Posted by Peter Brady on Fri 15th June 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Furniture
Duxiana have a long pedigree of engineering sumptuously comfortable beds.
Their web site says:
“Since 1926 three generations of the Ljung family of Sweden have aspired to produce the most comfortable and technologically advanced beds on the market. For over 75 years we have studied ways to blend the science of sleep with the ultimate in comfort.
Our philosophy has always been that deep sleep can only be achieved through a full understanding of the needs of the human body.”
Their philosophy alone is something to marvel!
The cherry on the cake for this particular company was securing “Best Bed” at the Annual Wallpaper Awards for the luxurious Dux 7007. Retailing at £2,705 ($5000) it’s cheap at the price.
Do you love your vinyl and have a spare £150,000? Surely only the likes of Pete Tong, Judge Jules and Paul Oakenfield would want to snap one of these beauties up!
There are only 25 on the planet and that’s the way it is going to stay say manufacturer Goldmund.
The design itself is out of this world, and weighing in at 20kg his baby boasts:
• Machined to a hundredth of a millimeter
• Motor vibration-shielded by 15kg of brass
• Teflon-insulated signal-carring electronics
• It even has its own plinth
• Liquid nitrogen-rectified belt
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The Swiss Caran d’Ache company recently created this fine piece f craftsmanship in memory of architect extraordinaire Antonio Gaudi. It recently sold at Harrods for a record £130,000.
The rhodium-coated solid silver pen has an 18-karat gold pen point and is pave-set with 5,072 diamonds and 96 half-cut.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery recently decided to auction off 207 items from its permanent collection.
The famous Artemis and Stag bronze statue, hand crafted by a Roman sculptor some 2000 years ago sold for a record $25.5m making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction, along with the most expensive antiquity, and the 24 other items sold along with it Thursday bring the gallery’s total haul to about $64.2 million.
The sale took more than 10 minutes, with the bidding increasing in $100,000 increments and confined to only four people. There were, it seems, no contending phone bidders, so it’s safe to say that the atmosphere in the room was likely extremely intense.
The bidder was identified as European, watch this space to see if it ends up back on public view.
Japan’s Kiwami Studio have just launched (5th June 07) the sexiest iPod Nano case on the market. It’s a milled titanium protector case around the £400 mark!
That makes the case 5 times more expensive than the iPod itself.
Now why on Earth would anybody pay that!?! Yeah it’s good looking, but come on…
