Castello de Castagneto Po, the childhood home of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is up on the market again, and with 40 rooms and 175 acres of lavish landscape, this is one fairy tale home.
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
If you happened to watch this weekend’s Formula 1 race set in Abu Dhabi, you may have seen a giant red structure with a huge Ferrari emblem on the roof.
It’s called Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and as you can guess, is an engineering and architectural masterpiece dedicated to the wondrous world of all things Ferrari.
Ferrari World is set to be the world’s largest indoor theme park and the first ever Ferrari theme park in the world when it opens in 2010.
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Lexus LFA
Lexus has officially reveiled its two-seat supercar — the LFA — at the Tokyo Motor Show which is expected to hit the road by early 2011.
The Lexus LFA is Lexus’s first true supercar and is built from scratch using no major parts sourced from other vehicles.
The LFA features a carbon fiber monocoque chassis with aluminum front and rear subframes providing perfect rigidity with little additional weight.
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Campanas x Lacoste Polo Shirts
For the fourth Holiday Collector’s Series by Lacoste, Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a range of polo shirts for Lacoste.
The special edition is based on their famed Alligator Chair, which shows how the reptiles pile up in mud beds during the dry season in their natural habitat.
This is replicated by embroidering a cluster of eight crocodile logos onto a classic men’s and women’s white polo shirt.
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46-storey building, but it has levels 68 and 88
A Hong Kong developer who sold an apartment for a world record price was Tuesday condemned for selectively numbering the floors on a 46-storey building as a ploy to attract Chinese buyers.
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The world’s first full-size Lego house is demolished
The world’s first full-size Lego house has been demolished just weeks after completion for James May’s show – Toy Stories – on BBC2.
The house included a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed was built in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking.
Plans for Legoland to move it to their theme park fell through because transport costs were too high and despite a final Facebook appeal for someone to take it, no-one came forward.
Elena Ambrosiadou buys superyacht Maltese Falcon‎
News is out on who the mysterious buyer of the Maltese Falcon is.
The sale of the 289ft hybrid beast of a superyacht has been quite a serial in the luxury world, being closely followed by blogs and newspapers alike.
The WSJ reports that mist of secrecy surrounding the identity of the buyer, or caretaker as she prefers to title herself, has cleared off.
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Francesca Furzi, jewels for eternity
A versatile style, a balancing point between tradition and innovation, for objects destined to leave their mark for the lifetime of a woman and who is beside her.
An exclusive collection that is limited to a series of numbered pieces. It is the expression of a thought wherein the jewel is a completion, if not necessary, but surely significant to being a woman.
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Prince Charles opens Burberry
The Prince of Wales opened the new global headquarters of British fashion house Burberry, at Horseferry House in London: totalling 160,000 sq ft over eight floors, houses over 800 employees and comprises cutting edge show rooms, design studios, modern contemporary office space and photo studios together with the exterior architectural features of the original 1930s building.
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