EcoModern Design has taken the sustainable floor a step further with one of its newer products:  EcoLux flooring. This is a gold-,

EcoLux flooring by EcoModern Design

silver- or copper-leafed, or imitation gold leaf, Forest Stewardship Council-certified hardwood, bamboo, or engineered maple. It is made with metal gilding using a 2,000-year-old technique.

The floors are offered with custom border edges, which can be used as wall panels and veneer wallpaper. EcoLux is sold by the square foot, as a border edge or in repeating border edge patterns.

No Harry Potter collection is complete without the infamous sorting hat.

From leather maker SteelDragonCustoms, comes a stunning example of the hat in a supple leather for the luxurious Harry Potter fan.  $165 gets you this hat, and we think they sell to muggles and wizards alike.

Mercedes-Benz has just revealed their 2009 Christmas Collection and we’re loving every piece of it.

From real nappa leather gloves at $120 to a $35 SLR card wallet, this year’s collection lives up to its name.

Pete Doherty of the Babyshambles is legendary in the UK music scene.  He’s also notorious for his love affair with supermodel

Hypolux chandelier by Bughouse.

Kate Moss and his tendency to use drugs.

So with that in mind, this is the perfect chandelier for any aspiring rock star:  they Hypolux Chandelier.

The chandelier is made of plexiglass plates, commercial syringes and a ballchain suspension. It sells for $395. Bughouse has also created a variety of rock and roll themed pieces including a table that looks like an old record collection and a lamp embellished with dangerous looking spikes.

British company Today Translations offers parents the luxury service of checking potential baby names in over 100 languages.

For around $1,700, Today Translations will take your baby name and check it against 100+ languages to ensure your baby’s name doesn’t mean something like “pickpocket” in Japanese, as is the case with Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter, Suri.

This shell-shaped dish you see before you, while not really an ashtray, was used as one by one Sir Winston Churchill.  Heard of him?

The 200-year-old dish was used by Churchill while at a dining club function at London’s Savoy Hotel.  The tray fetched $7,000 at auction.  Guess it’s time we started saving someone else’s ashtray….

Before we go into detail, we’d just like to point out one thing about this luxurious and fabulous Swarovski Crystal Studded Christmas Tree Stand.  Who even sees the stand of your tree?!

That said, let’s discuss this luxury item.  Made with Swarovski crystals, this tree stand is the ultimate in holiday luxuries.  And so it the price tag, $14,770.

Located in Los Angeles, California, The Manor is currently the most expensive luxury home on the market worldwide.

At $150 million, this luxurious property features several entertaining salons, Palladian windows, circular driveway with majestic fountain and a grand staircase to make your grand entrance.  Now, who’s up for a move?

Presitgious auction house Gooding & Company will soon be offering a rare 1931 Voisin C20 “Mylord” Demi-Berline on the auction block.

Add Friday, March 12, 2010 to your calendar and plan on being there before the 4pm start time if you want to get your hands on this pre-war era C20 with engineering by Gabriel Voisin.

In a recent luxury real estate auction Nicolas Cage’s New Orleans properties went for only two-thirds of their market worth.

Both Cage’s French Quarter and Garden District estates were purchased by Nic’s Regions Bank lenders for a fraction of their cost when no other bidders were interested in the properties.  Ahh, poor ole Nicolas.