Articles in the Auctions Category
Posted in Auctions, Designer, Furniture on 9 August 2008
Lately, a change of taste is being witnessed in the likings of the filthy-rich or those belonging to elite section of society. Against their routine thought of exhibiting their riches over walls by hanging valuable art, now they wish to sit on it. And boosting high this spirit stands the Russian oligarch and Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich. Respecting this new art discipline, they seem to have lost their heart to a creation of something christened as “functional sculpture”. Designed and developed by architects and artists, the demand for this furniture item can well be calculated during its inviting visibility at the first auction dedicated exclusively to modern design scheduled at Christie’s this autumn.
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 30 July 2008
If you are blessed with fortune and have serious passion for Star Wars then here is a treat for you. Also, your hidden obsession for antique models can now find its way here. News is eBay would be scheduling an auction of one of four original T.I.E. Fighter models used while filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. If you are missing on the origin of the Fighter then it is the one that was attentively crashed with Darth Vader and permitted Luke to blow up the Death Star, assembled from resin and cannibalized parts picked from numerous model kits. They say auction won’t authoritatively commence until 1 August but if wish to be the first one to bid for it and partcipate actively in it then go ahead and mark a starting bid of $170,000. Yes, you heard it right…. $170 K…. pinch yourself.
Posted in Antique, Apparels, Auctions on 30 July 2008
Aptly said: “Old is Gold.” After a never-ending saga about Vintage cars, it’s turn for vintage Jeans. We all love to live in present with the reveries of past and with a great hope for future. Right?? Neatorama lately scanned into ebay and came out with an inviting piece of news for brand-addicted Gen X. Pictured above is a pair of vintage jeans that says it all. This aged pair of LEVI’S jeans is over 100-years old and was picked from a mine located in the Rand Mining District, on the Mojave Desert, California. Donned in candle wax melted from the candles used by miners then to beam the burrow they was operational in, the jeans was found along with an ancient paper bag bearing the name of a mercantile store that was open between 1895 and 1898 in the town or Randsburg.
Posted in Auctions, Gadgets, Music on 25 July 2008
Jimi Hendrix’s 1965 Fender Stratocaster that was set ablaze at London’s Finsbury Astoria in 1967 during a concert is now all set to go under hammer on 4 September with additional momentous objet d’art from accessories across the world. The guitar burnt by Jimi Hendrix is likely to turn into the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. This is the very instrument that Hendrix set fire to at the London Astoria in 1967 and is anticipated to fetch around £500,000. Jimi is known for setting fire to guitars almost three times in London.
Via Telegraph
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.
