AN AK-47 FOR THE OFFICE
Arms dealers have been known to flood the African market and now the Geneva-based mechanical luxury maker Roland Iten has reclaimed the killing machines to turn them into arm candy under the new brand Fonderie 47. A pair of the cufflinks costs nearly $33,000, possibly the most expenisve in the world, and are plated with 18K white and rose gold. Only 20 pieces will be made and over 20,000 guns will be taken off the streets. In addition to cufflinks, Fonderie 47 makes custom rings for men and earrings for women. To create one ring some 75 assault riffles are destroyed and 500 are melted down and redesigned for a […]
STILTON TURNS FROM BLUE TO GOLD
Tomorrow the World Cheese Awards kick off at the BBC Good Food Show in London. Long Clawson, an award-winning British cheese maker, has created his self-proclaimed world’s most expensive cheese: White Stilton Gold, “a premium white Stilton made with edible gold leaf and gold-flecked cinnamon schnapps”, accodrding to the blog Luxuo. It costs £608/kg ($432.27/lb) however a Serbian cheese maker sells Pule made from the milk of Balkan donkeys for £1,000/kg ($711/lb). White Stilton Gold will be available in limited supply throughout the holidays, although you might want to keep at bay from friends and family at $95 a slice.