The long wait for Jeff Koons ‘Hanging Heart’ auction has come to an end when it got sold for $23.6 million on 14 November. This stainless steel heart hanging sculpture has become the most luxurious piece by a living artist ever auctioned. This lately happened auction set a record for the living artist by beating the earlier record of Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby Spring,” which sold for $19.5 million at Sotheby’s in London in June.

The 9 feet tall Koons Hanging Heart was installed at the Gagosian Gallery, which had also collected his “Diamond (Blue)” sculpture for $11.8 million at a Christie’s auction. A private American collector offered this sculpture for sale with an anticipated sale of $15-$20 million. But finally it fetched $23.6 mn (includes Sotheby’s commission).

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Likewise phoenix, the “Earth” has also evolved from the debris. Known as “Spaceship Earth,” this seven-metre-high million-dollar stone sculpture weighing 160-tonnes got warped 10 months ago at Kennesaw State University leaving behind a residue of blue quartz and bronze. But that was not the end. In fact that was the beginning of a formation of a new world. Its reformation took four-long months and thanks to Finnish-born sculptor Eino for his great efforts.

The artwork is created to set a living example of the fragility of earth before the coming generation. Since last June Eino was fully engrossed in the creation of this masterpiece but now he has declared that he is giving final touches to it. The well-searched name “Spaceship Earth” was given by Eino to respect environmentalist David Brower, a leader of the Sierra Club. The picturesque creation offers a bronze figure of Brower footing the summit of the globe. The instigator of California-based Power Bar dropped $1million for the sculpture.

While the cause of its distortion was pointed towards insufficient bonding agent but Eino suspected it to be the hooligans trick. Later, the sculpture underwent examination and it was concluded that it is a “mechanical-induced failure.” The design of featured above “Earth” is bit different as it carries more than 80 pieces of blue quartzite from Brazil along with 2,400 bronze pieces.

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Jeweled clutches look so elegant and exclusive. They are in dominant trend these days. And when it comes to parties, you obviously have to display your opulent style. These jeweled clutches are so beautifully adorned that they will definitely become the object of envy for others.

Just have a look at these elite clutches:

Featured above the designer product by Devi Kroell is an incredible one. I just adore it. It is worth $1890, but its exclusivity speaks for itself.

This red-hot clutch by Leiber is very appealing. The price is still more attractive. You can make it yours for $2,495.

How do you find this one by Burbery worth $1255? I am sure that you like it. Anyways, I just love the design.
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Obviously, it is amazing! I can not resist myself from writing and imagining about it. The furniture is dusted with diamonds! It is very elegant and very elite. Flatlift has the credit of producing this expensive furniture to grace your surroundings. Can you imagine how much diamond dust has gone into the making? It is 50 carats. I was flabbergasted.
 
The pop-up unit for the TV is made of luxurious media sideboard alongside a substantial German plank which is around 80 years old. The layers of high gloss are finely included with the diamond dust to give the furniture a sumptuous appearance. The bar drawer on the left has the lift system and the bar opens with pressing a single button.
The flatlift pop-up platinum is beautifully organized in the centre. This 42″ Hitachi Full HD Flatscreen pops up with another button. The glossed plate of wood that you see gives a covert look to the internal facet of the furniture. I am really tempted. It is truly elite!

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Art gets manifested in any form. It has no definitions or boundaries. The designer ceramic tiles by the JuJu Design Party are absolutely stunning and exclusive. The emphasis of the designers is on innovation and exquisiteness. Sometimes, the whole idea seems to be ridiculous when you listen about it, but turns out to be a wonderful concept when you actually witness it. This is exactly the thing that happened to me. I heard the concept of these artful tiles, but was not much impressed. To my surprise, when I actually encountered it, the product was simply extra-ordinary. It is a product for home furnishing which will definitely give the place a very trendy and unusual look.

The fanciful tiles give the appearance of a joyous mishap. It is as if the designers Maija Puoskari as well as Tuukka Tujula have just made the tile and a dog passes over it and leaves its foot prints on the tiles. Lovely accident…isn’t it? And, the hard ceramic quickly turns into soft and white snow. I really adore the style. What do you think about it?

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It really sounds a bit bizarre to design a butt-shaped ashtray. I don’t know what motivated the designer and producer of this cigarette extinguisher to give it such an awful shape. Is it trying to symbolize something related to sex…or what, I really have no clues. What do you think it could mean? Anyways, the idea has actually been somewhat new, something that has never been thought of before. So, I think that we should acknowledge the innovative idea, but it could actually have been made better than what it is right now.

I feel that the butt-hole which is made for extinguishing the cigarette is extremely dissipated. It is made to accommodate a cigarette and extinguish it. It is obviously made for the elite society. But, would you ever muster up the courage to place it at you workplace or in your drawing-room? I don’t think so…

May be, the producer is aiming at discouraging cigarette smoking by producing such a depraved extinguisher. But, let’s make it a point to think of morality before even thinking of making such products, even if they are for fun.

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When the talk about modern business vicinity of Paris is on, one cannot afford to miss La Défense quarter. The place is occupied with contemporary master works. Featured above is “Le pouce” (the thumb), an unbeatable artistic creation by a renowned French sculptor César Baldaccini. Designed in 1965, this sculpture weighs 18 tonnes and is 12-meter high. Lately, one of three creations that was owned by a private collector went for auction and generated a sum of 1,219 million euros ($1,731,411,136). This is the highest amount paid for Cesar’s work till date and now the third ‘Pouce’ is owned by the city of Seoul.

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The news was artwork of Rude Lord by Banksy, English graffiti artist is anticipated to fetch $405,800 at a scheduled auction. The total bulk of ten graffiti original artwork to be auctioned by Banksy is expected to fetch up to $600,000 on 24 October and includes an image of Lenin on roller skates identified as “Who Put the Revolution on Ice?” along with an elephant carrying a large bomb titled as “Heavy Weaponry.”

The creation expected to top the charts by inviting bids as high as $120,000 is “Avon and Somerset Constabulary,” depicting two police officers peeking through binoculars. Also, as part of the auction is a screen print titled “Di Faced Tenners,” (featured above) screening numerous 10-pound notes featuring Princess Diana and not Queen Elizabeth II.

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Even in your wildest thought, can a dictionary ever cost $24,000- $30,000? Well, it is the anticipated price of the Oxford desk dictionary and Thesaurus and nails by Khalil Rabah. It would be available at the “Arts of the Islamic World,” scheduled to happen at Sotheby’s Auction house on 24 October.

Other precious artwork expected at the exhibition include creation by Iranian artists viz. “Heech” by Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli, “Floating Hexagon” by Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian, also highlighting artworks entitled “Oo Bakhshandeh Ast” by Mohammad Ehsani and “Bad Luck” by Mostafa Dashti, Mughal gem-set jade hilted dagger and bronze lion-form incense burner from Khurasan .

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the hot-venue to view the artistic creation at the exhibition of “The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820.” The exhibition would host a matching display of 25 colonial objects on long-term loan from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. The exhibition would continue till 28 October. This is for the first time that a long-term loan to a US museum of Spanish colonial art from New York and Caracas-based colección has been made. The collection includes decorative arts, silverwork, carved ivories and paintings.

Featured above is a water heater with internal brazier, a silver, cast, repousse, and chased work, possibly from Lima, Peru. It measures 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches and its price information is not revealed. Other displayed painting is the 18th Century oil painting “The Virgin and Christ Child.”

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