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Toronto Ritz-Carlton Hotel Opens

February 16, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day, Tid Bits & News at 10:52 am | Comments off

Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada, the latest luxury hotel has opened their doors.

The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto celebrated their grand opening Wednesday in the core of the financial and performing arts districts.  The legendary hotel chain is bringing a more lavish feeling to downtown Toronto with the 53-story hotel featuring  267 guestrooms including 56 Corner suites, 2 Deluxe Suites and The Ritz-Carlton Suite at over 2,400 square feet of sheer, spacious luxury.

Herve Humler, president and chief operating officer of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, revealed today, “”We are delighted to be able to bring The Ritz-Carlton brand to Canada. Toronto is a key gateway city for our customers and this hotel complements the portfolio of Ritz-Carlton properties around the globe beautifully.”

“Toronto is a cosmopolitan city with true international appeal, attracting visitors from all over the world, whether they are visiting for business or pleasure. The opening of The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto helps to put this vibrant destination on the map for discerning luxury travellers.”

Bulgari SpA To Open Luxury London Hotel

February 14, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day, Holiday Gift Ideas, Tid Bits & News at 11:41 am | Comments off

One of the world’s largest jewelers, Bulgari SpA, has plans to open a luxury London hotel come 2012.

The third largest jeweler in the world has just signed an agreement to open the luxurious hotel and spa in the Knightsbridge’s area of London.   This will be the Rome-based company’s third luxury hotel establishment after Milan and Bali were such a sweeping success.

With 78 lavish rooms, seven 2,150 square-foot suites, spacious ballroom, private cinema, spa, indoor pool and of course restaurants and bars, the new Knightsbridge hotel will be your home away from home in 2012.

Justin Bieber Looking For Luxurious LA Home

February 11, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day at 11:09 am | Comments off

According to The Sun, Baby hitmaker Justin Bieber is looking to move out of the luxury home he shares with his mother and grandparents and into his very own Los Angeles luxury pad.

Bieber is reportedly looking for a place to call home in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, somewhere in the $1 million range, with pool, party room and at least three bedrooms.

When asked if he is planning to fly the nest, the singer’s rep commented, “Justin is looking for a house. But nothing has been purchased as of right now.”

Well, we all know there’s more than enough LA luxury real estate listed right now!

Tehama Grasshopper Condo For Sale (Still)

February 9, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day at 2:48 pm | Comments off

This Tehama Grasshopper Condo, designed by Fourgeron Architecture, has been featured on the cover of Metropolitan Home Magazine. The extraordinary modern design has also received numerous design awards. The condo, which is located in a fabulous San Francisco neighborhood, has been reduced to a listing price of $3.995 million from $4.128 million. So, why isn’t anyone snapping up this fabulous, award-winning home?

The converted warehouse turned a lot of heads when it debuted in 2007, but so far, no buyers. It’s a spacious 5,000 square feet of concrete steel and glass. Perhaps that’s the problem? The design is striking and light-filled, but the stark materials make it feel, well, a little cold, maybe. To warm it up, there is a courtyard that connects the building to the loft, and a decent amount of wood. Still, it might be a little too industrial and avant garde for buyers to consider homey.

Rose McGowan’s Los Feliz Home For Sale

February 3, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as celebrities, Estate of the Day at 7:00 pm | Comments off

Rose McGowan, infamous Hollywood starlet and star of the 90′s TV hit, Charmed, has recently put her gorgeous Los Feliz home up for sale. The Art Deco decorated home has a retro modern elegance that is comfortable and beautiful. There’s that, and the fact that the neighborhood ain’t bad either. Ms. McGowan’s notable neighbors include January Jones and John Hamm (who aren’t a married couple, but play one on Mad Men), director David Fincher, and Laura Prepon from That 70′s Show.

The house is listed for $1,849,000, which is $1000 less than the actress paid for the home in 2004. The market was different then, but the home is still totally gorgeous. At 4,278 square feet, it has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The estate isn’t particularly large, but there are several outdoor patios and terraces that are great for entertaining. The villa, which is designed in a combination of styles, opens onto an impressive tiled entrance hall with cavernous ceilings. It’s not the most enormous mansion on the block, but one of the bedrooms might have been converted into a giant walk-in closet, so it might be just the right place for another hot, young actress with a penchant for designer clothes.

