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Two-tone Rolls Royce Ghost bespoke models
Rolls Royce the leading automobile company is not yet out of the surprising league at the Geneva Motor Show. Apart from launching the Phantom Series II, the luxury automaker has turned the spotlight on an “exclusive on-stand guest lounge”. And flagging off the initiative is a two-tone Rolls-Royce Ghost, the first bespoke option for the year, with a two-tone Phantom model. The car on display sports an Infinity Black finish with a Cassiopeia Silver upper two-tone.
The car features Seashell headlining and black leather frames black stained ash veneer, with carefully crafted steel pinstripes. On the inside, you can see lambswool floor mats.The second dual-tonned offering has been made for a Middle East client. This car comes in a Baynunah Brown, with Arizona Sun bonnet, window surrounds, roof and luggage compartment color scheme. And for that added dash of luxury, its features a gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament along with a double coach-line in gold finish.’
Gold-plated 2012 Nissan GT-R VVIP edition
Nissan has come up with a special edition of the Nissan GT-R supercar solely for the Middle East. A super-luxe beauty on wheels dubbed the 2012 Nissan GT-R VVIP edition, is sure be to be welcomed with open arms by the luxury car loving citizens of UAE and GCC. The high-end offering is a $266,000 gold-Plated GT-R, based on the 2012 Nissan GT-R.in terms of features, one can choose from a specially-tuned Bose sound system, 24-karat gold trim, and German leather trimming according to Japanese tradition which is available in twelve different color combinations. The 550 horsepower luxury supercar will surely have no trouble in wooing the rich and wealthy of the Middle East. A ravishing beauty indeed, Nissan surely wins our vote for creating one of the most luxurious cars this year.
Most expensive chocolate in the Middle East
If we talk about the most expensive and indulging chocolate in the Middle East there is no other name except Debauve & Gallais’s Dubai for the same reasons. The shop is out with the most expensive box of chocolates in the Middle East that comes at a whopping $105 per pound price tag. After looking at chocolate eggs, 14-Carat Chocolate Package, Pralines, chocolate rooms, fountains, and fashion statements. Well each box comes with a mixture of dark and different milk chocolates that includes Truffles and Marie Antoinette’s famous pistoles. This box has made it to the fourth position of the Forbes list of the world’s most expensive chocolate alongside Richart and Godiva “G” Collection.
Airnergy Avant Garde is jazzed up with Swarovski crystals
Companies are putting in large amounts of money for its research and development and holistic cosmetic producers Airnergy is one such classic example. Alongside its recent launch of the Airnergy Basis Plus and Avant Garde, the award-winning company is furnished with various designs in health-technology. Its bestseller is the Airnergy-Avant Garde Version “Cristal” which it claims can get the user to have an inside feeling of the filigree respiratory technique. The techniques have also reached the Middle East and a special Avant Garde design was ordered by an Emirate client. The exclusive product was 24 carat gold-plated and jeweled with close to 4,400 Swarovski crystals.
Bertz yellow leather furniture bling with Swarovski crystals
Opulence is best highlighted in gold or brilliant yellow and designers by German manufacturer Bretz … and it sparkles too. The handmade and upholstered leather set featuring a sofa, long stool, swivel chair and round stool has Swarovski Elements crystals giving it a very sparkling and rich effect. This is ideal for a home that is drained of all color and life this has the power to create electrifying moods! The Middle East would love this design.
Al Maabar of Abu Dhabi has Projects Under Development in MENA
Al Maabar has committed an investment of $300 million in a luxury hotel in Jordan. It has ambitious plans for MENA that is, Middle East and North Africa. They have announced that they will be going ahead with all the planned projects for the region.
The Amman hotel will be branded St. Regis from the Starwood stable. The hotel with 270 rooms is expected to be ready for business by the first quarter of 2014. Apart from the guest rooms the hotel will also have apartments and high end shops. Jordan has a large population of wealthy residents, expats and tourists who generate tremendous demand for hotels; hence the banks are more than willing to finance such projects.
Another major project for Al Maabar in Jordan is a group of 350 to 400 townhouses in Aqaba that will require an investment of $250 million. Al Maabar has about $1 billion worth of projects under development currently. In Morocco, the first phase of the Bab Al Bahr project is sold out and the second phase is to start soon. In Tripoli, Libya a $300 million project is to start soon.
Al Maabar has $1 Billion Worth of Projects Under Development in MENA
Al Maabar is an initiative of leading property developers including Aldar Properties and backed by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. It has committed an investment of $300 million in a luxury hotel in Jordan. It has ambitious plans for MENA that is, Middle East and North Africa. They have announced that they will be going ahead with all the planned projects for the region.
The Amman hotel will be branded St. Regis from the Starwood stable. The hotel with 270 rooms is expected to be ready for business by the first quarter of 2014. Apart from the guest rooms the hotel will also have apartments and high end shops. Jordan has a large population of wealthy residents, expats and tourists who generate tremendous demand for hotels; hence the banks are more than willing to finance such projects.
Another major project for Al Maabar in Jordan is a group of 350 to 400 townhouses in Aqaba that will require an investment of $250 million. Al Maabar has about $1 billion worth of projects under development currently. In Morocco, the first phase of the Bab Al Bahr project is sold out and the second phase is to start soon. In Tripoli, Libya a $300 million project is to start soon.
The Rolls Royce Ghost Arizona Sun rises
The whole world now knows that the Middle East exercises over luxury car markets in the world. Which makes it very little of a surprise that the first Bespoke Rolls Royce Ghost in the world in a dazzling “Arizona Sun’ color that landed at Rolls-Royce dealer in Abu Dhabi was sold no sooner than it landed at the showroom. The Ghost is powered with a new 6.6 liter twin-turbo V12 engine and can go from 0-60 mph just 4.7 and hit top speeds of 155mph Inspired by the spirit, furnishing styles, and yachts in 1930′s the in-house designs for the Ghost have be crafted at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars plant at Goodwood, England.
Pink Diamond Boutique ropes in 4SPOTS for Online Store
Pink Diamond Boutique will soon open a store online as its popularity among people in the Middle East has risen considerably. It was first established in Bahrain in 2007 and their boutique offers fashion forward items such as jewellery, baby items, accessories and general gifts.
The opulent gifts could be striking sometimes, but worry not they would keep you dazzled for quite some time. Farah bint Khalid, Founder of Pink Diamond Boutique revealed that she approached 4SPOTS to create the online store. It is one of the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Online stores are finally catching up in the Middle East where buying trends have usually been limited to visiting the glitzy malls or gold souks. 4SPOTS sure will revolutionize Pink Diamond Boutique with all the mobile applications for blackberry and iPhone, the build of portals, social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and more.
A 16th century rare Ottoman box soon to be sold at Sotheby’s
On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, Sotheby’s biannual Arts of the Islamic World Auction will put for sale a 16th century Ottoman ivory and turquoise-inlaid box set with rubies.
An astonishing talent of Safavid craftsmen for the exclusive use of the Shah and the governing elite during the first half of the 16th century, the box measures 17.3cm in length, 8.8cm in width and 3.2cm in height.
Specifications:
- Ruby jeweled-rosette
- Ivory filets carefully fitted along the object’s edges
- Mosaic-sliced turquoise or firuzekari
- Split-Palmette patterns
- Symmetrical panels containing intricately carved and gold-inlaid vegetal patterns
According to Edward Gibbs, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Middle East and India Department, Its sumptuous ornamentation is unmatched in elegance and skill, rendering it an item of the highest aesthetic and historical value.
Expected to generate up to $1,000,000.
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