Feb. 14.

ROLLS-ROYCE opens first showroom in Latin America

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The first Rolls-Royce showroom in Latin America has opened in the Brazilian.
The chosen city is São Paulo concretely in the Avenida Cidade Jardim, 691. The Via Italia Group, headquartered in São Paulo, is Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ appointed dealer in Brazil.

The new 500 m² showroom has been designed to provide discerning clientele with a relaxing atmosphere  and one ideally site to test the car. All Phantom and Ghost family models will be available for customer order.
Via/Rolls-Royce

Salon du chocolat 2011©Julien Millet
Oct. 31.

Chocolat Fashion show in Paris

The Salon du Chocolat invented the unique and audacious idea of associating the finest fashion designers and the most talented chocolatiers to create exceptional couture masterpieces.

Fashion designers and chocolatiers combine their know-how and creativity to design unique pieces of art for the Salon du Chocolat.
Every day at 5:00pm, visitors are invited to discover the now famous Chocolate Fashion Show and to admire the gourmand creations in a dedicated permanent exhibition.

Via / LeSalonduChocolat

la creme
Oct. 29.

The ultimate expression of Clé de Peau Beauté

The largest cosmetics manufacturer of Japan, Shiseido did release the most expensive face cream ever sold. Named “La Crème,” it is a commemorative release to mark the 30thanniversary of Clé de Peau Beauté.

An exceptional, luxurious, high-performance nighttime cream serum that brings unparalleled age-defying benefits to the complexion for flawless, radiant, more youthful skin overnight. Addresses all signs of aging to visibly and remarkably improve skin’s texture and radiance.

venus steve jobs yacht
Oct. 29.

Super yacht designed by Apple’s Steve Jobs

A year after his death, the family of Apple founder Steve Jobs have helped launch the super yacht.

Jobs reportedly spent years designing the 250-foot yacht called Venus which is steered from the control room or wheelhouse by a group of 27-inch iMacs, according to Business Insider.
The light-weight yacht  is 80 meters long and its sleek design with a line of large square windows and the minimalist sun deck.
With an aluminum hull and exterior as well as its own speed boat, the ship is thought to be both lighter and faster than your average yacht.

French designer Philippe Starck helped Jobs create the sleek interior which features a jacuzzi and ten-foot high window panels for the cabins which are forty feet long.

iphone 5 gold
Oct. 29.

24ct gold iphone 5

Apple iphone 5 fully embellished in 24ct gold  and polished to a superior mirror finish. This stunning iPhone  is uniquely crafted. Best quality S/Diamonds are added to its own mounted 24ct gold logo and home button. Like the diamond setting process each stone is individually set into cut clasps adding seductive detail. The handset is 64gb and unlocked to all networks worldwide.
Price – £2,695.00

Vía / Goldstriker

Fifth Avenue
Aug. 29.

Most Expensive Shopping Streets

When it comes to expensive retail stores, the Big Apple have top spot. Fifth Avenue remains the most expensive shopping street in the world but the city gets stiff competition from Hong Kong. Tokyo, also appears twice with Ginza and Omotesando and Paris’ famous Avenue des Champs Elysees and London’s New Bond Street also make it to this list of the priciest retail streets.

Ranking:

  1. Fifth Avenue in New York City
  2. Causeway Bay in Hong Kong
  3. Central in Hong Kong
  4. Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong
  5. East 57th Street in New York City
  6. Ginza in Tokyo
  7. Pitt Street Mall in Sydney
  8. Avenue Des Champs Elysees in Paris
  9. Omotesando in Tokyo
  10. New Bond Street in London

Are also in the ranking; Via Montenapoleone in Milan, Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Myeongdong in Seul, Kaufingerstrasse in Munich…

Golden-Phoenix
Aug. 13.

Cakes with exquisite taste

Cakes are relished by one and all but here we have listed some examples that very few of us can allow.

Cupcake Gourmet, a Philadelphia-based cupcake store had made the Sparkling Red Velvet Cupcake for the Valentine’s Day. It is a traditional cupcake with an eight-carat engagement ring from Warwick Jewelers in the frosting. $55.000

 

Called the Golden Phoenix, the cupcake is made with an extensive use of 23 carat edible gold sheets. It is special creation to celebrate the opening of the cupcake franchise Bloomsbury’s in the Dubai Mall. $1.000

Commissioned by Swarovski. This amazing wedding cake has six tiers and in the centre a gorgeous floral pomander ball centerpiece. The delicate blooms are carefully garnished with genuine Swarovski crystals. Over 50,000 individual Swarovski crystals were used, including inside the sugar flowers. Designed by Ron Ben-Israel

The Brownie Extraordinaire is sold at Brulee, a restaurant in the Tropicana Resort located in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It’s made out of dark chocolate that is then covered with Italian hazelnuts and served with a scoop of ice cream. Along with the sweet dessert, customers are also given a very expensive port wine, Quinta do Novel Nicional, from Portugal. $1.000

 

 

100 interiors around the world
Aug. 02.

100 Interiors Around the World

This TASCHEN 25 Edition rounds up some of today’s most exceptional and inspiring interiors on six continents.
Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, the painstakingly chosen and sumptuously photographed selection of 100 interiors represents a global spectrum of contemporary styles, from rustic minimalism to urbane eclecticism.
What unites these dwellings is authenticity, a love of detail, and a zest for individual expression that will never go out of fashion.

XSR
Aug. 01.

The world’s most advanced performance interceptor

The XSR Interceptor is the world’s most technically advanced vessel in its class, providing governments and commercial users with high speed interception and offshore patrol capability to counter the most complex of modern waterborne threats.

XSMG has selected a series of defence partners including Thales, Kongsberg, FLIR and QinetiQ, with operational and logistics support from Atkins Defence.

Via / Xsmgworld

bottega veneta
Aug. 01.

The latest from Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta presents a collection for autumm/winter 2012 that is sporty yet sophisticated, rugged and alluring. Extravagance epitomized; supple velvet, organic rubber, silver detail and translucent film in vivid color come together with sturdy cotton, wool and cashmere to create a collection that is unrivaled.

Via /Bottega Veneta

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