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Most expensive rental apartment in New York
If we think that Manhattan has anything in store for people who are looking for a few lesser amounts. For all sorts of luxury lovers who look at the “most expensive” tag, here is the Astor Suite at The Plaza Hotel, the most expensive rental apartment in NYC on the market for $165,000 per month. This The famous hotel was built in 1907 and an interesting historic appeal attached to its name. The first ever guest who walked in was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and after World War II, guests such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John F. Kennedy stayed there. The suite here is being sold by residential brokerage firm Prudential Douglas Elliman and is spread over 5,087 square feet.
The suite has essence of bespoke luxury in each of its elements like the leather walls with one-of-a-kind patter, silk rugs and herringbone-patterned wooden floors. It also shows off state-of-the-art technology here with a heating/cooling system for protecting artwork, a Savant system that controls everything in the apartment from an iPad, and televisions hidden behind paintings on a hydraulic lift.
A Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese Lacquer Commode
The new high set up at Sotheby for a commode is $6,914,500. Under its four-day auction of Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safrawith earned a staggering $45,900,064.Of the 800 lots of magnificent European furniture and works of art, Russian works of art, silver, paintings and book bindings, dated to 18th-century went under the hammer, a Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese Lacquer Commode was the high point in lot two.The commode with secretaire en suite, credited to Adam Weisweiler, fetched a massive $6,914,500.
Paintings made by young Hitler sold for over 95,000 pounds
A rare collection of paintings by Adolf Hitler from his time as a struggling artist sold for more than 95,000 pounds. Mullock’s Art Auctioneers in London sold a series of watercolors painted by the young Nazi leader when he was in his early 20s and hoping to become an artist.
The works were mostly landscapes and were found earlier this year in a garage. A work that appears to be a self-portrait that portrays a man using a side-parting and sitting on a stone bridge sold for 10,000 pounds. The work was signed with the initials A.H. Richard Westwood-Brookes from Mullock’s stated, “I am very pleased. I thought they would go for between five and six thousand. Unfortunately for the world, he was not accepted into the Vienna Academy, which was where he wanted to be. Of course, if he had been accepted, then we would have known him today as an artist and not as an evil tyrant.”
Baby Grand Hotel is funky and cool with original creativity
A luxury hotel providing you with all the comforts in the world is nothing new. What the Baby Grand Hotel at Athens provides its visitors is something totally out of the box. The work of 10 talented artists from the world has resulted into an atmosphere of underground art and graffiti. Fabulously funky and fun, Baby Grand Hotel is a refreshingly eccentric mix of cool urban vibe and quirky creativity in central Athens.
From graffiti-painted rooms to the Meat Me hip restaurant, a chilled out Moet & Chandon Bar and a decadent spa, it is youthful and vibrant. Modern street cool meets retro psychedelia in the first floor lobby where the reception desks are two vintage Mini Coopers. Choose from classical rooms with muted colour schemes to the whimsical Graffiti rooms and suites each with unique wall paintings depicting an extraordinary range of subjects from legendary cartoon characters and Japanese street art to jungle scenes and Chinese landscapes.
Unusual gay coffins available in Germany city of Cologne
The coffin is designed with images of mostly naked and muscular young men in athletic poses inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings. The coffins have already become a hit in the gay market and makers Mike Konigsfeld and Tom Brandl said they branched out to tap the gay market because of the increasing number of special requests they were receiving. The designers “” who have lived together for more than 10 years said they provided an individual and different service which offered “a warm and fantastical departure for same-sex couples.” As per research, one in ten of Cologne’s population is homosexual so, the business is definitely going to earn them profit. “People are cutting back in the recession but the one group of consumers who still have high spending power are gay couples and very few people are designing for them in this market,” Mike concluded.
Turner painting makes new auction record with a price of 29.7 million pounds
J.M.W.Turner is rightly regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. The famed artist who was well-known for his oil paintings has indeed created history as one of his great masterpiece Modern Rome “” Camp Vaccino has been sold for 29.7 million pounds at the leading London auctioneer Sotheby’s making a new auction record for the British master.
