Luxury Lifestyle

Most expensive string musical instrument

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:48:34 +0000

Evidently, the fiddle is the most popular stringed musical instrument. This instrument comes from Italy in the 16th century, and the oldest existing nowadays fiddle dates to 1564.
In April 2005 the ‘Lady Tennant Stradivarius’ violin was sold by New York’s Christie auction for $2.03 million US dollars.
Primarily this expensive fiddle was owned by Charles Lafont, and the name of the instrument came from Sir Charles Tennant who acquired it for his wife in 1900.
Stradivari presumably created about 1,100 violins and 650 of them are supposed to survive till our days. Violins of other Stradivari’s contemporaries, including Amati, Guarneri and Maggini also fetched high prices at auctions.

World’s most expensive camera

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:49:39 +0000

One may think that the “most expensive camera” is a super high-tech digital camera with unbelievable specifications and stuffed with all possible and impossible innovations.
So, you will be surprised to hear that a Daguerreotype camera dating back to 1839 is likely to be the world’s most expensive camera and will be sold by auction in May 2007. The camera designed by Frenchman Susse Freres is incased in a sliding wooden box frame and is also supposed to be the oldest camera in the world, being a prize to collectors.
A Daguerreotype image is achieved by creating a direct image onto a polished silver surface. This way of photo making was one of the earliest in camera technology but its unconventional characteristics like the inability to make copies made it outdated within a decade.
Current holder of the most expensive camera is a scholar in the US who inherited it from his dad. The auction will start at $132,000 US, but the old and expensive camera expected to get over $1 million at the auction in Vienna, Austria.

Most Expensive Meal if you have an enormous appetite

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:01:09 +0000

If your bank account matches your appetite then you may enjoy yourself with clearly over-priced meal.
Thailand Dome Restaurant in Bankok serves up what was stated the most expensive meal ever sold for the passed couple months. The six chefs who prepared this expensive meal came from France, Germany and Italy. The ingredients they used were also delivered from all over the world. As for the guest-list, it consisted of 15 people, for the most part real estate and gaming tycoons from Asia and the United States. The most expensive meal costed about $30,000, without tax and tip.
The expensive wine list certainly fit all tastes. It was estimated that the wine list all together counted around $200,000 and included a rare Rothschild estate wine. Guests may drink also fine champagne. When visitor Sophiane Foster was asked how she liked the meal she said that she can’t finish it.
Those who want experience such entertainment may turn to the Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which reported the menu for the World’s most expensive meal:
Creme brulee of foie gras with Tonga beans
Alain Soliveres (chef)
1990 Louis Roederer Cristal
Tartar of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belons oyster
Antoine Westermann
1995 Krug Clos du Mesnil
Mousseline of pattes rouges crayfish with morel mushroom infusion
Alain Soliveres
2000 Corton-Charlemagne, Domaine Jean Francois Coche-Dury
Tarte Fine with scallops and black truffle
Antoine Westermann
1996 Le Montrachet, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti
Lobster Osso Buczco
Jean-Michel Lorain
1985 Romanee-Conti, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti
Ravioli with guinea fowl and burrata cheese, veal reduction
Annie Feolde
1961 Chateau Palmer
Saddle of lamb “Leonel”
Marc Meneau
1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild
Sorbet “Dom Perignon”
Supreme of pigeon en croute with cepes mushroom sauce and cipollotti
Heinz Winkler
1961 Chateau Haut-Brion
Veal cheeks with Perigord truffles
Heinz Winkler
1955 Chateau Latour

Most expensive sweeties

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:39:08 +0000

Truffles are well-known to be expensive because they are difficult to cultivate. This makes them a real delicacy which some people have called the king of all fungi. What is the world’s most expensive truffle? These are white truffles and they are even are more expensive than black truffles.
The AP reported that a real estate investor and his wife from Hong Kong have paid $160,406 USD for a large Italian White Alba truffle which is said to be the world’s most expensive ever. The most expensive truffle weighs 1.51 kilograms (3.3 lbs).
Last year in Hong Kong a group of buyers paid €95,000 for a 1.2-kilogram (2.7-pound) truffle. Guinness World Records then named this purchase as the most expensive truffle bought at an auction.
With the recent growing popularity of culinary TV shows, expensive truffles are being proposed to a wider audience as never before. But nobody knows how much will cost this delicacy in the nearest future.

A luxury cruise

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:18:14 +0000

A luxury travel is something that people often dream for years and save money to be able to enjoy. Modern ships are floating luxury resorts with full services and “all inclusive”. Many luxury cruise ships have almost as many crew members as they do capacity for passengers. Private charters are the most expensive and extraordinary way to spend a vacation on the sea. If you want to experience the ultra-luxury available only for elite who can afford wastefulness, you have to ask what is the most expensive yacht in the world?
The world’s most expensive charter yachts are the Annaliesse and her sister ship, Alysia. They are not only the most expensive yachts available for charter at a price of €94,500 per day or €661,500 per week, but they are also the most luxurious with incredible facilities.
The ships can carry up to 36 passengers with 34 crew members for over 7,000 nautical miles. The yachts offer for your rest over 2,400 sq meters (25,833 sq feet). On board environment helps to understand the price of the expensive yacht travel: a marble faced Roman bath, saunas, steam rooms, cold plunge pools, Jacuzzis, a beauty salon, therapy beds and massage facilities, a fully equipped gymnasium, cinema, library, business center and a helicopter landing pad.

