What is a good indicator of personal wealth? Car, yacht, expensive clothes? We believe that the greatest indicator of personal wealth is the home in which someone lives (or only lives occasionally). The bigger the house, the bigger the wallet. Here are the fifteen most expensive houses in the world, owned by some of the richest people in the world.
Architecture & Interior
Espresso cafetiera Pulcina is the work of Michele de Lucchi and combines the technology of two Italian giants of design and coffee industry - Alessi and Illycaffè. The latter lent his knowledge of coffee preparation, while Alessi provided experience in design. And a coffee machine was born that makes coffee for the new millennium by emphasizing the organoleptic properties of coffee, i.e. the characteristics that we perceive through the mouth and nose.
As a child (at least boys), you probably had a mini basketball hoop on the door or wall. You probably wouldn't defend yourself from this kind of throwing even now, and you don't have to, but you won't do it out of sheer boredom, but because it's your duty. This does not mean that you will change your career for a basketball player, but because you will come up with Hamper Hoops, a hoop basket in the shape of a basketball hoop. Because cleaning dirty laundry is your responsibility! Men are incorrigible "pigs" like dirty laundry, which usually lies everywhere, not just in the laundry basket. Now that you can put it away like a three-pointer, it might not land anywhere but the floor. Unless, of course, you're really bad at basketball.
Luxury in London is about to get a whole new definition. A bridge will grow between two 10-story residential buildings, which will actually be a pool with a glass bottom. The so-called Sky Pool will be part of the Embassy Gardens residential complex, which is planned by the Ballymore Group in the prestigious London district near the River Thames. The sky pool will be 25 meters long and five meters wide, and will rise to a height of 35 meters. And don't worry, if you forget your bathing suit, the pedestrian bridge will run parallel to it, not just for bathers.
Every year, tourists visit the Palace of Versailles en masse - the Palace of Versailles. The rich estate of the former French monarchy near Paris, with its luxurious palace and beautiful gardens, should soon have a luxury hotel. Tourists with some extra cash will thus get the chance to experience a royal overnight stay at the Palace of Versailles.
Modularity is one of those features that a large part of modern furniture possesses. Just like telephones (which, among other things, are already modular), furniture elements have become more (multi)practical. The Float modular chairs from the Perch design studio can also boast of their versatility (to be assembled and disassembled), which are ideal for 21st century business premises, as well as for the home environment.
Do you always feel relaxed in a Chinese restaurant? The "inaudible" ambient music that plays in the background, which imperceptibly soothes you, has many fingers in between. The A Soft Murmur website also does something similar in situations where you just can't get your act together. Namely, it offers a "mixing table" of ambient sounds with which you can recreate characteristic sounds from the environment - the sound of the sea, blowing wind, bees in a cafe, crackling fire, birdsong, white noise,... that help you stay focused.
Pile is an instant social corner that is ideal for small apartments. It is functional furniture that will allow you to entertain many more than just one or two friends even in a small home. Michael Blutrich sought a solution for such cases and created Pile, a modular piece of furniture that consists of a table, upholstered mats, horn-shaped cushions and a lamp, and which transforms from a "spit" of furniture into a pleasant atmosphere for socializing.
The market is flooded with freestanding lamps, yet it seems that rarely does one really stand out. But the Ace Floor Lamp is the (literally) bright exception that proves the rule. The stick-shaped free-standing lamp is handmade from wood and has a minimalist design, and it pours warm white light into the room with LEDs.
''What we do counts.'' Even if it means creating comical table lamps. The What We Do Counts lamps are not an end in themselves, because in addition to their functionality, they carry an important message, and they are comical not because of their funny appearance, but because they imitate the appearance of a text bubble from comics. They were not signed by a draftsman, but by the German industrial designer Ingo Maurere, who spent the last four decades of his life creating lamps and other light fixtures.
After the first Slovenian board game, which was successfully financed through a financial campaign on Kickstarter last year, the social game Less from the company Invented4 is also following in Tracker's footsteps, starting its march towards the set financial goal on August 26, 2015. Less is brilliant in its simplicity and new proof that a great game doesn't need complexity of use. It's like the Harry Potter books of board strategy games, something that will draw you in with its simple brilliance.
YO! Home is a small apartment that allows incredible metamorphosis. It is a revolutionary way of using apartments, the concept of which has practically not changed since the beginning of their construction. Simon Woodroffea has already demonstrated the extremely economical use of space with the futuristic Yotel hotels, Yo! Home is a step further. It's a home that uses the mechanics we're used to on stage sets, which can quickly turn a single-apartment apartment into a multi-apartment apartment, into a living room, into a dining room, into a bedroom, into practically anything.