Alexander has created a limited edition diamond Mont Blanc handcrafted pen exclusively for the elite in aid of charity.
Amosu Diamond Meisterstück fountain pens have been handmade with 77 diamonds, and feature 0.45 carats of VS, F grade diamonds with a choice of white, black, pink, brown or blue diamonds set into the gold clip.
The pen’s ubiquitous style features an 18k gold nib, platinum inlay and black precious resin cap.
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Eton shirts are celebrating their 80th birthday in style, the Swedish company have commissioned an ultra-special shirt which is excessive even by Elton John standards.
The world’s most expensive shirt is valued at £23,000 (US $45,000) and features the finest Egyptian cotton yarn. The studs and cufflinks are diamond encrusted, the studs have coloured diamonds and the cufflinks have the plain old normal diamonds.
The shirt is touring the world passing through some of Eton’s stores including Milan, LA and Stockholm and will be auctioned off for charity next year.
Richard Prince collaborated with Marc Jacobs to design artistic bags for the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2008 line.
The hottest item right now is the Louis Vuitton Watercolor Speedy which is said to be released in the US in May.
The monogram pattern is designed in a manner that has the orange, red, and yellow paints looking like they were painted on with watercolor paint.
This bag has an incredibly long wait list at many stores and the masses are clamoring to get the next “big” Speedy. The price is said to be around $1,300 via your local LV boutique.
The Louis Vuitton Aquarelle Bag is a modified Speedy, a more refined and chic style. The frame is also made of wood and the handles are made of lizard.
This is a stunning bag in the Richard Prince collaboration with Louis Vuitton. The price on this bag is said to be around $3,600, but it will most likely end up costing over this amount.
Release date should also be around May 1st. Via purseblog
Created by Chef Hubert Keller, the FleurBurger 5000 is served at Fleur de Lys in Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas).
It is a Kobe burger containing foie gras, a special truffle sauce, and is served on a brioche truffle bun with black truffles on the side.
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Considered the most valuable concept car of the late 1950s, the revolutionary Diablo concept car will be the star attraction of RM Auctions’ multi-million dollar Sports & Classics of Monterey event, to be held August 15th and 16th in downtown Monterey, California.
Conceived by Chrysler’s design head, Virgil Exner, arguably America’s most influential stylist, this rare example was built by Italian coachbuilder Ghia for the Chrysler Corp. on a 1955 Chrysler 300 series chassis.
A featured concept car for the 1957 US auto show circuit, the car is one of the largest and most impressive concept cars ever built, stretching an impressive 22 feet in length.
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Prada have created this unique playing card set for especially travelers. The Prada playing card set is made of black saffiano calf leather and is sealed using a zip.
The set includes two Prada branded decks of playing cards one which is black backed the other red backed. The Prada Travel Playing Card Set is available from Prada stores worldwide – Around $397
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The Morgan Plaza is a super-luxury 7 star hotel under construction in Beijing, China. Although it was set to be finished last month’s, there has been no official confirmation of it completion yet but it definitely going to be completed in time for the Beijing Olympics.
When completed it is rumoured to be possibly more luxurious than the Burj Al Arab and has been considered to be the official landmark of China, still in competition with the Shanghai World Financial Center.
The plaza will contain two pavilions, a temple, the world’s best Japanese restaurant and a 600 meter long corridor – Overseaspropertymall.
The “Bridge Suite” ranks third in terms of most expensive hotel rooms in the world, at $25,000. Even with its large price tag, the suite currently has a five-year waiting list, and requires guests to stay at least four nights in the suite. It is located in the span that connects the two Royal Towers.
This is the hotel’s presidential suite, which has ten rooms with more than 5,000 square feet (460 m²) of living space. The Bridge Suite comes with its own butler and cook, and the kitchen has its own entrance so that the staff never bothers the guest. The suite include gold chandeliers, a baby grand piano, and balconies on both sides.
The architecture and décor feature murals, sculptures, and fountains. The Great Hall of Waters lobby has a 70-foot (21 m)-high domed ceiling covered in golden shells, and opens on one side to the Marina. The other side leads to underwater streets filled with fish and Atlantean artifacts. The top four floors of the Royal Towers are known as the Imperial Club.
In early 2007, Louis Vuitton released their most expensive handbag, the Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork Bag. The bags, as the title suggests, were made of samples of different Louis Vuitton bags. The fifteen bags used come from the LV spring/summer and cruise lines.
The gold chain shoulder strap makes this the perfect handbag for the discerning 90s rapper while the patchwork nature of the purse itself suggests that the person owning it may have a rusted truck propped up on cinder blocks in their front yard. Louis Vuitton made twenty-four numbered copies of their most expensive handbags, priced at $45,000 and thhis limited edition purse sold out almost immediately.
A beautiful and luxurious leather-bound edition of the game is being retailed by Zontik Games.
The board itself is meticulously leather-inlaid by hand and then embossed in gold or silver with felt-lined storage compartments for the game pieces. The dice cups and question card boxes are also inlaid with leather.
Depending on how you want to customize your board, the most expensive Trivial Pursuit game set will set you back between $4,405 and $7,105.
Chanel’s revolutionary quilting comes to life in this elegant vintage shoulder bag. The zip top opens to a maroon leather lining, zip pocket and two opens pockets. Two elegant chain-and-leather straps complete the look.
It’s available online for $4639!
In 1996 Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei commissioned a secret project called ‘The Platinum Yacht’ but ran into financial difficulty and the project was put on hold.
