If you like you’re coffee smooth, silky and expensive, you might want to get yourself a cup of De’Longhi Caffe Raro which retails for £50 ($100) per cup. This blend combines two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, Kopi Luwak and Jamaican Blue Mountain to give a truly luxurious cup of coffee. For the uninitiated it’s worth pointing out that the [...]
Continue reading...11. April 2008
Recently I was in the planning stages of a trip to Austin & San Antonio, Texas, when I stumbled upon something I had never heard before. According to Frommers & Orbitz, the Hill Country of Texas is the second most visited wine region in the States, second only to the Napa Valley. Texas!? The Texas that I know [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2008
At first glance, Sony’s new Bravia E4000 TV left us confused. Yes, ‘cuz we just couldn’t make out the Bravia Flat TV amongst the different paintings that adorned the wall. If not for the little Sony insignia below the LCD panel, we certainly wouldn’t have found out which amongst the paintings was the Bravia E4000. [...]
Continue reading...8. April 2008
Who discovered Zero? Most of you will answer that an ancient Indian astronomer named ARYABHATT discovered zero for his complex astronomical calculation. Hats off for your GK (general knowledge) dear but I am referring to the ZERO Discreet Home Media Center. Designed by Chris Kujawski, it is a holistic integration of the media center PC [...]
Continue reading...7. April 2008
The ubiquitous kitchen cutting board has now got a new lease of life with Nardo Design’s new high-tech Digital Cutting Board. This board comes with a flexible, yes you heard right, flexible LCD display that displays cooking instructions on it so that you can conjure up that meal, perfectly. And, while doing so, you can [...]
Continue reading...4. April 2008
Vertical Edge This flexible seating system, designed by Swedish furniture designer Jonas Wannfors for LYX, can be used either indoors or outdoors and consists of three pieces: straight, exchange and end. The three modules can be pieced together in any which way to create a unique seating arrangement to best fit the desired space. [...]
Continue reading...13. March 2008
If you are on the market looking for a new showerhead for your bathroom then this Lounge shower head by Newform has everything that you need and even more. The stainless steel ceiling head shower might look like just another shower head but it's anything but ordinary. The luxury shower head comes complete with raining [...]
Continue reading...13. March 2008
We have seen some fascinating grills in the past including the Dragon BBQ Grill, BBQ Train and recently the giant pistol-shaped BBQ. Another astounding grill could be this Hanging Grill concept from NotCot team. The Pendent style grill could be shaped in six possible designs marked by rough sketches in the picture, above. And, the [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2007
The Austonian, based in you guessed it, Austin, Texas is first big tower I've seen in this city. The 55-story luxury condo tower was recently profiled in the Austin American Statesman for having a dog toilet. The 10th floor of the building is home to an urban garden that includes a lap pool, billiards room, [...]
Continue reading...1. May 2007
The last thing the world needs is yet another boutique hotel. Except maybe for Shanghai, where the hotel market has till now been more about grandeur (the Four Seasons, the Grand Hyatt, the Pudong Shangri-La) than intimacy. Twenty-eight-year-old wunderkind developer Yenn Wong hopes to change that with her—yes, her—new JIA Shanghai. While she collaborated with [...]
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12. April 2008
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