Buy a bomb, plant it in your garden and promote peace

The tastemakers at AHAlife, especially its founder Shauna Mei, like to think they are “driving conscious consumption.” The luxury leifestyle blog JustLuxe describes AHAlife “as a hybrid of Gilt Group and Ideal Bite” with a “unique social-media elements and marketing prescience” because all of the products are curated by influencers in the fashion, food, home and other categories, who make their selections because they believe in products, not because they’re being paid an assignment fee. And, now they want you to buy a bomb for peace — well, really spoon-shaped garden markers ($66) made from bombs dropped on Laos during the Vietnam conflict. The sale of these products benefits the […]

Dalmore, no more

The last remaining bottle of Dalmore 62 has been sold for an amazing SGD 250,000 (USD 191,938) to a Chinese businessman at Singapore’s Changi Airport. The luxury 62-year old bottle is the last of just 12 bottles that were produced and is the most expensive bottle of Scotch ever to be sold. The Dalmore 62 contains spirit which dates all the way back to 1868 and the huge price tag owes much to the beautiful presentation of the bottle and the fact it is the only bottle left in the world. The rare spirit now lives in a handmade wooden presentation case, which took over 100 hours to create and design. via […]