It is not very often that people try and design unusual and one-of-a-kind stuff when it comes to sports equipment as they are as a rule supposed to be ‘standard’. Apart from meddling with chess boards and their pieces not many people tend to bother with sports goods or try to bling them up with a sparkle or two. But designer Rirkrit Tiravanija along with Nathalie Karg’s Cumulus Studios wanted to create something more vivid and striking for the sport of Ping Pong and they ended up creating the super shiny and highly polished ‘Limited Edition’ chrome Ping Pong table.
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Gaming fans would love Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing Starfighter ‘Red five’ which is quite functional too. Gaming enthusiasts would know that the Red Five was a legendary fighter jet in which Luke Skywalker flew and led the X-Wings of Red Squadron and destroyed the evil Death Star.

The toy is as close to the real thing as possible for it has been digitally scanned and comes with original resin construction. The accessories, parts, engines and cockpits are so detailed you would mistake it for the real thing you have seen in games. This toy was inspired by the World War II and the model has been engineered and designed by professionals and could be the envy of your friends and neighbours.

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Tom Devenish is an established name in the English furniture industry based in New York. He died in 2002 and had left ample 18th-century antiques (typically furniture and mirror) in his packed, cigar-smoke-occupied shop at 929 Madison Avenue. He was little interested in selling any of his collectible. Earlier he made up to the news on the basis of one oft-told story, perchance mythical, when one fine day Anne Bass, the patron cum collector, rang his bell and Devenish unbolted the door and said: “I don’t deal with blondes” and banged it.

And today he has again reached to the headlines as his entire catalog, one-of-its-kind English furniture collections would be up for auction at Sotheby’s on 24 April. The luminary lots comprise of three impressive japanned bureau cupboards from the 1700s (two in red, one in green), a pair of George II gilded armchairs with eagle-head armrests, an 18th-century Irish side table with a lion mask and a George III semi-elliptical marquetry-inlaid commode that hides a desk.

In total, there are 203 products to be sold and it is anticipated that it will fetch $14- $21 million. The presale analysis starts on 19 April. The top lot, likely at $800,000 to $1.2 million, was Devenish’s favorite: a George II Chippendale style carved mahogany open armchair, from around 1755.

Via NYT