Articles tagged with: lifestyle
Posted in Luxury on 3 July 2009
J. Crew is one of the few things we men can’t resist. Perhaps it has got something to do with the style and ruggedness that go hand in hand. They have been collaborating with every other fashion house or designer to launch new bags, belts and other such accessories.
This time around, they have unveiled a cool Tote in collaboration with the Japanese label Superior Labor. Now one can go to lengths at discussing what this collaboration might imply, especially at a time when luxury goods are finally beginning to hit the hard face of recession. The bags are handmade, distressed and comes with an awesome J. Crew label on it. The bag costs $350 and would go well with casual wear.
Posted in Luxury on 28 June 2009
If you have been a constant watcher of Baywatch, you would know how important timely action really is. Unfortunately, things aren’t so easy for lifeguards and reality is tougher than the glossy images you would see on the TV Show.
Edward Shelton has designed the Amphibian, which is a two part system aimed at helping lifeguards better approach the task of saving human lives at the beach. The design employs the idea of comfortable walking shoes and slip on retractable swim fins. It is aimed at making the lifeguard’s task of walking on the beach and getting into the water and swimming easy.
Posted in Luxury on 27 June 2009
MSC Cruises have launched some unique and elegant cruise lines. They borrow from European charm and Italian chic. They have launched the stylish MSC Splendida which is the eagerly awaited sister of their older MSC fantasia.
Splendida comes with modern technologies and elegant designing which was seen earlier with the Fantasia. The cruise lines are so extravagant that you would find Swarovski crystal staircases, 150 fountains in an Aqua Park, and many such luxuries. It even comes with mini bowling alleys.
Posted in Luxury on 26 June 2009
Kitchens can get awfully boring when the pass a certain period of time after being built. When you need to cook, you would certainly want a place that is invigorating and charming instead of being stuck to something that is ordinary.
If you happen to have the cash and also the plans to get your kitchen refurbished, you should try and get the tiles designed by Ann Sacks. These tiles come with a time-honored, Italian technique called sgraffito. They use clay carved reliefs and each tile is unique on its own. The tiles are grouped under Dahlia or Nautilus, each depicting different patterns.
Posted in Luxury on 24 June 2009
If you are a restaurateur, you would be interested to know more about N2Wine System which is a cool way to store and dispense wine so that it tastes good always. Apparently it is not always that every aged wine tastes good. The moment a wine reaches the age of six months, that’s where it tastes the best. This is what is being told by the makers of N2Wine.
Though I can’t really comment about it as I have always learned that wine always gets better with age, N2Wine maybe the best bet if you are looking for a great way to dispense wine sans bottles right from cellar. However, your guests may not like the idea of drinking from glasses that already had been filled with wine and miss out the romance that opening a bottle of wine brings.
Posted in Luxury on 24 June 2009
Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio have created an amazing floating garden that is visually appealing. All gardens are of course visually appealing but the fact that this garden floats on water makes it all the more exotic and worthy of praise and admiration. This actually is a natural water filtration system for aquariums.
The dirty water is purified and thanks to all the plans the water in the aquarium is oxygenated and it would help your fish to stay healthy. It is based on the principle of hydroponics and it eliminates all the wastes excreted by fish in two ways including gravel bed filtration and Aquaponics and thus nitrate rich water is absorbed by plants and fresh water is released again.
Posted in Luxury on 24 June 2009
Wisdom Audio has launched their Sage Series speakers which are not exactly your conventional speakers. It comes with a planar magnetic driver array which can be adjusted to stand anywhere you want in the house, The L75i models look really awesome and each speaker costs $8,000. These speakers are in-wall speakers and come with amazing scalability.
The Sage Series speakers are bi-amplified and come with a built-in Audyssey MultEQ XT software. The result is amazing and would match the sound quality one would get in high end speakers. The point these speakers are quite high end too, at $8,000 and above each.
Posted in Luxury on 24 June 2009
Montague Paratrooper Tactical Folding Mountain Bike is perhaps the answer you were looking for your biking and outdoors experiences. It can actually withstand a parachute jump and is almost non damageable in normal circumstances. Biking anyway is great for health and in spite of being in good health if you bike for a couple of hours every day your stamina would be consolidated and your skin would glow.
The Montague Paratrooper Tactical Folding Mountain Bike has been specifically designed for paratroopers who can ride their way to a point where they can launch their paragliders. Moreover, such guys would also need to build a lot of stamina and biking seems like the best bet to get that stamina.
Posted in Luxury on 19 June 2009
There is something inversely proportional about a person’s affluence and the size of his wallet. The more a person earns, the less he carries and keeps everything in the bank so that he can use cards. The less money the person has, he would also be less style conscious and carry wads of one dollar bills to make the wallet look fat and thick.
If you are such a guy who has loads of money and wanted to make a style statement, you must check out Prada’s wallet which costs $150. There is space enough for two ID cards, a charge card and some loose cash. You cannot keep wads of bills, ATM receipts, and all the other junk that people usually carry with them.
Posted in Luxury on 19 June 2009
Bradenton, Fla., company HybridSpace Furniture has created what it calls the Man Wall. The Man Wall is similar to the man cave you might have in the cellar where no woman is allowed. The Man Wall measures 2 x 8 x 8 and comes with a cabinet, A/V, 52 inch Vizio TV, three smaller Vizios, a 5-disc 1080p up converting DVD player, and an iPod docking station.
It also comes with a 1,200-watt Panasonic 5.1 theatre system, a pair of wireless surround speakers and a matrix splitter which makes sure you use only on remote for all the four TVs. It even comes with other surprising things such as a microwave oven, two cigar humidors that hold 25 cigars apiece, a 32-bottle wine rack, fridge, beer keg and a tap.
