The latest luxury collaboration involves Poggenpohl and Porsche Design who have been working hard to design a luxury kitchen specifically suited to men. The kitchen was available from Spring 2008 and is defined by rectangular aluminium frames in a range of sizes. Within these frames, customers can position cabinet elements in any configuration; the result is a modular, spacious and extremely versatile system that deliberately integrates clear spaces into the overall design concept.
Aluminium, a material typically used by Porsche Design, gives the P’7340 kitchen an innovative and technical look to both the furniture carcases and the frames. This is combined with a choice of sleek matt or gloss polished glass – coloured on the underside in a selection of neutral tones including Deep Black, Pure White, Frozen Green, Platinum Beige and Olive Green. Two open-grained, textured wood varieties, Driftwood and Dark Oak, provide a contrast with these cool materials. Slim worktops crafted from satin-finished glass, quartz or smooth stone elegantly complete the cabinetry.
Read more...
If you love designer bathrooms and showers you need to appreciate the Hansa Colour Shower. Producing a range of colourful rain showers via a set of high powered LEDs integrated into the shower head which depict the entire colour spectrum, this little addition to your shower is said to offer an intensive, vitalising or relaxing shower experience.
Users can control various programmes or individual colours via an illuminated operating panel: the selection includes an active spray and surge spray from the showerhead, an additional body spray and a 2-spray hand shower.
Prices start from £1,432.19 and you can buy yours from the Hansa website.
Travelling in style and luxury this summer? You might need the luggage to match. The Valextra Frers line offers the very finest in luxury luggage designs.
Borne out of a collaboration with Valextra’s craftsmen and German Frers (the super yacht designer) this luggage is for the uber traveller.
The Valextra line is being offered by London’s Harrod’s store from August. They say:
Read more...
Posted by Peter Brady on Mon 4th August 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Drinks
Exclusive to Harrods is the new Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut Limited Edition Spring Gift complete with a Baccarat vase – the world’s finest crystal – and a bottle of the deliciously fresh Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut Champagne.
Retailing at £1,000 ($1,960 approx) this is a limited numbered edition – with only 250 vases in the series.
Decorated with an unusual pink-enamel design in cherry blossom, the crystal vase is ideal for showcasing a magnificent summer bouquet. This versatile piece is also an elegant champagne bucket, designed to chill a bottle of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut to perfection.
If you’re looking for designer verticle radiators then you really have to go no further than the new ‘Marbella’ from Aeon. These natural stone radiators are growing in popularity due to their contemporary chic and aesthetic qualities.
.jpg)
Specially selected pieces of tactile, polished or matt natural stone are interspersed with horizontal belts of mirror polished or brushed matt stainless steel to create a sculptural design of contrasting materials. A choice of three stones - polished black granite, polished beige marble and matt beige travertine - offers a tone to suit a variety of decoration schemes.
Read more...
