Category: SHELTER
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Most costly cities in the world
Most expensive cities in the world; Australian cities remain among the most expensive in the world for expatriates despite smaller price increases this year Tokyo, Osaka and Sidney are the most expensive cities for cost of living, according to the latest Cost of Living survey from ECA International. Over the past three years, Asian locations…
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Vogue Clubs and Café to open in Singapore, Dubai, Istanbul and Bangkok
Vogue opens new overseas Clubs And Café. A Dubai Vogue café and GQ bar will open later in 2013. A GQ bar in Istanbul is due to debut at the end of this month. Later this year a VOGUE café, club and GQ bar will open in Singapore and Bangkok, announced the publication. Vogue café…
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Limited-edition Minute Repeater Carnival of Venice
In the late 17th century the “Jaquemart” invention brought beautifully animated figures to the dial contributing to the storyline of the timepiece. The figures were set into the dial and move in sync with the activated minute repeater. In the late 1980s Ulysse Nardin introduced a surprising variation to “Jaquemart”. San Marco watch symbolized the…
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Zaha Hadid Liquid Glacial
Zaha Hadid Designs £100,000 Water and Ice-Themed Coffee Table World famous architect Zaha Hadid, the first women to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004), designed “Liquid Glacial” – a £100,000 water and ice-themed coffee table. Crafted from a new-fangled acrylic resin, the innovative furniture piece mimics melting and moving plates of ice and spring…
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Tina Turner becomes Swiss
American rock singer Tina Turner has become a Swiss citizen The eight-time Grammy Award winner Tina Turner (73), the renown singer once known for the “most famous legs in show business”. has become a Swiss citizen. Since 1995 Tina Turner, whose real name is Anna Mae Bullock, was a Zurich resident, owning a mansion in…
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Handpicked selection of 40 blue-chip automobiles at 2013 Concorso d’Eleganza
RM Auctions Announces Early Highlights for Concorso d’Eleganza The annual Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend in Cernobbio, Italy in May, will offer an elite, handpicked selection of approximately 40 blue-chip automobiles, including a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupe, a 1947 Cisitalia 202 MM ‘Nuvolari’ Spider, a 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Open Tourer with royal connections,…