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…
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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