Ferrari has been busy raising pulses, releasing its 599XX racecar last month (derived from the 599) while simultaneously debuting the 599 GTO as the brand’s fastest production car. This is a luxury car company that is difficult to keep up with this year! But wait, last week they also unleashed the Formula Rossa roller coaster. Yes, a Ferrari roller coaster! My adrenaline is already pumping.
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Chicago has been evolving over the last few decades turning itself into a major player on the global culinary scene. Every month, “celebrity chefs” are debuting the next big thing for Chicago food lovers. Many of the newer restaurants are using some of the most advanced cooking techniques available in restaurant kitchens all over the world. With all of these new cutting edge restaurants planting themselves throughout the city, Chicago’s Mid-western diners still want a good old- fashioned meat and potatoes meal on occasion. 
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A couple of weeks ago the Shanghai 2010 World Exhibition opened up, and will continue for a span of 184 days. This is a luxury event of massive proportions, offering up 253 pavilions from 192 countries. This makes it the world’s first developing country to host a World fair, which en
ded up being the largest and most expensive one ever, at an estimated $48 billion to host.
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It seems that Microsoft co-founder and former Charter Communications chairman Paul Allen is looking to unload his super yacht, “Tatoosh”, for the bargain price of about $162 million bucks.
This super luxe super yacht has a bit of an intriguing history. It was originally built for mobile phone mogul Craig McCaw at Rendsburg in Deutschland by Nobiskrug, and completed in 2000. It was designed and built by Kusch Yachts.
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For those of you who have been following the case of Florida attorney Scott Rothstein’s ponzi scheme, the latest is the auction that will be held to sell his fleet of luxury cars and yachts. Might I mention that the inventory is quite shocking, in fact, it is jaw-dropping.
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Are you a fan of “The Amazing Race”? Do you like to go fast? Let me introduce you to the “Fireball Run”, a 9-day invitational interactive game spanning 18 cities and 3,500 miles!
The Fireball Run is part rally, part game and part race. This interactive event essentially transforms the United States into a game board, spanning from Nevada to Minnesota, and the teams are the game pawns!
The rules are fun-in order for the teams to advance, they must accomplish missions, and solve the clues in order to navigate the route earning points (think reality shows and games).
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One anonymous phone bidder’s passion for Picasso set them back a staggering $106 million, in about 9 minutes flat. The auction took place at Christie’s in New York, and the Picasso piece was the sought-after oil painting, “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur” (Nude Green Leaves and Bust).
This hefty sum ($106,482,500 to be precise), takes the new record for highest price paid for a piece of art. The previous record was set back in February, at Sotheby’s in London, when Giacometti’s “Walking Man
I” went for an astounding $104.3 million. Rumors are circulating that the very same reclusive billionaire art collector purchased both pieces.
Expensive does not even begin to describe this hobby! Hey, for the price of those two paintings, this art collector could have purchased a brand-spanking new fire red Ferrari F430 Spider, and likely gotten more enjoyment out of it. They could have invested in a number of luxury and exotic cars for that sum, like a Lamborghini Gallardo, or Aston Martin Vantage…well, everyone has their passion I suppose.
The prestigious Picasso painting measures an unobtrusive 5 feet by 4 feet, depicting one of his many mistresses, Marie-Therese Walter in a reclined position and nude. Picasso himself is said to be in the background. The piece was painted in 1932, in just one day, and is considered to represent a turning point for the famed artist.
It is unknown if any other artist has brought in that much money on a piece that consumed only one day of their time. I would consider that a good day’s work. I am curious if the piece will now go back into hiding, or if the new owner (whoever it is) will be sharing it with others. It really is a remarkable piece, and I feel it should be shared, yet for the price the new owner paid for it, they are free to do whatever they please with it.
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Is it me, or do luxury cars and antique luxury cars keep getting more expensive? Exotic and luxury cars represent a market that consistently surprises, like with the recent sale of a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, for a staggering $30-$40 million.
While the auction house and broker, Gooding & Company is mum on the matter, reports place the transaction for the antique Bugatti between $30-$40 million. I am searching the Rolodex in my brain for a car that has sold for more. If reports are accurate, this buries the previous record of the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa last year.
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The main distinction between a luxury yacht and a superyacht is of course, the pricetag. True to form, the superyacht Alfa Nero has hit the market at a staggering $190 million.
This is a 269-foot Oceanco superyacht, and is listed by Edminston & Co. The elegance begins with the fact that this luxury vessel was named for Roman emperor Nero. She was ranked #43 in Boat International’s list of the world’s 100 largest yachts in February of 2009, and is Lloyds classed and MCA compliant. Yes, it would certainly seem this is a superyacht of stature!
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No, that was not a typo in the headline; there is actually a stamp worth an estimated $2.3 million dollars or more! It is the Treskilling Yellow, printed in Sweden in 1855, and was interestingly enough the result of a printing error.
Indeed. It seems the story goes that rather than printing the three-skilling stamp on green stock, it was printed on yellow/orange stock paper. It wasn’t until 1970 that the authenticity of this imposter was questioned by the Swedish Postal Museum, who then found it to be genuine. Only one known copy of the “Treskilling Yellow” postage stamp exists, making it the most expensive stamp in the world.
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