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13 Jan 2011Florida isn’t just for retirees and Disney fans now, it’s also for Salvador Dali lovers as a new museum opens in St. Petersburg, Florida. Taking two years to build, the new Dali museum golds over 2,140 pieces and is officially the largest collection of Dali art outside his home country Spain. The new building was [...]
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5 Nov 2010On Wednesday Christie’s hosted an Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale that saw Henri Matisse’s bronze sculpture Nu de dos hit the auction block and set a record for the artist. The bronze relief sculpture was estimated to go for $35 million but beat all estimates going for a record-breaking $48.8 million. It made sense [...]
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the classic cartoon character Snoopy by Charles M. Schulz, a Hong Kong jeweler has created a 207-carat Diamond Snoopy. Infamous luxury brand TSL has given Snoopy the grand treatment with a whopping 207-carat Diamond Snoopy. At 5.5 inches, this luxury Snoopy features 9,917 diamonds, 783 black diamonds and 415 [...]
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5 May 2010Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting of his mistress has sold for a world record amount. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sold to an undisclosed buyer for a whopping $106.5 million on Tuesday. This is a world record for any kind of work of art sold at auction, which must have made Christie’s auction house pretty excited. [...]
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31 Mar 2010Princess Diana’s family is reportedly selling off some of their infamous art collection this summer with Christie’s in London. As part of an old masters auction on July 6, pieces such as this Peter Paul Rubens “A Commander being armed for Battle” will be auctioned. This painting has been in the Spencer family for 200 [...]
In: Art|Food & Drink
11 Jan 2010La Maison Ruinart, the oldest established champagne house in the world, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its 1959 Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs in 2009 and decided to honor the occasion by commissioning a work of champagne-related art from Dutch artist Maarten Baas. The Melting Collection Ice Bucket is what resulted, a beautiful shining silver [...]
We last heard of famed Scottish photographer Rankin when his bespoke bottle for The Macallan single malt Scotch debuted. Now the shutterbug has released a new volume of edgy erotica appropriately titled Rankin’s Cheeky. The book features a foreword by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and an introduction by Heidi Klum, who has shed her clothes [...]
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3 Jan 2010The Vatican‘s secret archives have been the subject of lore for centuries and have spawned plenty of movies and novels. Now some of the Vatican’s documents have been revealed in a new book, The Vatican Secret Archives. The 252-page book is full of color photos and represents a chronological journey through the meandering history of [...]
In: Art|Luxury Gifts
11 Nov 2009Hallmark 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 [...]
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10 Oct 2009Lehman Brothers is no more but their art collection is about to go on the auction block. Lehman’s was noted for their amazing art collection and they had some of the most renowned artists lining their hallways and several hundred pieces will be finding new homes on 1 November 09. The auction showcases modern and [...]
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