Posted in Art, Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Display, Furniture, Luxury on 8 September 2009
Watch genius Severin Wunderman indeed lived life king size. After all he is the man who built the Gucci watch brand. His eight-bedroom townhouse in the Chelsea part of London grabbed headlines last year. And haven’t we heard so much about his Corum and other interesting images that he possessed. Come September 30, and his collection of furniture, paintings and several obejects from his house will go on sale at Bonhams London.
All this is being done for a good cause as the proceeds will be directed to the Severin Wunderman Family Foundation that supports research on incurable diseases.
Posted in Auctions, Automobile, Car, Luxury Car on 16 August 2009
Vintage cars are one of the few things that can demand any price and get it too. In fact, many a times there is a tough call deciding which higher price option to opt for! This time around, Bonham’s auction house is conducting its inaugural annual “Weekend de l’Excellence Automobile” in Reims on September 26. And we are told that a very exclusive 1912 model from Bugatti will be the high point of the auto affair.
The car has had the privilege of Ettore Bugatti as one its drivers at Le Mans and the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb. Other esteemed owners of this classic car also include the Duke of Bavaria and the UK-based classic car engineer Nigel Arnold-Forster. Relying on that very fact it has quoted a price of $3.4 million at the auction.
Posted in Auctions, Luxury on 15 July 2009
Visiting the moon and finding out what kind of cheese it is made from is every child’s dream. Growing up, one realises how unlikely it is that that dream would ever come true and searches for more realistic ways to make their astronomer dream come true.
The Bonhams Space Sale offers an opportunity for all of us to make our dreams come true by getting a little closer to the Moon. This isn’t accomplished by giving us our own spacesuit and a ticket to the Moon but the Space Sale will auction off pieces of lunar history on the 16th of July this year. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Bonhams will be auctioning items that were possessions of astronauts or related to lunar missions in some way.
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 7 July 2009
The historic landing on moon and that famous moment when the stripes and stars unfurled on lunar surface is an image that is etched in the memory of humanity (thanks largely to television, which played it over and over). It seems now that there are more than a few takers for some of the artifacts and items that travelled on the Apollo 11 to accomplish that monumental feat. Most of these collectibles will go under the hammer very shortly and the expected price for these is sure to have many interested in the bidding.
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Posted in Luxury on 26 June 2009
Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the most illustrious celebrations of motoring in the entire United Kingdom. Bonhams has used this occasion to announce an outstanding collection of cars. There would be a slew of luxury racing cars which no one can actually resist. Speed and racing has always been the symbol of the upwardly mobile.
It includes a period-built, and race-prepared competition car called the 1965 Ford GT40 Endurance Racing Coupe. Other cars being sold there include the 1922 Sunbeam 2-litre Strasbourg Grand Prix Works Racing Car, 1958 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I Drophead Coupe, 1931 Bentley 4-Litre Coupe, 1930 Aston Martin International 2/4 1½-Litre and even a 1973 Ferrari 246 GTS Din.
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 25 May 2009
We really can’t fathom the reason behind this rather unexpected occurrence — is it the recession or are people just going ga ga over owing fossils — but come June 1 and a dinosaur skull is going to be up for sale. Yes, the National History auction at Bohams will be featuring a whole range of fossil specimens that shall even include the rare Tyrannosaurid skull. This skull is one of the only four Alioramus skulls to have been discovered so far.
The estimated cost of this so-called tyrant lizard from the age of dinosaurs lies between $120,000- $140,000. A little bit of dope on the dino tells us that its species was found in the Nemegt Formation, Gobi Desert and Central Asia. Alioramus was slender than the infamous T-rex but with a higher tooth count.
Posted in Auctions, Automobile on 9 December 2008
All right, we know that Ferrari does not make motorbikes. But can that fact stop us from owning a Ferrari motorbike? Don’t worry, we are not talking crazy. The buzz is that a group of custom cycle makers have come up with the machine on two wheels. Yeah, we know that the Maranello-inspired two-wheeler made by Arlen Ness made a lot of news but in all honesty and fairness, the machine was not very practical. After all, wouldn’t we all like a Ferrari bike that is sporty, can be taken out on the regular roads and also sit pretty in one’s garage!
And the icing on the cake is that Ferrari too agrees. Perhaps that is why the mobike in reference bears the official Ferrari chassis number (SF-01M) and comes in the signature red we all know so well. Designed by David Kay Engineering in 1995, this mobike runs on a DOHC engine with a horsepower of 105 at 8,800rpm displacing 900 cc.
Posted in Auctions, Automobile, Fashion on 19 October 2008
Obvious economic sense tell you that this is not the time to be spending more than half a million dollars on a motorbike from the 50’s, but we are all about encouraging you to defy convention. That is exactly why this 1950’s Vincent Black Lightning Motorcycle is such a wonderful buy for all those who love to go bidding on vintage wheels. The bike was originally built to shatter the land speed record for a two wheeler and while it did not manage to accomplish that feet, it might go down as the most expensive bike to go in an auction.
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Posted in Auctions, Jewelry on 24 September 2008
A sapphire-and-diamond brooch once worn by legendary musician Elton John while filming his music videos “I don’t wanna go on with you like that,” is all set to go under hammer this week. Designed like a “J,”the art deco piece worn by John in 1988 is now estimated to generate sales of 12,000-15,000 pounds (US$22,330-27,900) at Bonhams auction house in London on 25 September. The 1930s-era brooch features brilliant-cut and baguette-cut diamonds and oval-cut and circular-cut sapphires. The brooch, on sale this autumn at Bonhams, has an estimate value of 12,000-15,000 pounds (US$22,330-27,900).
Other priceless valuables of the scheduled auction include a De Beers 11.03-carat emerald-cut diamond ring that may generate $593,000.
Via AP
Posted in Auctions, Automobile, Car on 13 July 2008
International fine art auction house Bonhams lately inked a new world record for sales generation of Jaguar motor car during an auction. The 1955 Jaguar D-Type Sports Racing Car ‘XKD509′ went to an anonymous British buyer for a monstrous cost of £2,201,500 ($4.4 million). The 3.4-litre coupe model claims to be the first Jaguar D-Type that underwent production in 1955 (costing £2,500 then) and sports an original subframe, tub and 3.4-liter competition engine.
The auction was scheduled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester on behalf of the Littlewoods Football Pools family. The sales generated have overshadowed the previous record of £1,706,000 marked in 1999.
Via Telegraph/ Bonhams