Hazlett, Gooden & Fox on behalf of The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. It was sold by a descendant of the fifth Earl of Rosebury, who bought the painting while on honeymoon in 1878, according to the auction house. The previous auction record for a Turner work was 20.5 million pounds, which was set by “Giudecca, La Donne della Salute and San Giorgio” in April 2006, it said in a statement. The 1839 masterpiece sold Wednesday was the British artist’s final painting of the Italian capital, completed at a period when he was regarded as being at the height of his technical powers.
It was part of a sale of Old Master and British Paintings, which made a total of 53.5 million pounds. Another highlight of the sale was three paintings by the Brueghel dynasty of artists. Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s “The Kermesse of Saint George with the Dance Around the Maypole” sold for 2.5 million pounds, while his “The Outdoor Wedding Feast” went for 1.6 million pounds.
Another beauty from the MCP yacht stable
Check out this beauty cruising on the waters “” a new red and white coloured luxury super-yacht from its makers MCP, producers of luxury yachts, custom built for a demanding Russian client.
Brazilian based shipyard MCP states that some of the most modern construction technology has been used to build this one of a kind yacht. Aptly called the Red Pearl “” this 30.48 metres yacht features exquisite paintings, a games room with a beautiful piano, modern LED lighting, a NAIAD zero speed system and many other attractive features on the deck.
The sleek interior, which has the same red and white theme as its outer body, is styled with the best in modern wood, stylish furniture and smart space usage; and can be pitted against the best luxury suites around the world.
Faberg diamonds make a rare show at London’s Russian Week
It was time for the glitterati to descend themselves from the altars as it were to make a rare appearance at London’s Russian Week. From exclusive icons, murals, paintings, porcelain and jewellery, this “god of auction’ had the titans like Sothbey’s, Christie’s and Bonhams gunning for a kill in sales.
Century-old Faberg, the name behind the rarest jewellery also unveiled their new collection, at this very venue “” a once-in-a-blue-moon affair almost given the fact that this is only the second time since September 2009, that the super “” luxury brand has done so, ever since it opened its door in 1917.
This new high-jewellery collection called the “Le Carnet de Bal” in white diamond recalls the aristocracy of St. Petersberg “” a time when noble women still used actual dance cards to coordinate their gallant galavanting across the ballroom floor. The “all white-diamond’ collection features items valued as high as $1 million.
The Exotic Worlds of Artist Hunt Slonem
The Worlds of Hunt Slonem by Dominique Nahas from Vendome Press is an in-depth, lavishly illustrated look at the oeuvre of the renowned painter, whose work can be found in the collections of over 100 museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim in New York.
Over 600 images are featured in the vibrant volume which spans an acclaimed 30-year career. Many of Slonem’s paintings are based on his personal aviary of 100 birds of various colorful species, a living mosaic from which to draw inspiration.
Slonem is also famed for his equally vivid collection of properties, including a 30,000-square-foot studio in Manhattan, a gothic mansion in upstate New York and not one, but two, historic plantations in Louisiana, all filled with rarified furniture and antiques.
In addition to birds, the artist is celebrated for his paintings of rabbits, butterflies and monkeys, though he also does brilliant portraits of human subjects including everyone from Alfred Hitchcock and Abraham Lincoln to his famed friends and collectors like Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone and Tommy Hilfiger.
Paintings by Husain fetch millions
MF Husain’s paintings auctioned off at two art houses in New York fetched $4.7 million in sales. The collection of more than 20 paintings by the legendary painter, who passed away in June this year, included some of his masterpieces like “Man with Sitar’ and “Sprinkling Horses’.
Thirteen of these paintings were part of Christie’s Asia Week sales and 11 of them were auctioned off at Sotheby’s. “Sprinkling Horses’ the painting with the maestro’s signature in Hindi and Urdu alone fetched $1.14million. His “Man with Sitar’ went under the hammer for $146,500. Another painting “The Three Graces’ fetched $482,500.
The controversial painter’s works have previously sold for enormous amounts at auctions. In 2005, “Empty Bowl at the Last Supper’ by him was sold for $2million and in 2008, ‘Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata’ fetched $1.6 million.
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