The date has now been set for the opening of the world’s tallest hotel, Hong Kong’s Ritz-Carlton.

The finishing touches are now being applied to the 118 storey hotel as Hong Kong prepares to open its tallest building in March 2011. It will be occupy floors 102 to 118 within The International Commerce Centre (ICC), which is situated on the Kowloon waterfront. The 484 metre hotel will take the ‘world’s tallest hotel’ title from Dubai’s Rose Tower Hotel which stands at 333 metres and 72  floors.

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A 64 year old bottle of Macallan whisky has sold at a New York charity auction for $460,000 – making it the most expensive whisky ever bought in the world.

This rare single malt whisky was contained in a bespoke Lalique crystal decanter and auctioned to mark the birth of Rene Lalique, the founder of the world’s leading crystal artisans. The decanter was designed and hand-crafted by Lalique and was inspired by the beauty of the Macallan’s 150 hectare estate in North-Eastern Scotland. The design is not dissimilar to a traditional ship’s decanter from the 1820s – the decade in which Macallan was founded.

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It was understandable and somewhat predictable when a Lexus SC430 sports car on display in Taiwan, was decked out with more than 300,000 Swarovski crystals only to become known as the “Jewel of the Lexus”.

The name ‘Tata Motor Nano’ hardly invokes feelings of lavishness and opulence, although the days of dismissing the ‘cheapest car in the world’ as an economical and ‘sensible’ car, are about to be numbered, when its mundane exterior is bejeweled in head to toe gold.

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If you are wondering how to outshine your loved one in locating and purchasing the most luxurious Christmas gift available, then you may be tempted by one of Firebox.com’s new range of highly extravagant Christmas gifts.

From a flame throwing Batmobile to a watercraft mimicking the actions of a real-life dolphin, the ‘WTF’ – ‘What the Firebox’ range exudes in extravagance and luxury, and guarantees to make the present unwrapping of Christmas 2010 a memorable one.  Below is a snippet of the best this highly delectable range of luxurious Christmas gift collection has to offer.

Villain Chair

Just sitting on this huge swivel chair handmade from chrome, steel and with 20 padded leather facets on formed aluminium, one feels compelled to fantasize they are a villain from a Bond movie or perhaps even Scarface (Al Pacino) himself. Costing approximately $7,230 it easy to gage why this incredibly luxurious chair has been ingeniously named the ‘villain Chair’.

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Since its beginnings in 1904 at Van Courtland Park in New York City, the US Open Polo Championships have been considered as being one of three greatest polo championships in the world, alongside Argentine and British tournaments, and is by far the most important polo event in the whole of the USA. From Sebastian Merlos to Adolfo Cambiaso, Lucas Criado to Facundo Pieres, the month-long tournament attracts the world’s premier polo players. The world-class polo season begins in Wellington in January and concludes in April with the most exalted event in North American polo, the US Open Championships.

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