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.

Other accessories available for auction include a floral gold-tone metal and crystal stone necklace from 1990 that may fetch $1000-$1500, a hammered gilt-metal “ethnic” necklace from the 1970’s for $600-$800. Currently in fine form, the expected price might seem cheap but the low cost is because of reason they aren’t new designs. Other elegant collection making up to the auction included designer wears from Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix, Balenciaga & Gianni Versace.

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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

Born a child to a carpenter father in Yorkshire, Chippendale success is due to his potential of not restricting himself to furniture-making and goes a level ahead in advising his clients on soft furnishings and shades to be tinted with. You may find most of the creations bathed in mahogany for simple reason that it is his favorite wood.

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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.

With no information about the mileage this pristine 1954 Phantom IV H.J. Mulliner Limousine gives, it offers a room and a sunroof in the back. Elegant! The car bearing a Chassis No. 4BP7 is demanding a price of £395,000 can house a 4 bottle drinks cabinet, two for Gin and two for Scotch.

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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.

The exhibited collection include a pear-shaped 38-carat diamond estimated at up to £2.2 million, a ruby and diamond necklace by Van Cleef and Arpels expected to fetch £40,000, a rare Buddha by Carl Fabergé that was positioned on Onassis’s yacht likely to generate £250,000 to £350,000 plus a 14.79 carat diamond ring by Harry Winston worthy to realize £500,000-£700,000.

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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.

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.

Calling it an imperative piece of legendary history, the proud owner of the desk and chair Tom Higgins (49) is all set to install this precious piece of furniture in his Wicklow, southeast Ireland home. The imprinted words on bronze plaque desk reads: “This desk was the property of Charles Dickens and was in use by him at Gadshill when he died….” The set hails from Dickens’s family before it was ultimately gifted to Great Ormond Street Hospital, so that it can generate money by selling it off.

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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.

Folks, it can be seen as the first incursion into the embryonic Egyptpunk DIY association. If you haven’t realized its worth until now, then the fact that 200 hours of manual labor have been invested on its craftsmanship says a lot for the creation of this fine specimen!

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You hunt for something sporty may end here if you have enough dough to spill over or rather invest. The opportunity is to ink a neat deal with the Porsche driven by Steve McQueen in the Hollywood flick Le Mans. It would be up for auction at Bonhams & Butterfield in the US as a part of its Exceptional Motorcars and Automobili sale. The anticipated price that this coupe may fetch is $2 million.

For that amount, you would own the 1969-70 Porsche 908/2 Spyder that is a 350bhp, 3.0-litre flat-eight air-cooled speedster with a fiberglass body, tubular aluminum space frame and a car capable of hitting 200mph+. Besides driving it in Le Mans, McQueen also took a ride over it in the 1970 Sebring 12 Hours race. If you are making up your mind to possess it then auction is still 2.5 months away, so you can start saving now.

Auction date: 15 August

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Measuring 51/2in high, this gold cup features two alike female faces facing opposite directions with their foreheads decked up with a snake motif. During his childhood, John Webber used to feel scared on the very glimpse of this cup. In early 40’s, John inherited the cup from his grandfather William Sparks in Taunton. Thinking it to be made up of a brass or bronze, Webber deserted it in a container and looked at it only lately while shifting house.

Then he provided this cup to the British Museum where connoisseurs identified its age and the fact that it is designed using one piece of gold. Coming month, it would be up for auction at an anticipated price of $78,000-$150,000.

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An exceptional walnut table that was salvaged from a skip lately generated sales of £40,000 at an auction organized by Shrewsbury-based auctioneers. Auction house together with the owners of the flap-top table (a family from Powys), were pleased with the value fetched by the lot. Designed and developed by a 19th century architect-designer Edward William Godwin, the table was acknowledged by Jeremy Lamond from Halls while making a visit to a house in the Welshpool area in March. After the contestation between three telephone bidders, it was finally procured by an expert dealer from London.

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