Ralph Lauren’s Penthouse furniture collection mixes classic and contemporary lines with pieces awash in lacquered woods and black leather.

Sun Hung Kai Properties, the world’s largest developer by market value, raised the price of two penthouses in Hong Kong by 50 percent to a record HK$75,000 ($9,700) a square foot as demand surges for luxury apartments.

The units, situated on the 91st to 93rd floor of the 270-meter (886-feet) towers, will be offered for $38.5 million each.

They each have 4,000 square feet (372 square meters) on three floors, six bedrooms, an outdoor garden and a swimming pool.

The Wealth Bulletin has compiled a new list of the World’s Top Ten Most Expensive Hotel Rooms.

Despite the past year’s financial and economic turmoil, prices at the best hotel suites have risen by an average of 10% this year.

The winner is the Royal Penthouse Suite at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva Switzerland which charges a whopping $65,000 a night.

A striking triplex penthouse apartment in a clock tower overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor has gone on the market for $25 million.

The Dumbo building was built by a cardboard box manufacturer and renovated by Dumbo developer David Walentas.

The main floor of the sleek modern apartment is dominated by four working clocks housed in four 14-foot-high round windows.

Skyloft Penthouse in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood has become the most expensive condominium ever sold in downtown Manhattan.

Conceived by James Carpenter Design Associates, the modern duplex loft with distinctive glass constructions sits on top of a building dating from the 1920s and offers panoramic views of the city from the 14th floor.

The interior of the 145 Hudson Street loft is the work of Roger Marvel Architects and is meant to bring together the inside and outside spaces, for instance through the presence of glass doors leading onto terraces.

Downtown New York will greet its first ultra-luxury high-rise hotel when Trump SoHo New York opens in Fall 2009.

Located at 246 Spring Street in the heart of the fashionable SoHo district, the dramatic, 46-story, 400-room glass tower neighbors numerous art galleries and chic boutiques.

Eleven spectacular penthouse suites crown the top three floors of Trump SoHo New York, including the largest suite on the East Coast, measuring 10,045 square feet.