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If you like your living space large, you can compromise on your bathing space and yet keep it compact and chic. And if you plan it just right, your bathroom might turn out to be as luxurious as the rest of your house. Check out the drop-in bathroom set from Pearl Baths which comes with a built-in fireplace. The Eterne drop-in bathtub at the center is equipped with air therapy, hydrotherapy, heat therapy, chromatherapy and aromatherapy making it a complete at-home spa. To complete the luxury feel, the bathroom is a stainless steel firebox to enjoy a refreshing bath at the end of a long day!

It makes perfect sense that your car should reflect your personality, just as your clothes do. However, industrial design engineer Beau Reid has a new notion in the making with his custom-made carbon fiber briefcase to match your vehicle specs – your briefcase should reflect your car’s personality. This is all happening in his company called Dynamic Innovations, where each briefcase is custom made to match the consumer’s automobile with paint and interior. Using the highest quality leather and paint to match vehicle specs, Dynamic Innovations has “probably” made the most expensive briefcase ever. Priced at $15,000, Beau Reid expects the price to drop down once the product goes mainstream in the future.

A pretty girl jumping out of an over-sized cake is so passé! With a more mature audience gracing your parties, you need to look for some more innovative and creative options. Now that doesn’t mean you pull of a Michael Jackson and plan an elaborate entry sequence for yourself, but there are some nice people helping you do that with more élan and panache. Why not try the ‘Happy hour Chandelier’ instead? The brain child of award winning choreographer and dancer Nanine Linning and the talented designer Marcel Wanders, the strong and elegant chandelier will have the ‘Dancing Angel’ dangling at the center while will pour out champagne to her audience through her 20- minute dance performance!

The most expensive joint on the Las Vegas Strip finally opened to public on Wednesday night. Christened the Aria Resort & Casino, this 4,000 room resort is located at the heart of the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex. CityCenter owners, MGM Mirage and Dubai World thanked the architects and the employees at a morning ceremony at the resort’s main valet, hours before an evening gala and Aria’s public opening before midnight. The 61-story Aria Resort & Casino was to be publicly unveiled with fireworks and fanfare. According to research analyst’s, once Aria opens, its rooms, along with those at CityCenter’s Mandarin Oriental and Vdara hotels, will increase room capacity on the Las Vegas Strip by 8.5 percent.

The Dom Pérignon Black Box by Marc Newson is a new concept designed by Marc Newson for Dom Pérignon. The Black Box encapsulates a bottle of Dom Pérignon protecting it and keeping it cool. The shape of the Dom Pérignon is visible through the box and the signature Dom Pérignon in Marc Newson’s typical green color with a matching green handle. The Dom Pérignon Black Box by Marc Newson is available in limited quantities from Dom Pérignon stockists.

Las Vegas’ big gamble, the massive CityCenter is finally starting to be open to the public. The Vdara Hotel and Spa is partnering with Vanity Fair to co-host a grand opening gala hosted by Sebastian Copeland with Orlando Bloom and Rosario Dawson on Tuesday in support of the Sebastian Copeland Foundation, a new foundation to explore climate change. Entertainment will be provided by DJs Donovan Leitch and Mathieu Schreyer and guests will dine on food from Martin Heierling, executive chef of Vdara and the hotel’s contemporary Mediterranean restaurant, Silk Road.

Vdara is a non-gaming, smoke-free environment which is physically connected to Bellagio and adjacent to the ARIA resort. The LEED Gold certified project includes the 18,000-square-foot, two-level wellness spa, Vdara Health and Beauty. The hotel features a variety of stay options the most lavish of which are the two-bedroom penthouse suites which each have a full kitchen, a washer and dryer, flatscreen televisions and a bathroom with a soaking tub.

The 4,004-room Aria Resort & Casino will open on December 16. Many are concerned about how eager people will be to check out the new hotel considering that room prices are lower across the Strip and tourism is still down. The AP reports that including condominiums, CityCenter will have nearly 6,800 units open early next year. Rates at Vdara start at $129, $149 at anchor resort Aria and $345 at the Mandarin Oriental.

The limited edition Leica M7 Edition Hermès will capture memorable pictures for £8550 soon. Designed by renowned fashion house Hermès, only 200 of this exclusive edition of Leica UK’s classic 35mm rangefinder system camera will be available. To be precise, 100 in trade mark Hermès orange and 100 in a green called ‘etoupe’. Certainly this line is tweaked with enhanced features. The company has revealed to BJP that the top plate is engraved with the Leica name in classic script: the red Leica logo has been omitted to preserve the color harmony of the leather covering.

Hmm I love a good cigar and just 25 years ago, the owner of the in Geneva located prestigious Griffin’s Club, Bernard Grobet, successfully started an era of exquisite tobacco creations that initially were reserved for himself and the club, but which exceptional class rapidly spread like a wildfire. Before long, they found home in every well-esteemed tobacconists selection, and the noble Special XXV Edition was now introduced to celebrate the cigars bearing the heraldic beast. For this reason, a pristine white ceramic tin was forged to accommodate 25 of Griffin’s tried and tested 14 centimeter long, 2.1 centimeter in diameter Robusto cigars. San Vicente Seco, Piloto Ligero und Olor Ligero tobaccos wrapped in a Piloto binder and bright Connecticut Ecuador wrapper leaf complete a tight bundle of grand and immaculate appearance with a fine-aromatic and full-bodied smoking experience.

Born out of the need to identify shapes that convey naturalness, elegance and simplicity, the “Ego” by Luca Veneri is a glossy bathtub that promises to enhance the bathing experience, while giving a boost to your home decor. Finished in HI-MACS (Natural Acrylic Stone made from 75% natural mineral), the translucent bathtub creates a dialogue between the supple forms of shower-taps and organic volume of the tub. Integrating a waterfall shower system, a flat blade of water created with the help of a special aerator and a water channeling system, the chic bathtub presents a stain resistant surface and refreshes the users in a hygienic manner. Weighing about 400 kg, the bathtub by the Italian designer is estimated to cost $6,500.

Coldwell Banker has released their 2009 Coldwell Banker® Home Price Comparison Index (HPCI) and found that La Jolla, California is the most expensive market. In fact there is an over $2 million gap between what they deem the most expensive and most affordable U.S. housing markets. The comparison of similar 2,200-square foot homes in 310 U.S. housing markets found that the average home price in La Jolla, California is $2.125 million while at the other end of the spectrum, Grayling, Michigan was the most affordable market in America, where a similarly sized home costs $112,675. California fared badly, 13 other California markets are on the most expensive list while Grayling was one of 20 Midwest communities on the most affordable list (others include Akron, Canton, Detroit and Wichita).

Looking at four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath homes in the United States, thirty percent of the markets show this type of home to be below $200,000, while half of the markets surveyed showed an average price for this type of home to be less than $300,000 meaning there are deals out there. The cumulative average sales price of the four-bedroom homes surveyed in the 310 U.S. markets (including one in Puerto Rico) covered in the Coldwell Banker HPCI is $363,460.

Check in on one of my favorite estates which happens to be in the seaside town. The Razor was once listed at $39 million, it was $32 million when I covered it in April and is now down to $28 million.

Thanks Luxist