Sotheby’s on eBay
Famed auction house Sotheby’s and eBay launched yesterday their new live online auction site, live.ebay.com/lvx/sothebys. The site, hosted by eBay, will allow collectors to bid on auctions in New York from anywhere in the world as they happen, access live streaming audio and video of the sales, and view items for sale. The first auctions on the platform will begin on April 1 (that’s no joke) with photographs and a themed New York sale that will include the 13 letters of the 1970s Yankee Stadium sign that could fetch up to $600,000 from the collection of baseball great Reggie Jackson. Online art sales are not new. Sotheby’s and its rival […]
All aboard top chefs
A group of top UK chefs that includes Raymond Blanc, Tom Kerridge and Anton Mosimann will be hosting pop-up dinners aboard luxury trains for train buffs who also have fine dining palates. Throughout 2015, the Belmond British Pullman and the Belmond Northern Belle will turn their luxurious art deco carriages, circa 1920s, 1930s, into Michelin-grade fine dining restaurants, where guests will go back in time and revisit the golden era of rail travel. In July, chef Tom Kerridge, whose Marlow eatery The Hand & Flowers is the only pub to hold two Michelin stars, will recreate the pub experience aboard the Belmond British Pullman. In November, Raymond Blanc, chef of […]