Repossessed flat comes to the market in Candy & Candy’s One Hyde Park
This morning, Spear’s Wealth Management’s Josh Spero reported that a repossessed one bedroomed flat was for sale in Knightsbridge’s One Hyde Park...
Items with tarnished connections
Be it a rare tintype photograph of Billy the Kid (sold for $2 million in 2011) or the blood stained toe tag of Lee Harvey Oswald (sold for $67,500 in 2008),...
007’s Lotus Esprit submarine car headlines second day at RM Auction’s annual London sale
The term ‘barn find’ is an often used phrase in the motoring world. In the case of a Lotus Esprit submarine...
The mainstay of the week: car displays and auctions
London has been the backdrop for some of the world’s finest cars this week.
Salon Privé at Syon Park was a particular highlight and amongst the best...
Former John Entwistle Rolls-Royce shooting brake sells for £43,700
John Entwistle of The Who was a man who bought cars “to drink in” given that he never learnt to drive. A Rolls-Royce shooting brake that...
One of Liberace’s pianos heads to auction
Liberace personally played to 25 million fans during his 40-year career and during this time he built up a mammoth collection of pianos. One of them, a Conover...
Apartment to rent above Julian Assange’s hideout
Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge since 19th June 2012. Now there’s a chance to share live in the same building as...
Renowned sculptor Jonathan Wylder seeks models
Talented sculptor Jonathan Wylder is setting himself up as the “artist at work” at Belgravia’s The Osbourne Gallery between 7th and 22nd September. He is looking for individuals to...
Record price set for a mansion in San Francisco by Yahoo! chief
San Francisco’s Pacific Heights is best known for its extremely expensive properties and as home to the likes of novelist Danielle Steele, SKYY...
A Daimler previously owned by The Queen goes for £25,000 more than its lowest estimate
A Daimler formerly owned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II that we featured last month was auctioned yesterday by Historics...
A £5.8 million Connecticut mansion
Completed in 1906, Sharon, Connecticut’s most impressive home is undoubtedly a property named Filston House. Better known as “The Colgate Mansion”, the J. William Cromwell, Jr. designed residence was...
Architecture student turns a bus into a travelling talking point
A young man named Hank Butitta is someone who will doubtless inspire many. He bought an old bus as his final project for his thesis...
James Murphy offers a rundown on the trends in cinema today and an insight into what is coming in 2014 and 2015
Summer 2013 was unremarkable for movies. Iron Man 3: too clever for its...
Rolls-Royce shooting brake commissioned by John Entwistle of The Who goes to auction
In the manner typical of a rock star, The Who’s John Entwistle never learnt to drive. Instead, the legendary bass player bought...
A one off Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé available only in Abu Dhabi
We recently featured a special edition Bentley Mulsanne created in honour of the 90th anniversary of the first Le Mans 24 Hours race. With...
Contents of The Hempel Hotel to be sold at auction
The contents of Bayswater’s iconic The Hempel Hotel, originally designed by Anouska Hempel, are to be sold following the building’s sale to British Land for...
Board game sets suitable for high rollers
As many of our readers relax on their yachts and in villas in the South of France the Hamptons and Ibiza, many will be enjoying the odd board...
Fiat heir partners with Gucci to launch Lapo’s Wardrobe
Lapo Elkann, a member of the Italian Agnelli dynasty, recently launched a made-to-measure collection named Lapo’s Wardrobe in conjunction with Gucci.
Described as “a luxury sartorial service...
Former Jeremy Clarkson Jaguar XKR goes to auction
Jeremy Clarkson once famously pulled what he called a “Jaguar face” in an episode of Top Gear. Looking like a cross between Joyce Grenfell and a beaver,...
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw sell Tennessee farm
If you’re buying in London with a budget of £13 million, you could get a 4-bedroom apartment in Chesham Place, Belgravia. In Franklin, Tennessee for the same...
Hispano-Suiza comfortably exceeds reserve at Monterey
The 1935 Hispano-Suiza K6 cabriolet that we featured last week was amongst the star lots at this year’s RM Auctions Monterey sale. Against a $1.5 million to $2 million...
A red trouser fan site that most definitely amuses
The Steeple Times sung the praises of red fashion this week after Debenhams declared that red brace sales were on the wane. We decided, therefore, to...
Bentley launch limited edition Le Mans Mulsanne at Pebble Beach
This week as the world’s motoring enthusiasts gather on California’s Monterey Peninsula for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Bentley will be using the occasion to...
Chelsea’s answer to John Lennon adapts a Nissan Primera
A recent addition to the streets of Chelsea is a Nissan Primera whose owner plainly took inspiration from John Lennon’s customised Rolls-Royce Phantom V.
Adorned with such...
The best apartments for ultra high net worth individuals
Jet setting ultra high net worth individuals, be they top flight hedge fund titans or Russian oligarchs, often want homes that they can lock-up-and-leave when they...
Matthew Steeples celebrates that a major change in tastes in furniture is finally on the horizon
The designer Anya Hindmarch MBE is a beacon in the British fashion world and in remarks this week in...
Two Rolls-Royce Phantoms blinged beyond belief
It’s the ‘Silly Season’ and this week we have two Pictures of the Week. One is of an American Rolls-Royce Phantom and the other is of a similarly ridiculous...
A restored 1935 Hispano-Suiza K6 cabriolet to be sold at RM Auctions Monterey sale
Hispano-Suiza, literally meaning ‘Spanish-Swiss’, was a Barcelona based automotive firm that was founded in 1904 and which operated until 1968. In...
Daimler previously owned and driven by The Queen goes to auction
The phrase “one careful lady owner” is indeed often very liberally used. A favourite of the Arthur Daley school of car dealer, it generally...
Jack Vetrianno puts painting on the market (and throws in a flat)
Whoever buys Scottish artist Jack Vettriano OBE’s £2 million flat in Pont Street, Knightsbridge gets not only a one bedroomed flat, but also...
Charles Saatchi to sell a bed by Tracey Emin
Charles Saatchi’s ex-wife to be Nigella Lawson recently moved out of their marital home in Shawfield Street, Chelsea. Now, with the sale of a four poster...
Newport Convertible Engineering create a convertible Range Rover
Some people like the understated look. Others like to be noticed. Those falling into the latter category will undoubtedly be impressed by Orange County based convertible car...
