Archive for the ‘Luxury’ Category
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World’s Tallest Hotel In Dubai
The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai is scheduled to be built in 2012 and aims to dazzle guests. The hotel will be the tallest in the world, standing at 335 meters (1,164 feet), only 26 meters (85 feet) shorter than the Empire State building in New York City. The first phase of the hotel’s inauguration will see the opening of 807 rooms as well as a slew ...
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Luxury Yacht For Sale For $44 Million
Got $44 million lying around? Of course you do. Why not spend it on the stunning luxury yatch, the Helix, which was recently listed for sale by the international shipyard Feadship. Apparently, the extreme price tag is surprisingly considered a “steal” when all the bells and whistles are taken into account. The hatch is 147 feet long and comes with a Pascoe International 7.00m tender that ...
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Sexy Clutch Purses Made With Concrete
Kudos go out to Katalin Ivanka, Hungarian designer behind Ivanka Design Studio for coming up with this awesome Leather & Concrete Clutch and handbags design. The handbags were made in part by high-performance concrete – an experiment Ivanka conducted that couldn’t have gone more “right”. We love the juxtaposition between the notion of a feminine fashion accessory and the hard, industrial nature of the material used. ...
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A Chart Showing A Celebrity’s Expenses
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Aside from the fact that this post is a gross generalization, it’s also likely to be true for some A-list celebrities who make piles and piles of cash. If you’ve often wondered how they can possibly spend what they are making, this chart compiled by the New York magazine attempts to shed some light. The data was provided by a high-level Hollywood ...
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Entire Home Made From 1B Decommissioned Euro Notes
Ever wonder what happens to misprinted currency? In the case of decommissioned Euro notes, the money gets shredded and formed into a papery brick. The blocks hold no monetary value and are likely viewed as useless hunks of paper by the masses, but not to Irish artist, Frank Buckley. Buckley collected the pulped bricks totalling over 1 billion euro’s worth of paper shredded to build his ...
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Phantom: A $620,000 Hearse From Rolls Royce
The Rolls-Royce Phantom Hearse B12 is a creation of Biemme Special Cars, an Italian carmaker that specializes in making hearses. Its current products are mostly E-Class-based models, but its craziest project to date was likely its CLS-based car. That is, until now. Biemme’s B12 hearse is based on a Series I Rolls-Royce Phantom, but is a whopping 23 feet long, a full three feet longer than ...
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The Aston Martin Phone From Mobiado
Grand Touch Aston Martin Phone is the second phone released by Mobiado as part of their Aston Martin collection. The body of this mobile phone is constructed from solid aircraft aluminum meticulously CNC machined and anodized to create smooth and elegant hard surface for the exterior body. The surfaces of the bodies are created with curves to straight line edges, a process that can only be ...
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A Restaurant In A Cave In Italy
In the town of Polignano a Mare in southern Italy (province of Bari, Apulia), lies a most unique dining experience at the Grotta Palazzese. Open only during the summer months, a restaurant is created inside a vaulted limestone cave, looking outwards toward the sea. The restaurant is part of the Grotta Palazzese hotel located above. INTERESTED? CHECK OUT: A RESTAURANT ON A ROCK THE UNDERWATER HOTEL
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Awesome Treehouse Hotel In Sweden
Staying in a hotel in Northern Sweden doesn’t have to be a run-of-the-mill experience thanks to the Treehotel – a group of unusual tree houses that are up or rent in Harads. The concept of the Treehotel was inspired by the film “The Tree Lover” by Jonas Selberg Augustsen, and brought to life by some of Scandinavia’s leading architects. All of the rooms are suspended approximately ...
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Bianchi: The Luxury Bicycle From Gucci
While you may not “need” a luxury bicycle designed by famous fashion label, Gucci, it doesn’t mean you won’t “want” one. We do. At the end of 2011, Gucci launched two luxury bicycles designed by the brand’s creative director, Frida Giannini, are referred to as the Bianchi by Gucci bicycles. The bikes are available for purchase exclusively in London from Gucci’s store location at 18 Sloane ...
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iPoo: If Apple Made Toilets
Designer Milos Paripovic is responsible for the design of the unofficial Apple toilet, a satirical product design is nothing more than a fun prototype. And admit it, you have at least once thought of what a toilet designed by Apple would look like, right? And so, we present to you, dear reader, the iPoo (Paripovic claims that unlike other Apple products, the iPoo is compatible with ...
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Louis Vuitton Condoms
Georgia Republic architect Irakli Kiziria has designed a Louis Vuitton condom, enveloped in the label’s notorious brown packaging and adorned with what looks like raised lettering (for enhanced pleasure?). The luxury rubbers are priced at $68 each, according to the “official” website. To put the price in perspective, $68 could buy you about six 12-packs of regular condoms. GOLD MINUTE REPEATER WATCH FROM LOUIS VUITTON EXERCISE ...
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Sexy iPhone Controlled Coffee Brewer
The sculptural beauty behind this coffee brewer is impressive – the Top Brewer by Scanomat turns the common conception of coffee brewing and dispensing on its head. The arched stainless steel tap is designed to be installed within any tabletop, and brews the perfect cup of coffee every time. The patented milk foamer is the heats fresh milk on demand and foams to the desired texture ...
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Vodka Made With Water From The Himalayas $3,000+
Stolichnaya which has been into the business of creating special vodka bottles for quite the time period now, has now launched its latest premium offering in the market; Elit Pristine Vodka from the Himalayan Series. Not very tough to figure the main specialty of the beverage in the bottle, this is using water derived from the Himalayan Mountains, apart from the special distillation and purification process ...
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The Fiat 500 Limousine
Italian coachbuilder Castagna Milano has their eyes set on the American market, and to lead their entrance is a stretched Fiat 500 limo in three different variants: LimoSun, LimoCity and LimoCity Presidential. The LimoSun is based on the Fiat 500 convertible and features four seats facing one another in the passenger area. The large openings on the side and the roof can be closed with transparent ...
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HYT: A Watch That Tells Time With Green Fluid
H1 by HYT is the first timekeeping device ever to merge liquid and mechanical engineering. The hours on this timepiece are displayed by a chamber that is filled with a luminescent green liquid. The chamber surrounds the main dial, which encompasses in its center a dedicated smaller dial for the minutes, as well as a seconds hand resembling a water turbine, on its left side. Below ...
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Gold Snowboard Boot From Nike
Introducing the Complete Technique Nike ZF-1 American Eagle Snowboard golden boots. Inspired by Japanese art forms such as the Saint Seiya and Berserk, this set of boots use extensive amounts of yellow gold to form a carved structure. Nicknamed the American Eagle Snowboard Zoom Force 1, these boots were the brainchild of Osamu Koyama from the designer label Complete Technique, who had got into a partnership ...
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Suspended Night Club In Hong Kong
The project by the young architectural studio Urbanplunger has been recently awarded the third prize in the Night Club Hotel in Hong Kong international competition. The main idea is to create a suspended building structure to comply with the extremely compact planning in Hong Kong. The whole structure is elevated above the ground by leaning on the nearby buildings. The nature of the design allows for ...
