Articles in the Auctions Category
Posted in Auctions, Elite Find of the Day on 17 July 2008
For attending a nature’s call, we all make efforts to install the personality toilets starting from designer, geeky and gilded one. But what about those installed at public places and are in clear juxtaposition to one reached at eBay, demanding a whooping sum of $89,000 each. The sophisticated public toilet features graffiti, impact-resistant stalls, programmed doors, faucets, dryers, soap dispensers, and also an integrated emergency 9-1-1 button. It is the result of initiative taken by Seattle officials to set right their gaffe (that’s what they feel) of having spent $5 million of city’s cash on self-cleaning community toilets around 5 years ago.
Posted in Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Gold, News, Worlds Most Expensive on 16 July 2008
Yes, you heard it right! And the courtesy for such a whopping price tag of Damas-designed Kohl magazine, ITP Lifestyle magazine goes to its bejeweled cover page featuring Katrina Kaif captured by celebrity photographer Avinash Gowariker! Targeting Asian women, the face of the magazine comes dipped in 91 grams of gold and festooned with 622 diamonds. Thanks to the alliance with an established UAE-based jeweler Damas that the magazine is valued at more than $10,000 and is anticipated to undergo auction for the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre in October 2008. The gold-slapped cover of Kohl respects Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif, who was voted the Sexiest Woman by a famous international magazine.
Posted in Auctions, Automobile, Car on 13 July 2008
International fine art auction house Bonhams lately inked a new world record for sales generation of Jaguar motor car during an auction. The 1955 Jaguar D-Type Sports Racing Car ‘XKD509′ went to an anonymous British buyer for a monstrous cost of £2,201,500 ($4.4 million). The 3.4-litre coupe model claims to be the first Jaguar D-Type that underwent production in 1955 (costing £2,500 then) and sports an original subframe, tub and 3.4-liter competition engine.
Posted in Art, Auctions, Paintings, Worlds Most Expensive on 10 July 2008
Setting a new record for the category of world’s most expensive living female artist is a South African born artist Marlene Dumas. And this is made possible via her painting, popularly known as “The Visitor,†that generated sales of £3.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction. The painting was picked up by the New York private dealer Nancy Whyte during Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale scheduled on 1 July. The sales figure overshadowed Dumas’ preceding testimony of £1.8 million marked in February 2005.
Posted in Auctions, Automobile on 5 July 2008
Two of the classic models of Jaguar’s coupe are anticipated to fetch up to £6 million in an auction. One developed in 1960, Jaguar E2A symbolizing the omitted connection between the iconic D-Type and E-Type sculpts is allocated to be sold off in California next month with an anticipation to generate sales of £3.5 million (4.44 million euro/ $7 million). And the other closer to home a two-seater sports racing D-Type would be featured on 11 July during Goodwood Festival of Speed sale in Sussex.
Posted in Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Crystals, Designer, Entertainment, Events, Gaming, Shopping, Swarovski on 28 June 2008
It seems the industry moguls cannot settle down at anything ordinary and hence has religiously charted out their own way to celebrate event. The case in point is Scrabble’s 60th Anniversary that got enough applause from celebrities also. The Diamond Anniversary Edition game board is hand crafted and sports bling via its gleaming 30,000 Swarovski crystals. Every radiant sparkler was scrupulously elected to bout the scrape board’s signature shades. Its display plate is signed by Jimmy Kimmel, Skeet Ulrich, Seth Green, Aisha Tyler and Daniel Kellison who were presented at the Scrabble “Under the Stars eventâ€. If it catches your interest then free feel to install it into your entertainment corner by being the proud holder of this elite game board that demands an estimated bid of $20,000 at an auction at Clothesoffourback.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile on 27 June 2008
On 29 June, Bonhams would be auctioning off its astonishing compilation of classic bikes valued around $2 million at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. The collection details the largest single-owner collection of motorbikes ever reached the auction block, all 300 machines coming from the Professor Fritz Ehn Motorcycle Museum in Austria. The two wickedly fast and attention-inviting models include British-made Vincents: the 1955 998cc Black Prince and a 1952 998cc Black Shadow anticipated to fetch $56,000-$64,000 and $44,000 - $56,000 respectively.
Posted in Apparels, Auctions, Designer, Diamond, Elite Find of the Day on 20 June 2008
Another auction for charity! News is Tony Soprano’s boxers; black leather jacket, tan bathrobe and velour tracksuit falling amongst the old-fashioned mobster’s clothes are set to be auction at Christie’s International on 25 June in New York. James Gandolfini, who enacted the lethal yet oddly engaging New Jersey hooligan in “The Sopranos,” has plans to sell off 25 lots of clothing his character wore on the TV series that ended in June 2007. The profits, anticipated around $36,500 hence would be donated to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a Jacksonville, Florida-based nonprofit that aids injured soldiers. As a part of auction comes black leather Harley Davidson motorcycle jacket owned by Elvis Presley sporting Elvis’ initials EP stitched on the inside breast along with his diamond encrusted “Chief Deputy, Shelby County, Tennessee” badge. The jacket is expected to sell for $2,000 on 25 June at Christie’s.
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Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile, Car on 19 June 2008
A striking 1961 Bentley S2 once belonging to actor Sean Connery would reach the Bonhams’ auction house in England coming Saturday. The coupe is up for auction as a part of a Bonhams’ Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Select Pre-War Motor Cars and Automobilia Sale during the Rolls-Royce Enthusiast’s Club’s Annual Rally at historic Kelmarsh Hall near Northampton. The grand S2 model saloon (featured above) refined in two-tone Shell Grey/Tudor Grey with harmonizing red leather inside is anticipated at generate $24,000-$30,000.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Fashion on 17 June 2008
Whist 1 June 2008 marked a gloomy day for the fashion industry and proved to be a weighted loss for fashionistas as French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s passed away. A month after, the fashion house planned an auction at Christie’s on 2 July. The auction collectibles include seven pieces of Saint Laurent’s attire & jewels featuring nearly every decade of his career. Popularly known as a style-setter, he was the most influential designer of the 20th century and his designer creations details pop-art print mini dresses, peasant skirts and graceful pantsuits that are appreciated till date. To be specific, the collection includes a 1958 Cocktail dress designed for Dior & a 1970 Rive Gauche camel cable knit sweater spruced in fox fur alike to the one that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore bearing a pre-sale estimate of $250-$400. A gray pink tulle twilight dress with tinny pink and silver embroidery, designed for Dior in 1958 is anticipated to generate a sum of about $1000-$1500.
