Category: SHELTER
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Lagerfeld in wax
Harry Potter, Pope Benedict XVI, German TV host Thomas Gottschalk, Udo Lindenberg and Barack Obama have company. The St. Pauli Panoptikum wax museum (Spielbudenplatz 3, 20359 Hamburg) has expanded its collection with a prominent personality. The legendary German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has a wax likeness with black gloves, sunglasses and metal chains. Some say…
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Michael Jackson’s Dege & Skinner Saville Row jacket to be auctioned
Michael Jackson’s costumes and memorabilia to be auctioned Interest in Michael Jackson‘s career and related memorabilia has continued to grow in the three years since his tragic death. Michael Jackson‘s trademark military-style jacket will be one of the highlights, of almost 40 lots related to Jackson included in Bonhams, Knightsbridge forthcoming Entertainment Memorabilia sale…
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Aston Martin’s Limited Edition One-77 Cycle: world’s most technologically advanced road bicycle
Aston Martin and Factor Bikes delivered a two-wheeled version of the iconic One-77 Coupe. The bicycle is world’s most technologically advanced road bicycle. The Aston Marting bicycle has been developed alongside parts for F1, Le Mans, MOTO GP and some of the world’s fastest road cars. From the outset, the One-77 Cycle was conceived as…
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Audiophile furniture: CanCans
When you’re done listening, the great sounding headphones deserve to be stored in a nice box or a special shelf. Klutz Design completes out audiophile home catalog with a limited edition of the CanCans clad entirely in sumptuous leather by Ballerina Sweetspot (one of the world’s first purpose-built listening chairs) leather craftsman. CanCans is the ultimate…
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Eating on Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal Table by Studio Job Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, or Studio Job, “a love-’em-or-hate-’em Belgian-Dutch design duo” according to Time Magazine, presented at Art Basel Miami 2012 an upside down Taj Mahal in form of a table. The Indian architectural beauty included in “Seven wonders of the world” list boasts flashy gilt…
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Martinez Cannes and Concorde Lafayette sold to a Qatari investor
Katara Hospitality to buy French luxury hotels Famed Martinez hotel in Cannes and Paris’ Concorde Lafayette Porte Maillot are now owned by an investor of Qatar. The hotel group Groupe du Louvre (US hotel group Starwood Capital) has indeed sold these two hotels to Katara Hospitality. Starwood Capital’s Groupe du Louvre will hold a meeting…