The World's Most Expensive Stuff 2010!

[HighestOfHigh]

I will take the car, boat, plane, house, wine, and diamonds to keep any girl happy.

Most Expensive Diamond

Wittelsbach Diamond
Price: $24.3 million

This 35.56-carat, cushion-shaped diamond sold at a Christie's London auction in December 2008. The legendary deep grayish-blue gem from India passed through the hands of many royal families and spent two centuries in the House of Bavaria as the family diamond of the Wittelsbachs, according to Christie’s. It was recently renamed the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond.

 

[Centurion]

My guilty pleasure is this Lecia camera, a M8.2. 10 Megapixel, crazy large sensor, delicate Lecia Optics in a package that produce more stunning images than larger cameras. I hope to afford one sometime in the future.

Price? £4,000
Worth it? Oh yeah

 

[Top Secret]

My guilty pleasure is this Lecia camera, a M8.2. 10 Megapixel, crazy large sensor, delicate Lecia Optics in a package that produce more stunning images than larger cameras. I hope to afford one sometime in the future.

They're really not that expensive anymore, since the release of the M9 and the relative opinion within Leica devotees of not being 'good' enough. Of course, these people are deluded, but it only helps to drive prices down. Around $2500-$3000 could get you an M8 or maybe an M8.2 if you're lucky.

My Leica holy grail would be a black-paint M4. Without doubt the prettiest Leica ever.

I will have one in the future.

 

[JadeVetti]

The chess set. A classic that's never out style, and it will last as a heirloom.

It's always a waste when you over-upgrade techie toys. What will become of the iPhone with a new one around the corner?

 

[HighestOfHigh]

Speaking of cameras...

Most Expensive Camera

Susse Freres daguerreotype camera
Price: $775,000

A daguerreotype camera designed by Frenchman Susse Freres that dates back to 1839 sold at the WestLicht Auction in 2007 for €576,000 ($775,000). It was believed to be the oldest commercially manufactured camera in the world, reported the Most Expensive Journal. Another daguerreotype camera will be auctioned in May and is expected to fetch up to $950,000.

 

[HighestOfHigh]

The World's Most Expensive Bed For Sale

The World's Most Expensive Bed For Sale

So you bought that fabulous multi-million dollar home of your dreams (perhaps maybe one like this?). The question now is how to decorate.

Start with the bedroom — after all, many a rich and famous person on MTV Cribs has admitted, “it’s where the magic happens.” A one-of-a-kind house needs a one-of-a-kind bed…How about one worth more than $6.4 million.

British designer Stuart Hughes has just unveiled his latest ultra-high end and utterly exclusive foray into furniture: the Baldacchino Supreme. In a joint collaboration with Hebanon by Fratelli Basile Interiors of Nocera Superiore Italy, a team of master Italian furniture makers, the Baldacchino Supreme is the world’s new most expensive bed for sale. Only two will be created, each taking 3 months to hand craft upon purchase.


Ensconced in Italian silk curtains, the canopy bed is a decadent vision of creme and gold, carved from chestnut, ash and cherry woods: it’s the type of structure a royal medieval Italian wedding night would welcome.

The headboard is fashioned in capitonnè — that button-punctured fabric pattern harking from Parisian home decor — and can be customized with diamonds upon request (in case you want some bling to go with “the magic”).

The real expense behind this bed however is the sheer amount of gold in use. It’s generously brushed along the borders of the entire structure in the form of gold leaf: 107 kg of solid 24ct gold to be exact. In commodities trading terms, that’s over $5 million worth of gold at current market prices.

The bed may seem like a publicity ploy from the two companies, but surprisingly one order has already been placed — and filled. The inspiration for this entire project came at the behest of a wealthy Italian buyer (who will sadly remain anonymous) looking for an overly indulgent, fabulously decadent bed to call his own. He contacted Hebanon and they in turn contacted Stuart Hughes, who has built a clever brand around bourgeois adaptations of every day items like diamond-encrusted flat screen television sets and multimillion dollar iPhones.

As for the one remaining bed, it’s still available for purchase — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Hughes says these items in general can take “one minute or an eternity to sell.”

With a bed like this, I can’t help but wonder what the wealthy buyers will choose furniture-wise to accompany it. Do you have thoughts on how best to decorate a room housing the world’s most expensive bed?


- The World's Most Expensive Bed For Sale - Yahoo! Shopping

 

[NarutoRamen]

^^That bed better come with never ending supply of chicks.

 

[ateekt]

That's insane yet stressful. Just imagine how many problems of how many people in need can be solved with that sum!!

 

[MoSs]

Oh come now bum-man! I'm sure you wouldn't mind that Diamond iPhone..Lol

I'm good with plastic