Forbes: the richest clubs and the most highly paid football players

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:40:13 +0000

Forbes has published ratings of the richest clubs of the world and the most highly paid football players of a planet.
English Manchester United, according to researches of American magazine Forbes, remains the most expensive football club in the world.
Cost of Manchester has been appreciated by Forbes experts in 1,453 billion dollars in annually published rating. The sum was determined taking into account team incomes for 2005-2006 and commercial value of shares and stadiums of the club.
The second position of a rating in comparison with the last year kept the Madrid Real (1,036 billion dollars). Third place took London Arsenal (915 million dollars) having removed Italian Milan.
In a rating of the most highly paid football players are David Bekhem who gave way to Brazilian player of the Spanish Barcelona Ronaldinho. The salary, sponsor’s contracts and advertising has brought him in 2006 29,5 million dollars. Bekhem for the last year has earned 400 thousand dollars less. The third place has got one more Brazilian - Ronaldo (23,4 million dollars).

Automobile disks for $2 millions: a new word in luxury

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:30:11 +0000

The American Asanti, devoted itself to exclusive wheel disks production, has let out a new line - ASF 130 Series. The complete set of such wheels will cost for the buyer 2 million dollars. Representatives of the company assure that these are the most expensive disks in the world.
The person, who lives to the full extent, wants to shine always and everywhere. For this reason many well-offs cover with jewelry things, which surround them to emphasize their status. Recently to the number of such things joined automobiles. Gilt, enchased with brilliants and other precious and semiprecious stones cars became the proof of person’s welfare.
New Asanti product is so expensive, that only elite can afford it – people for whom a world “budget” is something from slang. New exclusive ASF 130 Series are the 34-inch disks enchased with 26000 brilliants and 1200 rubies. And cost of one such disk is equated to the price for the excellent automobile. Probably, such disks will have adequately look on the superknown diamond car of one of the Arabian sheikhs. Or, as a last resort, on Mercedes-Benz SL 500 Crystal.

Expensive perfumery: world`s most expensive nail polish and perfume

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:40:00 +0000

How could feel yourself a woman wearing pure nail polish with platinum dust in it? And how many people would be crazy enough to do that? There are a lot of them, as it appeared. The ‘I Do’ polish, the most expensive in the world, is a collaboration by Allure magazine, platinum supplier Johnson Matthey, PGI and Essie Cosmetics. The polish costs $250 per bottle. To tell more, the first bottle was displayed in special bottle made with a platinum top and base that is valued at $55,000.

And 47,500 pound sterling is the cost of the world’s most expensive perfume. Really, the best things come in small packages. The fragrance, created by famous British perfumer Arthur Burnham, is kept in a 4 in bottle made with platinum, 24 carat gold, rubies and diamonds.
Etui is a very special box constructed by Rolls-Royce coach builders, locked with a gold and jewel-studded key. Encouraged by the Rolls-Royce Phantom Six, it is called Parfum VI. Who can pay 47,500 pounds for a bottle of perfume? Michael Jackson has ordered two and Mike Tyson three. And only173 are being made.

World`s most expensive watch and phone

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:54:04 +0000

One of the most intricated watches,which has been ever made, became also the most expensive watch ever sold when it was sold for $11 million at Sotheby auction.
The gold pocket watch has 24 complications, (complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds.)

Peter Aloisson, who makes gold phones covered in diamonds for wealthy clients, made the most expensive phone ever. It costs more than a BMW 3 or a Jaguar S-Type. Motorola cell phone decorated with 1200 diamonds and featuring a keyboard covered with 18-carat gold, was priced at 28, 000 British pound.
The new phone broke the previous record set by another Aloisson ‘Diamante’ phone - an identical model which had trivial 950 diamonds in the gold body. That phone sold for 23, 000 pound.

List of the most expensive champagnes of 2006

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:32:23 +0000

Have you ever thought over, how much do you spend for a bottle of champagne? $30? $150? $400? And whether this drink is worth it? Regardless of the price, it is necessary to remember, that this celebratory sparkling drink cannot be cheap, if it is really of high-quality.
Let’s return to the main thing - to the list of the most expensive champagnes. The first and second places occupy Krug Clos du Mesnil and the Bollinger Blanc de Noir, one bottle is sold for $750 and $500 accordingly. These sparkling drinks are unique, as the amount of the grapes, grown for their manufacture on special vineyards, is strictly limited. These trade-marks are well-known among wine connoisseurs, and even such prices don’t affect sales.
The third place took champagne Rose from Dom Perignon. Here the situation is a little bit another. Champagne Rose is very popular in this season, especially among the young well-to-do person who pay great attention to club parties. Dom Perignon costs $400 while any other kind of champagne Rose is sold for about $170 for a bottle.
The fourth place has occupied champagne Salon le Mesnil from Blanc de Blanc for $300, and on the fifth place champagne Krug of 1995 for $200.