The sun’s blazing and the foods becoming more barbequed by the minute. What better to complete your summer garden party than with this incredible Sonos multi room music stsyem. It can actually distribute music in up to 32 rooms!
Controlled by one ultra stylish little controller you can access all the songs on your PC or Mac as well as Napster’s catalogue of 5 million to stream your ultimate summer tunes around the house to accompany your barby/ party or general summer lazing around.
Sonos even gives you the chance to create different party zones. For example you could have The Proclaimers and Spandau Ballet in the living room for you and have the latest Hotel Costes album playing the garden to chill out to. However you want to set things up your Sonos its easy set up and stylish looks suits the most sophisticated of homes around.
The Sonos BU130 kit retails at £699.
More information here on the Sonos website
Ovens… not sexy right? WRONG...!
I learnt about this recently, La Cornue’s Château cooker costing £15,000 ($30,000) and designed in this stunningly garish Provence yellow enamel, with a nickel and satin stainless steel trim – IT WORKS FOR SOME STRANGE REASON!
All the products in the Château cooker range are built to order and there are only about a few hundred cookers manufactured and distributed around the world making especially desirable.
Trims for Château ovens are available in brass, copper, chrome or nickel and in a palette of twenty three enamel colours and a stainless steel or copper body. The best bit is that you can even customise your own Château oven with a personal touch and design your own custom colour or decorations.
If you have never heard of Poul Henningsen, you need to! He’s a very famous Dane that has brought us some of the most stunning architecture known to man.
This little beauty is known as the Artichoke and is a celebration of the man who created it 50 years ago. The recreation is glass and special technicians with many letters after their names are currently responsible for putting them together for a brand called Louis Poulsen.
Prices start from £12,000 - £18,000 dependent upon glass thickness.
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To celebrate National BBQ Week (26th May to 1st June 2008) celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has launched his own BBQ.
‘Whatever next’ I hear you say, but wait… this is a quality piece of garden kit! Look past the signed door (?!) and you’ll find a Five-Burner Wagon Grill crafted in full stainless steel featuring:
• four main burners beneath the large lower grill area
• a smaller upper grill level with ceramic grill which is used to crisp up food and keep it warm once cooked
• an additional fifth burner to the side provides a separate area perfect for using to make sauces and keep them warm.
Prices start from £349 and go up to £699 and strong PVC and Vinyl covers are available to purchase separately
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‘It’s just another BBQ’ I hear you say… well, you’re wrong!
This is a portable kitchen! There are four ranges to choose from, the Ultima Plus, Ultima, Premium Plus and Premium. The Premium (& Plus) offers:
• powerful burners
• warming rack
• Cordierite self cleaning heat diffusers
• 1.5v battery powered ignition knobs
• a smoker drawer
• a 220v-50hz rotisserie motor, complete with stainless steel spit.
The Ultima Plus barbecues are teamed with a trolley which has a removable lower rack, useful stainless steel accessory drawer and two fold-down stainless steel sides.
Prices start at £999.00 and end up around £2299.
Find out more here.