Tiger Woods 10-Acre Luxury Estate Now Complete

February 2, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day at 12:57 pm | Comments off

Tiger Woods’ 10 acre luxury estate is finally finished, even though the golfer is now sans wife Elin Nordegren.

Located in one of the richest zip codes in America in Jupiter Island, Florida, Woods’ estate features a 4-hole golf course of course, running track, 100-foot lap pool, 5,700 square foot exercise and training facility and even a Michael Jackson hyperbaric chamber.

The $50 million home, which used to be four separate properties, is tucked away in “a small stretch that has the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Intercoastal Waterway on another side.”

Well, when you live like Tiger, you need to be tucked away!

Kate Moss Buys Fashionable New London Home

January 27, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as celebrities, Estate of the Day at 5:39 pm | Comments off

Supermodel Kate Moss recently plunked down $7.5 million pounds for this posh Highgate estate. She will reportedly be cohabitating with rocker boyfriend, Jaime Hince of The Kills. Highgate is known for housing some of Britain’s hottest stars, and Moss’s neighbors will include Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Sting and Trudy Styler, and sometimes residents Pierce Brosnanand George Michael. Doesn’t sound like a bad little welcoming party, does it?

The house itself is something of a literary manse. In the early 19th Century, Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was in residence at the estate, where he famously smoked himself into a slow, tragic opium stupor. He died in the home in 1834. Later, novelist J.B. Priestly lived in the home, but apparently his time there was less dramatic than Mr. Coleridge’s.

The mansion boasts 7 bedrooms, 7 fireplaces, 2 kitchens, and 4.5 bathrooms. There’s also a generously-sized wine cellar on the premises and a study called the “Coleridge Room”, where perhaps Miss Moss or Mr. Hince will pen their own drug-fueled literary masterpiece.

Morgans Hotel Group Offers Luxury Minibar For the Mind

January 26, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day, Tid Bits & News at 10:17 am | Comments off

Luxurious hotel chain Morgans Hotel Group has just unveiled a new program that will be available in five of their properties dubbed “Minibar for the Mind.”

For those luxury travelers who would rather think than drink, this new “Minibar for the Mind” offers a well-designed box filled with box of 250 conversation starters, columns written by faculty at The School of Life, “Reading Prescriptions” designed for relaxation as well as some for seduction and a notebook and pencil set.

The set costs $56 (suggesting, perhaps, that minibars are extortionate whatever you put in them) but guests who don’t want to shell out for the product will also be treated to a “Daily Aphorism” with their turn down, with insights from some of the world’s great literary minds.

$56 is about five mini liquor bottles from the real minibar, so we’re thinking this would make an interesting companion for our next Morgans stay.

Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart Luxury Estate For Sale

January 24, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day at 10:38 am | Comments off

None other than actor Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart have placed their luxury estate in Chelsea on the real estate market for an almost reasonable $16 million.

The 9,000-square-foot loft located on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea shares some interesting neighbors, both Meryl Streep and Janet Jackson live in this exclusive locale and now you too can walk into luxury housing fame, well as long as you have upwards of $15,000 per month to keep up the place.

Reportedly, Ford and Flockhart who have homes in Brentwood, California and Jackson Hole are looking to purchase an estate closer to Steven Spielberg in the Mandeville Canyon area, but who can keep up with these celebs?!

Most Expensive Apartments One Hyde Park Opens Doors

January 20, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Estate of the Day, The Most Expensive, Tid Bits & News at 9:34 am | Comments off

The world’s most expensive apartments, One Hyde Park, just celebrated their grand opening.

Opening their doors for the first time, the UK’s One Hyde Park was officially unveiled Thursday by property duo, the Candy brothers.

Each luxury apartment includes a valet, wine cellar, private spa, home cooking by award-winning chefs and of course, a panic room. Only 86 residential flats make up the luxurious One Hyde Park, which average about $9500 per square foot.

The launch is being carefully watched as a litmus test for the financial health of the world’s super-rich and their appetite for London in the wake of the financial crisis.

Well, if it’s any indication at all, we wouldn’t mind kicking up our heels at the Park.

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