#private-sales

#private-sales

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' roots go back to 1904 when the well-to-do Charles Rolls teamed up with engineer Henry Royce. The manufacturer has since fallen under BMW ownership, but has resisted the lure of chasing volume production.

Chanchai Ruayrungruan, who founded Beijing-based conglomerate Reignwood Group, has been testing market appetite for 1620 Carla Ridge in Beverly Hills since 2016, when he first put it on the market with an asking price of $26 million.

"For me, sustainability is not a layer added on top for storytelling or branding. It has to be embedded in the identity of the restaurant and in the flavor of the food itself."

"The Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls) is an exceptional example of the Studio's technical brilliance, emotional depth, and command of color and light," said Victoria Tudor, head of design at Christie's.

The agency has confirmed what it called a "very difficult" decision to close its last remaining office on Brompton Road, bringing an end to operations that once stretched from the Home Counties to Monte Carlo.

The Rolex Lady-Datejust is an exceptional timepiece that sets the gold standard for women's luxury watches, renowned for its timeless design, unmistakable prestige, and mechanical precision.

Private auctions are characterized by their curated nature, taking place outside the traditional public auction format, which allows for a more controlled and quieter sales environment.

If you want to sell Basquiats and Birkins to the very rich, it might help to have a location on Billionaires' Row. It might also help if that location had a certain cultural cachet. Bonhams, the international auction house, managed to find such a spread in a 42,000-square-foot space that is knitted from the lower floors of an odd collection of prewar buildings and razed lots, with pops of old brick walls and limestone interrupting expanses of sheer, contemporary glass.

We look at the 2030 target as a floor of our ambitions, always acting in the long-term interest of our brand, safeguarding exclusivity above all. That is not how automakers talk. That is how luxury houses talk.

The street's ultra-luxury towers - from the first generation of supertalls west of Sixth Avenue that shaped the skyline, to mixed-use developments eastward 'driving the next phase of growth' - offer a dense concentration of cultural and lifestyle capital, paired with direct access to Central Park.

These brands specialize in just that: pieces created by hand to your exacting designs and specifications, and never to be replicated. Maybe you're looking for top-of-the-range headphones to match your jet. Or could it be a suit for a pirate-esque get together? Or even an engraved signet ring, depicting a favored holiday destination in full color? For all of the above and more, here's who Elite Traveler recommends.

The sale brought in £130.6 million ($175 million) across 54 lots, and auctioneer Oliver Barker was given a white glove at the end, indicating that all the lots had sold—although one work, a 2004 painting by Robert Ryman, was withdrawn before the event started.

Stephen Friedman was overdue filing when he went into liquidation on 2 February, closing his London gallery immediately (his New York venue shuttered around the same date). At the time of writing, invoices remain unpaid and artists unable to retrieve works from storage companies. In a statement, Friedman says 'all matters are now subject to the administrator's consideration'.