Another expensive limited-edition product, another auction, another designer, another blog post for we bloggers. Designed by Marc Newson, counted 10 Black Hole Table tables are produced demanding worthy attention. Besides maintaining its exquisite appeal, it is the usage of pricey material that has enabled it to make up to headlines. The body of this black hole table is structured using the most expensive carbon fiber. Doing away with the ordinary visibility of four-legged table, this ultra contemporary table features three legs with a bizarre triangular base that is enough to break heads.

One of these tables would be available for auction on 24 April at Howick Place, London. Right on the heels of its name, the table is all set to dig a huge hole as it is anticipated to fetch $300,000 to $400,000.

I don’t care if Kenny Chesney happens to make up to your fans list or no but for sure the country singer’s lately listed Malibu crib is worth watching. Located on a con overshadowing Santa Monica Bay, the compound features 5 bedrooms, 5 baths and offers spectacular visions of Malibu Point and Catalina Island. Amongst other remarkable opulent facilities, the estate include a 3,000 bottle temperature-controlled wine cellar, an al fresco oven and barbeque, two disengaged guesthouses, La Costa Beach rights, and a tennis association.

Chesney inked this deal in February for $7.4 million, which is now up for sale on a listed price for $7.95 million.

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Gemesis, a company engaged in the business of selling “cultured” diamonds has witnessed a surge in its growth in the past few years. Their designers are neck deep into experimenting with tinted stones. Whilst last year designer Taryn Rose designed a line of jewelry using Gemesis stones, today Florida-based designer Lee Havens is exhibiting a striking yellow cultured diamond necklace at his Palm Beach shop. Retailed at $500,000, the necklace is created by Gemesis and features 72 stones assuring 64 carats.

Almost 10% of the sales generation would be contributed to benefit The Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) together with other pieces designed by Gemesis viz. rings and pendants ranging from $20,000-$40,000.

Via Luxist

Update: Umm Kulthoum’s antique necklace fetched $1.3 mn, almost 10 times of its pre-estimated sales amount at Christie’s auction house.
An antique necklace embedded with around 1,888 pearls, a pricey possession of Egyptian Singer Umm Kulthoum is all set to go under hammer in Dubai on 29 April. The necklace was once gifted to Kultham by Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late president of the United Arab Emirates and is anticipated to fetch $80,000-$120,000 during the Jewels and Watches auction in Dubai.

Christie’s spokeswoman Clare Roberts said Umm Kulthoum received this nine-row necklace from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in 1970s. Born in 1904, Umm learnt singing from her father and debuted her first footage in the mid-1920s and by 1930s; she reached the top of Cairo’s composition panorama.

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“Sunset over the Atlas Mountains,” a circa 1935 oil painting by Winston Churchill is all set to go under hammer during Bonhams New York auction in 23 April. This is one painting that Winston adored so much that he invited President Franklin D. Roosevelt to see it even after years later. This vivacious countryside depicting Churchill’s balcony at the Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech is anticipated to fetch $600,000. Churchill invited Roosevelt to travel with him to Marrakech after a conference in Casablanca in 1943 so he could experience the beautiful view for himself.

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Constructed in 1917, Waterfront Property based in old HP is markedly exceptional. Spread over 7,162 sq.ft, this Italian villa is erected on enchanted Lakeside Dr. and orders a splendid comprehensive vision of Exall Lake. Decorated with metaphorical millwork, limestone flooring and gorgeous ironwork, this Medici manor features a 2-story foyer, front gallery, superb formals, parlor, solarium, three outsized bedrooms well equipped with fireplace, 3.2 bathrooms, paneled study with rightly fitted wine room & wet bar, chef’s kitchen, spacious breakfast area and many more facilities. The beauty of this estate is inviting eyeballs as it is available for sale at $9,999,000.

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Wine patrons can calm down their fetish need by visiting Bonhams London headquarters on 30 April. News is Bonhams auction house would be displaying the atypical vintages right from the vault of the celebrated Mirabelle restaurant located in London. Around 300 lots of wine from the Michelin based restaurant will be accessible, including sparkling wines viz. Dom Pérignon Oenothéque, Krug Collection, Clos des Papes, Veuve Clicquot, and esteemed old bottles of First Growths from Latour 1916. The Mirabelle cellar variety of spirits up for bidding would roughly count to be more than $200,000.

The Mirabelle was habitually a sure-shot destination for top names viz. Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Vivien Leigh and noticeably, there was a table was reserved for royalty. Those amongst you are fervent vintage wine collector; the London-based Bonhams is inviting you to enjoy the spree with them.

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Christie’s International is hoping to take deep breaths as it is focusing into the antique English furniture market by holding an evening sale of 12 “masterpieces” in London on 18 June. The discretely segmented selection that follows Christie’s evening sale of the anthology of the late Simon Sainsbury, is anticipated to fetch 10 million pounds ($19.7 million). The sale exhibits five works by Thomas Chippendale, the renowned English cabinetmakers.

Chippendale’s Kenure Cabinet from 1750s, an affluently stamped piece in a Chinese “fantasy” style is illustrated as the “finest example of his craft to ever appear at auction” by the auction house.

Since 1964, it was not seen in the market and news it this time at Christie’s it may generate a sale of record 2.5 million pounds to 4 million pounds ($3.9-$7.8 million) on 18 June.

Via Bloomberg

An elite painting by 20th Century French artist Fernand Leger is all set to undergo a hammer for $45 million at New York based Sotheby’s impressionist sale scheduled for 7 May. “Etude pour La Femme en Bleu” (1912-13) is a brew of arithmetical shapes hued in blue and white with intonations of pale yellow, red and black. The canvas dates back to the family compilation of German collector Hermann Lange, who purchased it from Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf in Berlin in 1920s. If this painting happened to fall near the expected sale i.e. $35-$45 million, then it would top the lot of the evening sale that would in total count to be $284 million. Leger’s earlier record was set in 2003 when his 1914 painting fetched him $22.4 million at Christie’s International in New York.

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Folks, am back with an exciting piece of news for you. Whilst days back I told you about the prestigious private dagger owned by Shah Jahan, all set to go under hammer. And today the auctioned finally happened and the bid process finally ended with the highest bid of 1.7 million pounds made by an anonymous buyer.