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Hotel Missoni gets a warm welcome in Kuwait
The Missoni Kuwait is part of the Symphony Centre, a boutique emporium located in the capital’s shopping district. For the hotel design Creative Director Rosita Missoni combines vibrant patterns and bold colors with turquoise, green and gold accents appropriate for a hotel facing the sea. There are a total of 169 rooms as well as meeting space, a gym, steam room, sauna and a pool deck overlooking the city. Dining options include the Italian restaurant, Cucina; Luna Restaurant, located on the 18th floor, which serves a fusion of Arabic-oriental and Mediterranean cuisine; Choco Caf offering pastries, chocolates and a selection of small plates and the Pool Bar serving continental cuisine. Rooms have Bang & Olufsen televisions and mirrors in the bathroom that convert into televisions. Check-in is done via iPad. The hotel also will have a 1,500-square meter luxury Six Senses Spa, opening later in the year.
This is just one of many designer/hotel collaborations. Brands from Armani to Christrian Lacroix have gotten into the hotel business.
Tonin Fashion Collection
Luxury can pretty much start with your door and the gradually move beyond the threshold. To make things easier, Italy based Tonin have come out with a Fashion Collection that includes beautiful leather doors and leather window frames to add a dash of luxury and make your door vibrant and colorful. Thanks to glass designer Sera Valentina, leathers including Ostrich, Crocodile Skin, Eel and Python, in a variety of colors like pink, blue, brown, ochre, green, the classic black and white, fiery red, and metallics are perfectly complemented by Murano glass and crystal embellishment finish.
Vulcan: Portable Fireplace with a Unique Twist
Designers have used their creative skills to beautify the smallest and most mundane of things. But when it comes to a fire place you rarely come across a piece that you can appreciate for its looks. Now Indian Ocean, makers of outdoor furniture have launched a fireplace called Vulcan that looks unique.
Vulcan is portable fireplace that is suitable for both indoor as well as outdoor use. The design of the fire place is unique as it looks like an iron sculpture of fire. The elctro zinc plated steel design rises up from the body like flames and serves the purpose of a safety grill. The fireplace has a very modern look that would enhance the beauty of a decorated home.
The Vulcan is available in three colors, white, black and green. The fireplace works on bioethanol fuel and has a capacity to burn for six hours. Since the fireplace is completely portable it does not require any installation or chimney. The Vulcan is priced at $995 which is $1,593 approximately.
Linde Werdelin 3-Timer GMT Series Adds Green Dial
London-based luxury watch maker has updated its 2009 Linde Werdelin 3-Timer GMT watch with a beautiful dark-green dial reminding of a skin of the American alligator.
Set on a black pointed calfskin strap, Linde Werdelin’s 3-Timer GMT series is limited to just 22 pieces. To retail at $6495, the timepiece can be set to show three different time zones, using the GMT hand and the bidirectional 24-hour bezel.
Available in steel with silver, black and green dials, the 3-Timer series retail from $5477 and is available to buy from any authorized retailer and from LindeWerdelin.com.
The watch was previously offered in stainless steel, DLC coated steel, 18-carat rose gold, and 18-carat yellow gold cases.
18th century Hookah goes under hammer, fetches $356,700
Hookahs have become a rage yet again. Don’t believe me? Well! there you are-a rare and intact Mughal gilt-decorated glass hookah base by Bonhams fetched a whopping ‚£234,000 ($356,700) at an auction at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Sale. The masterpiece which was touted to be sold for ‚£8,000-‚£12,000 ($12,200 -$18,300) has fetched more than 20 times its pre-sale estimate price.
The 19.5cm tall gilded green glass bowl is prized with a globular body and a short cylindrical neck with a rib.
The history of this Hookah takes us back to (1904-1947), in the house of John Clough its first owner who was an avid collector of Indian furniture and works of art and High Court Judge in Calcutta.
Rare Picasso masterpieces to be auctioned
Nobody else but only Pablo Picasso could think of making a portrait of himself without being overly self critical. In one-of-its-kind of auction-cum-display, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has planned to put up all its Picasso paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics on public display. The auction cum display will also include the damaged and the restored artwork of the legend which is known by the name ŔThe Actor.
