Following the success of the Millennium Towers resort launched in San Francisco in 2009, the PuLi hotel offers China the first luxury urban resort.

This is a new concept for the Far East, and PuLi signifies the first luxury resort within the city of Shanghai, as well as China. It has 26 floors, 209 rooms and 20 suites, and is centrally located in the heart of Shanghai’s business, shopping, sightseeing and entertainment districts. The idea is to provide an oasis for guests so that they can be transported away from busy city life, into the calm and tranquil atmosphere of the hotel.

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In our increasingly gadget obsessed world, being seen with any phone other than an iPhone can be highly damaging to one’s reputation. Spending several hundred dollars on the latest multi-faceted mobile phone spawns a degree of prosperity and style, seemingly necessary in our progressively image-infatuated culture. But imagine casually producing an $8 million iPhone from your pocket when socializing with friends?     

For the more ‘financially-gifted’ in the world with an exquisite taste for the height of luxury items, owning a mere Android iPhone is as undesirable as a 1980s video collection. The mega rich want gadgets dripping in diamonds, saturated with precious stones and shimmering with every move, causing envious onlookers to pitifully stuff their phone back into their pocket.

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3.14 Hotel

Located in the heart if the Golden Triangle in Cannes, the 3.14 takes you on a flamboyant fantasy, soaring through the five continents of the world capturing a different one on each floor.

Boasting 5 floors, 96 rooms and 15 suites, this luxury hotel focuses on the art of Feng Shui; the philosophic energies of water, fire, earth and air. It is brimming with leisure and entertainment, with the Cink Restaurant serving the finest Mediterranean Cuisine and the Lounge Bar for after-dinner drinks. It also holds the Bhog, the centre of the hotel’s creative theme, holding temporary exhibits that alternate between original works, internationally known artists and young, contemporary artists. Perhaps the most luxurious feature of the hotel is the Apartment; an Asian style suite that overlooks the sea. It has a large living room and a bedroom, and contains a mini bar, two large TVs, internet and DVD player within its generous 20 square metres. There is also a bathroom complete with a bathtub, a shower and 2 toilets.

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Swiss brand Piaget has created a new line of ‘cocktail rings’ that resemble some of the most iconic cocktails to add to their Limelight Collection.

The brand has welcomed six new additions, each named after a drink. There’s the Whiskey on the Rocks, made of 18 carat yellow gold with a citrine stone in the middle, and 2 quartz stones cut to look like ice cubes. The perpetual popularity of the Cosmopolitan cocktail is immortalised in diamonds with a flaming rubelite stone set in a bed of diamonds and finished with a jewelled star fruit. The simple White Tonic channels the suave nature of Bond with its salute to the traditional Martini drink; a base of diamonds with a green ‘olive’ on the side. The Blue Ocean is formed of a huge blue topaz stone, with a coralline bead to represent a cherry. It is then completed with a tiny diamond straw. The Blueberry Daiquiri is based around a cushion-cut Amethyst and finished with a diamond staw, and pink sapphire umbrella.

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What is the world’s most expensive bottle of liqueur?

A bottle of Chambord valued at $3.24 million. The iconic Chambord Royale orb bottle is handmade from 18 carat gold, encrusted with more than 1,100 round and pear shaped diamonds, the most precious of pearls and embezzled with a square cut emerald diamond.

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