Here is a normal trick to garner attention. Take a gadget and clad with crystals or drench it in precious metal-plating and dazzling stones to make it to headlines that cannot be missed by anyone. Not even by the ones (like me) who cannot afford such luxury. And Smartbook AG has adopted this mantra to promote its GC SmartBook Zenide OSC. Festooned with Swarovski crystals, they have dubbed it as SmartBook Zenide GC CRYSTAL Limited Edition. For 2001 Euros...
To have a completely luxurious home, it needs to be done up in style from floor to roof. Well then let Boston-based Company EcoModern Design show you how to make the flooring of your house both classy and sustainable at the same time. Their new product EcoLux flooring comes in gold, silver, copper-leafed, imitation gold leaf, Forest Stewardship Council-certified hardwood, bamboo, or engineered maple. This flooring is made with metal gilding using a 2,000-year-old technique which was originally used...
After launching the Vertu Ascent Ti Carbon Fibre collection, the Vertu Ascent Ti Neon collection and the Vertu Ascent Ti Mixed Metal collection, Vertu the manufacturer of luxury mobile phones, has finally launched a product from its heart! The brand new special edition of the Ascent Ti in support of the Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders (ICM) has been launched with an idea to raise funds for the ICM charity. The sale proceeds of each of these...
Music is said to be the food for the soul, then doesn’t your soul deserve music rendered in its perfect pitch? Then you definitely would want to lay your hands on the creatively handcrafted German Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser. With prices starting from $10,800 onwards, this beautiful curvilinear wave design wall piece's primary functionality is to create a surface to scatter sound waves uniformly but also reduce their energy significantly, which means that the music comes to your ears...
When you're stinking rich, you need to smell eternal right? Then let the Lux edition of Guerlain Idylle Baccarat teach you how! Created by Ora Ito this new fragrance is a piece of art inside out. The flacon of this perfume is gold plated and its stopper is created with 18 carat gold and this vile is placed in a bubble made of Baccarat crystal. The Idylle Baccarat is a limited edition essence packaged in a lacquered coffret and...
If recession doesn’t manage to add a frown your brow, then it's time for you to splurge a bit more! At the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) 2010 Cartier will unveil its new model called "Captive". This "Captive de Cartier" watch will feature an 18 carat rhodium-plated white gold diamond-paved central dial having a 35mm diameter. The bezel and dial is said to be set with round diamonds. The watch crystal protecting the face of the watch...
If you like pearls, you will be very interested to know that Bonhams and Butterfields will auction off what is believed to be the world's second-largest documented pearl. This beauty is a five-pound gem found off the coast of the Philippines that has been dubbed the "Palawan Princess." This is an extremely precious, rare and expensive natural non-nacreous pearl. It was found in saltwater near the Philippines' Palawan island. It seems that the only pearl bigger than this one...
Beating all other luxury phones to acquire the title of the world’s most expensive phone is Stuart Hughes' new Apple iPhone 3GS SUPREME. The extremely expensive phone is priced at a whopping £1.92 million ($3.15million) and was 10 months in the making. A truly luxurious phone, its entire casing has been created with 271 grams of 22ct solid gold. The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds color F, weighing 68ct in totality. The rear logo in solid gold too...
The holiday season brings out the charitable and generous nature in all of us. Bentley too seems to have been overcome by the holiday spirit and showed its charitable side when it handed over a luxuriously renovated London Routemaster double-decker bus to the hospice St Luke's at its Crew headquarters. The hospice acquired the bus in April and had requested Bentley for help with its renovation. Bentley immediately agreed and set up to give this bus a whole new...
If you own a Lamborghini LP560-4 and actually think this sleek supercar needs some fine tuning then ENCO Exclusive is the place for you. The German based tuners have unveiled a new styling and performance package just for the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4. You can give your supercar a makeover by choosing from a variety of carbon fiber exterior components like a front bumper (€2990 or $4,465), a boot cover (€3990 or $5,960), a front splitter (€990 or $1,480),...
Although Joel Horowitz, the co-founder of Tommy Hilfiger has had no luck in finding a buyer for his $100million property, designer Tommy Hilfiger has lucked out. The luxury estate in Connecticut owned by the fashion designer has sold for $20 million ($8 million below its original asking price)! According to Sotheby’s International realty, the house has been purchased by a family who toured it in September. The lavish 20,000-square-foot Greenwich mansion boats of eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Furthermore,...
Sometimes simple and subtle accessories are all you need to flaunt your lavish lifestyle. For the man who follows this mantra, the Hourglass cufflinks from the Villa Cufflink collection are definitely a must have. The exquisite crystal studded cufflinks will subtly flaunt your luxurious lifestyle. The beautiful cufflinks from the great Villa house have been handcrafted using Rock crystal. Simple black onyx bars entwined in white gold add the finishing touches to these exquisite cufflinks. Elegant, classy and extremely...
Moving over his fetish for black cars, and after selling off his old 2002 Bentley Arnage T, another Bentley has caught the LA Galaxy star's eyes! This time it’s the new Bentley Continental Supersports. Instead of his usual matt black choice the start has reportedly opted for a quartzite hue this time around. This beauty joins the Beckham's car family fleet which has other members like a Range Rover, Cadillac Escalade, Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, two Porsche 911s and...
If you are craving sea food for this festive season, and have a pocket as large as your appetite, then "The Fish Society", one of UK's premier prestigious mail order and Internet-based fishmonger has just what you need. They have introduced the ‘Caviar & Crustacean Atomic hamper’ with seventeen different varieties of sea foods that can feed up to thirty people. Priced at around $4,080, the hamper will come to around $115 per person. The assortment of seafood will...
Stamps display how much respect a nation has for someone who has made a world of difference either from their soil or for them directly. And one such person for the Brits is the queen of England. Sculpted by the famous sculptor Arnold Machin, the original mould designed in 1967 caught the Queen's attention to such an extent that she declined to have it updated, that too when her effigy on the British coin was very much modified. This...