
Italian maker Keymat Industries produced this most expensive LCD panel in the world. It is not the technology behind it that makes it uber-expensive, but the diamonds around it.
Studded with four grams of diamonds (the 40 inch model has 160 real diamonds embedded around the screen), and plated with white gold, the YALOS Diamond LCD is available in 26, 32, 37, 40 and 46 inch sizes. The 40 inch model costs $150,000.
With so much diamonds around the screen, I’m wondering how I could keep my focus on any TV program ! (Luckily, I can’t afford it).
Monday, July 14, 2008
Most expensive six-pack
A special limited edition collection of the new Stella Artois Nobilis beer (which looks a bit like bottles of Champagne on the picture above) recently sold for $15,000CDN ($14,851 ) making it the world's most expensive six-pack.
Purchaser AOL Canada planned to share the expensive beer with their employees over the holidays while the proceeds will benefit WildAid, an international non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating the illegal wildlife trade.
The WildAid Stella Artois Nobilis collection is comprised of six magnums autographed by film celebrities who generously committed their signatures for the cause. Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson, Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson, Bo Derek, Ryan Gosling and Samuel L. Jackson
are among those included in the collection.
Launched in November 2007, Stella Artois Nobilis is a delicate, sparkling beer designed to help mark spontaneous celebrations and it is brewed by InBev in Leuven,Belgium. Stella Artois was first brewed in 1926 as a Christmas brew and and InBev now produces over 1 billion liters of Stella Artois annually.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Ménage a Trois – Most Expensive Las Vegas Cocktails
You can order a Ménage a Trois served nightly at Tryst at the 5 Diamond Award-winning Wynn Hotel. This sexy cocktail is creates a perfect threesome using Cristal Rosé, Hennessy Ellipse and Grand Marnier Cent-cinquantenaire.
23-karat gold flakes and liquid gold syrup decorate this decadent cocktail. For $3,000 you can sip this drink through a golden straw studded with a 9-point diamond, yours to keep.
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