The rare masterpieces which will be auctioned are “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” (Christie’s) and “Femme au Chapeau, Buste” (Sotheby’s). While “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” is expected to draw between $70 million and $90 million, “Femme au Chapeau, Buste” is touted to earn $8 million to $12 million.
The “inconvenient truth” behind Al Gore’s mega-millions..
Al Gore, the founder and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection has launched a $300 million advertising campaign to make Americans reduce carbon emissions and to put pressure on their political leaders to lower national carbon emissions (an Ŕissue that benefits his business interests).
He puts pressure on government to promote the low-carbon lifestyle through one of his multimillion-dollar organizations, the Alliance for Climate Protection which builds up another one of his other multimillion-dollar organizations, General Investment Management.
With Gore’s ever increasing investments in green energy companies, the former US President might be a super-committed individual determined to make the planet a better place, but the fact is that he is getting richer from his Å”environmentalism.
You’d also be interested to know that he earns $175,000 per speech. So much so for altruism?! Sigh.
Jaclo’s invigorating spa collection
Jaclo’s stimulating spa collection now features Aquavolo Duetto, a stainless steel fixture that provides the option of a waterfall shower and a rain shower, depending on which side you would like to tilt the showerhead. The Faucet features a decorative lamp with a rain canopy built right in to the base.
The other entrant in the collection is the Lumiere Circolare Rain Canopy, composed of a patterned semi-transparent cover. It is available in different designs and colors among a range of options.
The Dream Light Rain Canopy enables you to enjoy a revitalizing color while enjoying a refreshing shower. The futuristic design of this lit Rain Canopy features LED lights that illuminates falling water in white, blue, amber, red, green or warm white hued lights.
The York Column Ensemble, on the other hand, comes in a lustrous rectangular shape, further outfitted with an easy-to-clean function.
All these fixtures discussed above can be easily replaced with any shower valve.
Jason Giambi’s way of spending $100,000..
NY Yankees legend and co-owner of Hard Rock‘s Vanity night club in Las Vegas,Jason Giambi spent $100,000, in just a night.
Here‘s what he did: he gambled the night away in his casino whilst sipping on glasses of one of the only 100 3-liter, gold sheathed, laser-etched bottles of 1995 Dom Perignon white gold Jeroboam and flew 11 of his friends to enjoy a three-night stay at Giambi‘s nine-bedroom vacation villa in Cabo San Lucas villa.
The villa includes:nine bedrooms that gives panoramic ocean views of either the Pacific Ocean or the Sea of Cortez. Some even give you a view of the Marina as well, 16 HDTV LCD TVs that are located in key places throughout the house, agym, movie theatre, poker table, putting green, split-level swimming pool area, a cascading Jacuzzi, wine cellar and an outdoor kitchen-BBQ area with two fire pits. Additionally, the Casa Cielo staff caters to every whim and desire of guests.‚
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The $91,000 Oscar Consolation Prize
All the non-winning Oscar nominees in the main categories will receive a consolation gift bag containing $91,000 worth of free stuff put together by Distinctive Assets.
According to Dina Rezvanipour, VP, Distinictive Assets, we had so many tragedies this year, and the stars were so involved and generous that companies wanted to reward them.
The bags include:
- A private safari trip in South Africa worth $45,000 for up to eight adults and eight kids
- A $4,000 limited edition luxury Leather Travel Bag from Victorinox
- A $14,500 Monte Carlo trip
- A private-island vacation at a Turks & Caicos sporting club
- Swiss Army has crafted a special leather suitcase worth $4,000
- A $7,000 three-night all-inclusive rustic getaway to Winvian Luxury Hotel in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut
- Slimware portion-control plates
- 10 personal training sessions from Huntley Drive Fitness
- A $4,850 one week all-inclusive fitness bootcamp from Live In Fitness Enterprise
- A $500 La Peau Couture anti-wrinkle face cream.
- An HGTV Green Home Mattress Collection by Serta
- Chocolates from Chocolatines by Sweet Endeavours
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