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While Marc Newson’s luxurious Lockheed Lounge chaise had a pre-sale estimate of between £500,000 and £700,000 at Christie’s, it managed to sell for 1.1 million pounds ($1.6 million), which is an auction record for a piece of contemporary design...
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With the recession hitting wealthy collectors over the last year, the auction houses have faced one of their toughest seasons in years. This year, we saw auctions where...
made popular May 21 2009
Christie’s Latin American Sale in New York on May 28 and 29 is set to feature rare and iconic masterpieces from the 17th century colonial art to contemporary...
made popular May 14 2009
An armchair, which was previously expected to sell for around £3 million at Christie’s in Paris, has been auctioned off for a whopping £19.4 million (nearly $28...
made popular Feb 26 2009
What credit crunch? At Christie’s in Central London, the Wittelsbach diamond became the most expensive stone or piece of jewelry ever sold at an auction. Back in...
made popular Dec 11 2008
Even if it means revealing yourself only in the boudoir, still, the elegance of lingerie fashion will never linger. As a symbol of feminine beauty, the de luxe Italian...
made popular Sep 23 2008
A sale of a painting by the late Indian painter Francis Newton Souza has set a record for an Indian work of art.
Souza’s 1955 work, Birth, was sold for...
made popular Jun 17 2008
We have already seen flawless diamonds going under the hammer for big bucks, including the flawless blue diamond and the largest D-color flawless diamond. If one of you...
made popular Feb 21 2008
If uniqueness is a passion and being amid antiquity a dream, then here I will introduce you to something that will take you back into the era when the largest mammal to...
made popular Jan 25 2008
I have already listed Francis Bacon’s Bullfight painting and his self portrait in my list of top 10 most hyped auction sales of 2007. Now, a three-part painting...
made popular Jan 8 2008
Another year has come and gone, and we’re both sad and glad to see it go. Last year, a range of historical, unique, and artistic creations were up for auction and...
made popular Jan 2 2008
Last Saturday was a great day for the collectors of distilled spirits. Christie’s hosted the first spirits auction in New York since prohibition. Some of the rare...
made popular Dec 11 2007
This Wednesday, the Christie’s shall witness an auction of the works of some legendry artists, like Charles Blackman, Frederick McCubbin and Sidney Nolan, in the...
made popular Dec 10 2007
On the 27 November, the ‘Futuro’, a white plastic house resembling a flying saucer, will be auctioned in Paris, at the Christie’s. It was created by...
made popular Nov 26 2007
A model from Christie’s in Geneva has on her shoulder an 18 carat gold, enamel and black onyx automaton mouse. It’s just one of the masterpieces of gold...
made popular Nov 8 2007
Tuesday night’s auction at the Christie’s ended with overall sales of $395 million (€271 million), which is the second highest ever achieved in fine...
made popular Nov 7 2007
Do you want to own a house with a history? Renowned Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs will be part of Christie’s high-profile evening sale of...
made popular Nov 1 2007
A 13th century Quran has been sold for a record price at the Christie’s auction house on Tuesday. This copy of Quran, written in 1203, is believed to be the...
made popular Oct 24 2007
At the Christie’s International’s Russian winter auction next month, a previously unrecorded Faberge egg, which was an engagement gift to Baron Edouard de...
made popular Oct 5 2007
Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat are usually the focus at all the superstar-focused auctions. But, at the Christie’s recent Post War and Contemporary Art...
made popular Sep 20 2007
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Commissioned by Jaeger LeCoultre, the Atmos 561 is a brand new luxury clock created by designer Marc Newson that reinterprets the classic Atmos clock in a totally...
made popular Jul 28 2008
Designer Marc Newson has created just ten pieces of the Black Hole Table and has done it with good reason. One reason is exclusivity and the other is the use of the...
made popular Apr 23 2008
This unique bookshelf made of white Carrara marble is part of the Gargosian Gallery. Resembling a sponge with porous holes, the Voronoi marble bookcase is designed by...
made popular Jan 24 2008
Marc Newson, an Australian born innovative designer, selected as one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2005, is again in news for...
made popular Sep 11 2007
It looks like we are to witness a tough design competition in the space tourism industry. While Richard Branson had renowned Philippe Starck for his lavish Virgin...
made popular Jun 26 2007
Diamonds are called as a woman’s best friend and designer Marc Newson seems to have realized it as he used numerous diamonds and sapphires to create a necklace...
made popular Jul 3 2009
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