The project was taken over in 2001 by the Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and the yacht was renamed the ‘Golden Star’. It is now in dry dock awaiting completion, but when it is finally completed the Golden Star will not only be the world’s most expensive yacht at a cost of over $300 million USD, but also the longest at 525 feet.
Swiss Army is producing these stunningly outrageous knives at only $70,000 a pop. The shells of the most expensive Swiss Army knife are made of pure platinum 950. The inset lengthwise has 430 dazzling diamonds bringing the total weight to close to 4 carats.
All of the tools included with the expensive knives are engraved with diamonds too, except for the tweezers. If you were to buy the most expensive Swiss Army Knife in the world, it would also include a solid gold or platinum chain and a chic Bonfort case.
The Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore Zippy Coin Purse, which comes in Black or White; were finally released in Singapore in April 2008 after a long anticipated wait.
First came the one in Monogram Canvas, followed by versions in Epi, Damier Ebene and Damier Azur and finally the Monogram Multicolore ones.
There was even a special limited edition one that was launched to mark the opening of Hong Kong’s Louis Vuitton boutique at 5 Canton Road (all the guests received one for free!).
The new Couach 3700 Fly makes an ultimate charter vacation if you care for excellent sophistication and beautiful azure waterways. Hit the blue waters in style with this high-end 37 meter yacht that is crafted to offer everything that folks from affluent class are used to.
Coming from Couach, featuring the best of on-board technology, this 3700 Fly has been exclusively designed to cater to the needs of a businessman and making it a complete resource for both work and pleasure.
With more leisure options like the home automation management for lighting, blinds and videos also create a personalized atmosphere. […]
With it’s 2 x 2735 HP engines, the 3700 Fly offers a top speed of 30 knots along with two 60 HP hydraulic propellers for an excellent maneuverability. Thanks to its pool of 22000 liters, autonomy is 1000 miles at 20 knots.
A large garage that is accessible from the outside can accommodate an annex to 5.40 m, a jet-ski, an air compressor and diving equipment. Even the launching of the Annex is ultra-simplified and facilitated by a single crew member. The two trolleys operated by a hydro-electric system leads directly to the sea annexes and back aboard with equal ease.
The Jaquet Droz Seule Aiguille watch is one of the most distinctively elegant timepieces to debut at Basel this year.
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Francois Curiel, Chairman of Christie’s for Europe holds a gem-set Bowenite Magot by Faberge, also know a the “Onassis Buddha” during a preview at Christie’s auction house in Geneva May 9, 2008.
The finely carved figure, with articulated hands, head and ruby tongue, was bought by Aristotle Onassis in the early 1960’s and kept on the “Christina” yacht.
It may fetch $ 500,000-$700,000 during an auction sale in London on 11 June. Via Daylife
Update – Price realized: £1,273,250 ($2,487,929)
The price of a round of drinks may be getting ever more expensive nowadays, but it’s a snip compared with what is on offer at Belfast’s Merchant Hotel. At £750, an original Trader Vic’s Mai Tai isn’t within everyone’s budget, but its hefty price tag has been enough to secure it the official title of the world’s most expensive cocktail. […]
The Merchant owns one of only six bottles in existence of 17-year-old Wray and Nephew Rum, which was used by trader Vic Bergeron to create the original Mai Tai over 60 years ago. “Nobody else in the world can do this cocktail, we’re the only bar,” explained the Merchant’s Bar and Potation Manager Sean Muldoon. And although the 750ml bottle itself may look rather nondescript, it is worth a whopping £26,000. “Due to the popularity of the Mai Tai when it was invented in 1944 the 17-year-old rum was used up and wasn’t made any more,” said Mr Muldoon. […]
However, a special batch of the 17-year-old rum was created recently, ostensibly for private gifts, but one of these was acquired by the Merchant. […] “When this bottle goes we will never be able to get another one,” said Mr Muldoon. For more information on the Merchant Hotel visit themerchanthotel.com
Hotel Everland, the creation of Swiss artists Sabina Lang & Daniel Baumann, on the roof of Palais de Tokyo is an art consisting of an actual one-room hotel. It offers 1970’s-style glamour, a turquoise-tiled bathroom, a record player with a collection of vinyl discs, & a spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower but remember no TV.
If you are interested in the room in the hotel, you can actually stay in it & is offered at a price of 333 Euros per night during weekdays & 444 Euros at weekends. But do remember it will remain atop the Palais de Tokyo until the end of 2008 only.
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The most expensive piano in the world belonged to the Beatle’s John Lennon and was auctioned off to British pop-singer George Michael in 2000. The Steinway & Sons “Model Z†Piano formerly owned by John Lennon is a fairly ordinary walnut upright piano that still bears a few cigarette burns attributed to the musician.
The piano was originally bought by Lennon in December 1970, and delivered to studios at his home in Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, England. He composed and recorded the song “Imagine†on it, and was filmed playing the song on it for the first time to wife Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono band. Believed to be a piece of British history by many, the most expensive piano in the world sold at auction in the year 2000 for £1.45 million (about $2.1 million) dollars .
After using the world’s most expensive piano to record songs for an album, George Michael returned the piano to the Liverpool museum that housed it prior to his ownership. He stated that “the piano was not the type of thing that should be in storage somewhere or being protected, it should be seen by people,â€
Tall as 48 foot, this powerboat is power-driven by two diesel engines, 2,000 horsepower besides maintaining a top speed of 158 km/h (85 knots).
The hull is developed using kevlar and carbon fiber with cross linked PVC cores linked using vinylester and epoxy resins.
You can opt for either a 2m long double bed or can go with two singles. Also other custom-built features would be made available on demand.
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