Rock Royalty Company from Nashville, US, manufactures custom guitars. I’d like to introduce Fender Telecaster guitar, decorated with natural black alligator skin from Louisiana, black diamonds and sterling silver volume knobs, a selector switch set with rubies, and six handmade diamond tuning keys set in sterling silver. Without a doubt it can be called a true masterpiece!

Rock Royalty promises never to duplicate a design of their guitars so that each piece remains totally unique. The Telecaster and Les Paul are two of nine original designs created for the brand’s debut; other models come wrapped in stingray skin and various other exotic finishes.
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High-end carpet retailer the Rug Company released a 7-piece collection of rugs and cushions featuring designs by the late Alexander McQueen. The company has already collaborated with such high-fashion partners as Diane von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood and Matthew Williamson.

The couture-quality rugs and cushions includes four recognizable McQueen motifs–skulls, hummingbirds, feathers and the military brocade that was prominent in the designer’s final collection–and was made using hand knotted wool, cashmere and silk yarns.
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One of the most expensive pianos was unveiled in China. The Rolls Royce Piano finishing looks like a bright red Ferrari. It is probably the most stylish piano ever made.

The piano is estimated at USD $300,000. A girl pictured above plays a piano at Deji Square in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province.
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English Garden Supersize Boxed Canvas is a huge - 2m x 1.1m printed boxed canvas. That’s 6’6” by 3’6”. The ‘wow factor’ behind that big sofa of yours. These giant canvases are also limited to just 100 of each design – each shipped with a certificate of Authenticity.

Boxed canvas fine art prints are printed on 450 gsm fine mesh, canvas fabric stretched over a 45mm frame. As close to looking like an Original painting as possible. Price: £470.
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JM Turner “Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino” masterpiece painted in 1839 fetches £30 million on Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at Sotheby’s. Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino is his final painting of Rome and the monumental work, which measures 90.2 by 122cm (35.5 by 48 in), brings together all of the studies that he made during his two visits to the Italian capital. The painting is further distinguished by its immaculate condition and impeccable provenance, having only appeared on the open market once in the 171 years since it was painted. For the painting, Turner has taken as his viewpoint the top of Capitoline Hill and from here he depicts a scene that unfolds as the spectator’s eye first engages with the Forum, flanked by the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temple of Saturn and the Coliseum.

David Moore-Gwyn states: “The condition of this painting is one of its most amazing attributes. It is outstanding and helps to highlight the genius of Turner by revealing the various techniques that he employed: the cross hatching of dry paint, the thinning out of the paintwork, the working with the bristles of his brush, the array of paint textures and the subtle nuances of colour he uses. These remarkable workings are clearly evident to the eye.” The work has been described as “undoubtedly one of the most important works by the British master ever to come to auction”.
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Reading will never die! And Oxford Press proves it by publishing “The Oxford Companion to the Book” – a hymn to a great way of communication. The book describes a book publishing industry from the first ancient papyrus rolls to a modern digital electronic ones. This unique two-volume work has two parts.

Part I is a substantial series of introductory essays-over forty essays offer generic histories of the subject. Part II of the companion comprises an A-Z section of over 5,000 entries on every aspect of this exceptionally rich and diverse subject. Both parts of the text are richly illustrated with reproductions, diagrams, maps, and examples of various typographical features. Price: $245. Order from Amazon.
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It is too hard nowadays to surprise somebody by a sheet of paper. But in the 14-18th centuries the paper was affordable only to clergy, grand or rich people. Golden Store, a German online shop of luxury goods, offers to the oddities fans a very unique paper that has its origin from the 14th century. The private collection of such ancient paper is rare and valuable. It has an extra limited edition.

Each sheet of paper has its unique watermark and the guarantee of its authenticity. Amaze a business partner with writing a contract on such rare handmade paper or your beloved by composing words of love on it. Price: $13,760 ( EURO 10,000) per sheet of paper. Order from Goldenstore.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of works such as “Cats”, U.K.’s few music millionaire, is going to sell “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)” from Pablo Picasso’s “Blue Period” for charity. Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto is a freely painted study of a raffish young Spanish artist sitting in a bar in Barcelona, Picasso’s friend who who was killed in the Spanish Civil War.

The painting will be included in a June 23 auction of Impressionist and modern art) at a London. It may fetch as much as 40 million pounds ($60.9 million). The “Blue Period” canvas is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at auction in Europe. Lloyd Webber bought this piece of art for $29.2 million using funds donated by the composer himself, said Christie’s. The auction price will be donated to Lloyd Webber’s charity to promote arts and culture throughout the UK.
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Lanvin, France’s oldest high couture fashion house, established in 1889 by designer Jeanne Lanvin. Since 1909 Lanvin took the place of Couture fashion house. Since 2001 Lanvin’s designer and creative direction Alber Elbaz’s improved the house’s conception and now it gratifies us by stylish footwear, bags and accessories.

Alber Elbaz’s designed cute “Little Miss Lanvin” illustrations on some cheeky t-shirts and sweaters. In cooperation with the porcelain company Franz were created “Little Miss Lanvin” dolls. Each season there will be 6 new limited edition porcelain dolls, with just 800 released. Priced: $345 per each.
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