A painting by Chinese artist Sanyu fetched a record HK$42.1 ($5.4 million) at a Hong Kong auction as bidders fought for lots, betting that the worst of Asia’s art-market slump is over.
Of the 38 lots offered last week at Christie’s International’s top selection of Asian art, 34 sold, raising a combined HK$181.7 million, according to the London-based auction house.
That’s about twice the company’s presale estimate, said Kate Malin, a Christie’s spokeswoman.
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Scarlett Johansson will replace actress Penelope Cruz as a new face of mega international fashion-forward brand Mango.
Scarlett Johansson will promote the Mango Fall/Winter campaign. The photos for the advertising campaign were taken in Los Angeles by Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti.
Mango claims Scarlett is the perfect face for their company, because she is “embodying the ideal Mango woman; chic, independent, and cosmopolitan. Johansson exudes a confident demeanor while remaining youthful and playful.â€
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Beginning June 15, 2009, Google is relaxing its policy on use of trademarks in ad copy text.
In the past, Google has restricted the use of brand names in ad text and was willing to take action to prevent it which allowed you to authorize specific resellers to use your brand while restricting the remainder of the market.
Now Google will allow previously disapproved ads to run on Google.com and the content network in the USA, without the need for approval by the trademark owner.
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From famous chateaux ranging from Lafite to Margaux and Mouton, wine lovers had a chance to bid for top French wine in Beijing on Friday at the first wine auction yet on the Chinese mainland.
Around 1,000 bottles of fine wine from France’s renowned Bordeaux area were on auction with a starting price of several hundred to several thousand U.S. dollars Xinhua reports.
94 percent of the wines were sold and over 90 percent of the buyers said they would drink the wines themselves, not for investment.
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Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, has moved his official address from Moscow to the remote town of Yeruda in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region.
A move that will see his tax contribution go to the local budget, regional authorities said.
The village of Yeruda has the largest gold field in the Kranoyarsk Territory, operated by Polyus Gold, controlled by Prokhorov, who reached the top of Russia’s rich list earlier this year with net wealth of $9.5 billion.
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For two days Elena Gregusova’s “Wear the News” collection will be exhibited at the Financial Times “Business of Luxury Summit” in the famous Salle des Etoiles in the Sporting Monte-Carlo.
The outstanding collection of six haute couture sculptures created exclusively from Financial Times newspaper represent Elena’s artistic transformation of recycled newspaper into extraordinary luxury wearable paper sculptures.
These photographs were all taken by Gregusova’s talented husband Martin Gregus. Website
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“Evangelical Chinese billionaires have created the world’s first biblically proportioned Noah’s Ark which opened this week in Hong Kong.
The Noah’s Ark at Ma Wan Park in Hong Kong is a tourist attraction built by the Kwok brothers (pictured below), who are behind Hong Kong’s largest real estate developer Sun Hung Kai Properties.”
The message in its 450-foot-long hull, its rooftop luxury hotel and 67 pairs of fiberglass animals: “The financial tsunami will be over,” says Spencer Lu, the Kwoks’ project director at Noah’s Ark.
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If expensive supercars aren’t unique enough for you, Eng-i-Creation can whip up a one-off silver and gold embellished custom folding key-fob for only about $7,000.
Featured here is the Gumpert Apollo key that is a foldable key and comes with integrated remote control.
Crafted in silver and fine wood, the Gumpert logo is embellished in gold and the lion-eagle part of the log sit on blood red enamel base.
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