Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest man is reported to be building what could be the most expensive residential property on the planet, in Mumbai. It will certainly be the tallest!
It is a billion dollar project made of glass and steel, and based slap in the middle of the financial capital of India. It will reportedly be a 27–story building designed to house his family of six and staff of 600, with six floors dedicated to the storage and parking of Ambani’s 168 automobiles. The top four floors will be set aside for family living.
Completion is reported to be in the Fall 2008, but don’t hold your breath!
Damien Hirst’s new piece which comprises a skull encrusted with nearly 9,000 diamonds is attracting controversy in some quarters.
Visitors to the jewellers, Butler and Wilson, can apparently choose from a range of pieces that look “eerily” similar to the artist’s most recent piece.
All I have to say to that is hog wash…
I am not a huge fan of Damien Hirst’s work, but if anybody is even vaguely drawing a comparison between this crumby, mass produced junk as seen below, and the quite staggering diamond encrusted skull - then their in cloud cuckoo land.
According to The Mail:
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Now here’s an inspiring gadget; The Winepod allows you to make all your own wine with the assistance of your computer.
You control the aging, fermentation and pressing via the wireless connection to software on your computer.
The software is named Dashboard and it will keep you organized, sorting all the information about your wine and asks you relevant questions to provide you with the exact wine you’re looking for. The machine does he rest!
Although it’s around £1750, if you’re a big wine fan and always fancied a go at making your own then this is for you. You don’t need acres of vineyards or even a beret, just a wireless connection and a computer.
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Produced by the French manufacturer Susse Freres around 1839, the Daguerreotype has just gone under the hammer and made a huge $792,333. he auction attracted buyers from across the globe but the final winner has remained anonymous.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
The daguerreotype is an early type of photograph in which the image is exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapor. In later developments bromine and chlorine vapors were also used, resulting in shorter exposure times. Unlike later photographic processes that supplanted it, the daguerreotype is a direct positive image-making process with no “negative” original.
Posted by Peter Brady on Fri 1st June 2007 at 03:34 AM, Filed in Luxury Drinks
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold was the 1787 vintage Sauternes from Château Yquem that went for a record US$100,000. That’s £10,000 a glass!
The purchaser was a fine wine collector from the US.
But at over 200 years old what will the wine taste like? “Château Yquem is a sweet wine made in Bordeaux from completely shrivelled up, late harvested grapes. It has the concentration that enables it to mature for many years, even centuries. Apart from the taste, the enjoyment of wine as old as this is a remarkably nostalgic experience. In 1787 when peasants in Bordeaux were picking these grapes, George Washington became the first President of the United States, the French Revolution began, George III was King of England and James Watt was developing the steam engine!”
