Articles tagged with: Antique
Posted in Antique, Exhibitions on 5 July 2008
At elitechoice, we pay worthy homage to all the antique collectibles and following the ritual is here an incense burner that portrays like a church and was designed by some anonymous artist in 10-11th century. News is the burner would be apart of the exhibition ‘Byzantium 330-1453‘ that is scheduled from 25 October 2008- 22 March, 2009 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The display will showcase 340 objects detailing incons, detachable wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels and appealing gold and silver metalwork.
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Posted in Antique, Automobile on 4 July 2008
The Pashley Guv’nor (ignore the dreadful name), handpicked by company to “indicate the revival of our great English bicycle heritage” is a strikingly sleek recreation of company’s ages-old Path Racer Model from the 1930’s. The elegant appeal of the model features a hand-crafted Reynolds 531 diamond frame (in 20.5, 22.5 and 24.5-inch sizes), undisturbed style forks, Brooks B17 Titanium saddle, drop North Road handlebars with fleece grips, a single speed rear wheel, 28-inch gold lined black alloy rims and the tyres on its front and back are very light. Affordable only for uber-rich, the £795 price tag can only convince the rich-you as extravagance doesn’t consider spill over of few extra $$$ but can’t compromise at opulence.
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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.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Furniture on 14 June 2008
Those who are interested in rarely found furniture made by Thomas Chippendale and designed by Robert Adam shall eye Christie’s upcoming auction in London. The head of London-based Christie’s head of the International Furniture Department Robert Copley shares: The 18 June auction will exhibit 12 masterpieces of furniture dating back to 18th century. This collection of English furniture includes five works by Thomas Chippendale detailing The Kenure Cabinet, the Dundas Bookcase and the Dundas Chairs. Whist the Dundas chairs are anticipated to fetch $2.92-$4.87 million and the Kenure Cabinet may generate $4.87-$7.79 million
Posted in Antique, Automobile, Car on 13 June 2008
Don your glasses and read it between the lines as it is not an ordinary model of a coupe but an antique one. Yes, we are here pointing towards Rolls Royce Phantom IV and not the Rolls Royce Phantom VI. The model ‘Rolls Royce of Rolls Royce’ that once belonged to Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II younger sister, Countess of Snowdon is now inviting bids. The grand model of Phantom IV is being touted as the world’s most exclusive Rolls Royce as ages the sedan wasn’t open for public purchase and was sold to the Royalty or a Head of State. The limited edition Rolls Royce was produced in counted 18 models and the one featured here went to Princess Margaret in 1954.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Jewelry, Necklace, Ring on 9 June 2008
Athina Onassis, the heiress once hailed as ‘the richest little girl in the world’, is on a move to auction off her millions of pounds of jewelry that she inherited from her mother Christina. The fortune worth is amounted at £1 billion but her call for auction is the result of her decision that she has no need of what she sees as the glittering paraphernalia of a departed era. The jewelry collection up for auction is anticipated to generate £8 million on 11 June at Christie’s.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Elite Find of the Day, Music on 7 June 2008
Pictured above is an 8ft 11in Model D grand piano that belongs to Sir Elton John (circa 1971) and comes in a burr maple wood finish with virtual cross banding on square tightening legs jointly with toning concert adaptable stool. After its completion in Hamburg on 27 September, 1971; it was shipped to Steinway & Sons in London where Elton John inked a neat deal with it and installed it at his Woodside dwelling in Windsor. Now this antique item has reached the Bonhams auction house and is anticipated to generate sales ranging between £35,000-45,000. It is the same instrument that Elton played for BBC TV’s ‘Top of the Pops’, performing ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ with Kiki Dee in 1976.
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Gold on 5 June 2008
Old is Gold! The substance of the statement is well identified via all antiques that undergo auction. Lately, this has been proved by a 19th century chair and desk on which Charles Dickens wrote “Great Expectations.” Against the pre-estimate amount of auction i.e. between 50,000-80,000 pounds, the furniture piece was picked by a former Irish journalist at Christie’s auction house for 433,000 pounds ($850,000), almost five-times of the expected sales amount.
Posted in Antique, Computer, Designer on 3 June 2008
I wish King Tutankhamen would have been alive today (may be for a while) so that he can take the honor getting buried in this extraordinary PC case mod stimulated by his famed self. Developed and designed using 68 pounds of hand-hewn sandstone tiles, wherein rooted clusters of turquoise, calcite, lapis lazuli, coral and cornelian glitters invite attention. The EgyptMod PC is an offering by Chris Kramer that relies heavily upon the antique Egyptian graphics and is imprinted with obscure hieroglyphs and festooned with phony trinkets to provide it an entire magnificence enjoyed by an ancient ruler.
