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Tumi is noted for their stylish luggage and travel accessories.  Now, they’ve done themselves one better by partnering with Hg2 to produce a unique set of guidebooks in a bespoke case. There are eight customized guides including: Paris London Milan Tokyo Berlin New York Buenos Aires Dubai All come housed in Tumi’s signature ballistic nylon [...]

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

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

Speaking as a Texas girl, I must confess that the common mindset here is “American by birth, Texan by the grace of God“.  So with that in mind, what better Christmas gift could there be than a state necklace from Maya Brenner? The necklaces are available in 14k gold or sterling silver and feature 16″ [...]

Hallmark Jewellers – in tiny Titschfield, Hampshire – has created the world’s most expensive Christmas ornament. The ornament itself is composed of 18 carat white gold and is studded with over one and half thousand diamonds. Two rings consisting of 188 red rubies surround the body of the ornament. It took more than 130 hours [...]

Luxury goods group Burberry has hooked up with social networking company Facebook to launch a Web site celebrating its trench coat, becoming the latest retailer to use social media in a bid to boost its profile. The Web site, artofthetrench.com, will allow members connected via Facebook to submit images and stories about Burberry trench coats [...]

You’ve got to hand it to Louis Vuitton because they do conjure up some unique concepts for luggage and bags.   As you may recall, Vuitton recently entered into the luxury timepiece market — and what better way to carry you stylish accessories than in one of their prestigous cases. One case is trunk style, and [...]

More and more people are shunning a computer accessory that used to be a necessity:  the mouse. However,the design wizards at Intelligent Design have introduced a mouse to send all others scurrying away:  The ID Mouse. This nifty item debuted during Dutch Design Week and is Bluetooth-enabled featuring a tres chic hand-formed grade 1 titanium [...]

Glittering bait for the well-heeled shopper: Harrods department store has added gold bars to its merchandise line. The store announced yesterday that it has joined with Swiss refiner Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux to offer gold bars weighing 27.5 pounds (12.5 kilograms). The move comes as gold prices have been going through the roof. On Wednesday, [...]

With the mass proliferation of Blackberries, iPhones, and Palm Treo’s, one might wonder why does anyone need a ultra-compact laptop.  If  a person can’t do something on their PDA device, they can just whip out their laptop — right? Perhaps, perhaps not. Even though I am a girl, I tend to see things in a [...]


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