Luxury art and collectables
Colorful makeover for Louis Vuitton City Guides. For their 15th year, the witty guides by Louis Vuitton have called upon several contributors with an offbeat tone as well as the collective of photographers Tendance Floue. The City Guides are celebrating their 15th year with a complete makeover and a collection that now covers 15 of … Read more
Just One Eye’s collaboration with Converse and Nate Lowman. Envisioned by Just One Eye and only one in a rare, limited edition of 21, these Converse shoes, priced at a cool $25,000 each, are composed of and original canvas from artist Nate Lowman. Hand-cut by Lowman, each shoe was hand-sewn onto an original 1970’s rubber … Read more
Architects have long been obsessed with the nautical, but recent designs by the likes of Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster suggest they’re all at sea when creating actual yachts
New York collector Dan Loeb’s bid to unseat auction house head highlights a new mood in the business
One-of-a-kind Elephants to raise funds for The Asian Elephant Foundation The looming extinction of the Asian elephant population seems to be unheard of in the U.S. — that is, until a herd of life-size baby elephant sculptures set foot in Southern California for Elephant Parade: Welcome to America. Experts report a 90% reduction of the … Read more
The world-famous violin played by RMS Titanic bandmaster Wallace Hartley was sold for world record $1.4 million. The instrument, which wasdiscovered in 2006, was played by second-class passenger Wallace Hartley on Titanic’s fateful night of April 14th, 1912. It was sold alongside a leather luggage case initialled W. H. H. (Wallace Henry Hartley), in which … Read more