Enjoy the beauty of this Rocky Mountains, luxury estate in Telluride, Colorado. The gorgeous luxury home with soaring ceilings is presented by Telluride Sotheby’s International Realty.

This luxury video showcases this beautiful Telluride, Colorado property that offers panoramic 270-degree views from the San Sophia Range all the way around to iconic Wilson Peak in scenic Colorado.

To learn more about this Telluride, Colorado luxury home, please contact The Life of Luxury. We can help with all of your luxury real estate needs. Follow the luxury house market industry, by visiting our luxury blog.

A true legend and genius in the world of technology, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak along with his good friend Steve Jobs invented the iconic Apple I computer.

Both Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers, Inc. in 1976. Wozniak also personally developed the company’s next computer model- the Apple II.

If you’ve ever dreamed of owning Steve Wozniak’s home, now is your chance. The custom home he had built in the 80’s is up for sale in Los Gatos, California.

This luxury mansion was designed and built specifically for Steve Wozniak back in 1986. “Woz” no longer lives there and home has changed owners several times over the years. But now is your chance to own a part of tech history.

The stunning luxury home is about 7,500 sq ft in size and consists of 6-bedrooms and 6.5-baths. The home sits on 1.19 acres is nestled in the scenic Los Gatos Mountains, near Northern California’s famous Silicon Valley.

The home was recently renovated and re-designed, but still retains several of his most unique design elements.

The current owner last listed the home back in 2012 but took it off the market after not being able to sell it. Last years’s asking price was $5 million but you can now purchase this gorgeous Los Gatos home for a mere $4.395 million.

The home is listed with real estate agent Art Sharif from Sotheby’s International Realty. If you would like additional information about the Steve Wozniak home for sale or looking at buying a home anywhere in the world, please contact The Life of Luxury for personal, real estate service assistance.

Macallan 64 Years Old in Lalique, Cire Perdue Whisky

It’s taken about two years since the significant event, but the Guinness World Records has awarded The Macallan the distinction of being  the “most expensive whisky sold at auction.”

Now the definitive world record holder, David Cox who is the Director of Fine and Rare Whiskies for The Macallan was quoted, “We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the Guinness World Record(tm) for the most expensive whisky sold at auction. This major accolade from such a world-renowned and respected organization proves once and for all that The Macallan is the world record holder.”

The Macallan was founded in 1824 and is proudly one of the world’s most admired and awarded single malt whiskies.

Back in November 2010, The Macallan and Lalique teamed together to auction off the oldest whisky ever bottled by the distillery to benefit charity.

The Macallan’s 64 Years Old in Lalique, Cire Perdue sold at that Sotheby’s auction in 2010 for a record breaking price of $460,000!

The 64 Years Old Single Malt whisky is a one-of-a kind Lalique crystal decanter that housed the oldest and rarest Macallan ever bottled by the famous whisky distillery. The whisky had been vatted from three casks, all built from sherry seasoned Spanish oak.

‘Crouching Nude’  by ‘Crouching Nude’  – Reuters

An iconic painting by Francis Bacon’s titled “Crouching Nude” will be auctioned for the first time in June by Sotheby’s.

This large-scale painting masterpiece from Francis Bacon was actually painted at the peek of an affair Francis Bacon had with a former World War Two fighter pilot.

It is expected that Bacon’s “Crouching Nude” painting could receive as much as 9 million pounds ($15 million) during the June auction at famous auction house Sotheby’s.

Sotheby’s holds its Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London on June 29, and the Francis Bacon painting will be the headline item.

Painted in 1961, Bacon’s “Crouching Nude” is one of the female artist’s large-scale paintings, measuring 198cm by 145cm.

“Alongside Picasso, Bacon is the outstanding postwar artist and his ‘Crouching Nude’ of 1961 is a magnificent painting which epitomizes the artist’s work at this important moment in his career,” said Oliver Barker of auctioneers Sotheby’s.

Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1869

A new record was broken for the world’s most expensive wine ever sold at an auction.

At the recent Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 vintage wine were each sold for a new all-time record of $232,692 (HK$1.8 million).

The Asian wine market continues to be strong for very expensive, top label wines.

The total of the entire Chateau Lafite collection auctioned off at Sotheby’s brought in an astonishing total of $8.4 million.

The Sotheby’s auction was held at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong ballroom. The announcement of the winning bid drew a thunderous applause from the other auction participants.

The Chateau Lafite collection consisted of 284 lots of Lafite, in addition to other chateaux that were owned by Domaines Baron de Rothschild.

The entire wine collection had been exclusively stored in cellars after being bottled, before their shipment to Hong Kong for the Sotheby’s auction.

Lafite reached the top of the first, official quality-based classification of Medoc wines back in 1855.

In 1868, the chateau was purchased by Baron James de Rothschild. Since that time the wine bottles have been proudly labeled as Lafite-Rothschild.

San Francisco, the “City by the Bay, is well known around the world for many things: Golden Gate Bridge, sourdough bread, fog, seafood restaurants, and even earthquakes.  Well we can add – expensive real estate – to the list.

Living in the Bay Area can be expensive. San Francisco, being land locked by the Pacific Ocean to it’s west and San Francisco Bay to its east, doesn’t have the luxury other cities may have and continually grow by building new homes.

Even with the U.S. economy in shambles and free-falling housing prices, San Francisco – California, still has many, very expensive homes for sale.

Here’s a list of the 10 most expensive homes now on the market in scenic San Francisco.

– 2845 Broadway St., $65 million
– 2901 Broadway St., $45 million
– 2601 Broadway St., $15.5 million
– 2100 Vallejo St., $15.2 million
– 2860 Pierce St., $12.5 million
– 3444 Washington St., $12 million
– 601 Dolores St., $9.95 million
– 632 El Camino Del Mar, $9 million
– 2100 Pacific Ave., $8.9 million
– 3857 Clay St., $8.5 million

Photo: REUTERS/Kieran Doherty (BRITAIN BUSINESS SOCIETY)

The Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva, Switzerland will be holding a Sotheby’s auction on November 17th. What makes this auction so unique is the chance to bid on the largest vivid-green diamond ever to appear at auction.

The Sotheby’s auction will offer approximately 400 lots and estimates that proceed could reach $30 million.

The green diamond is cushion-shaped and includes a modified brilliant cut. The diamond weighs 2.52 carats.

Due to the fact that natural diamonds of this color are so rare, this gorgeous green diamond is estimated to sell for between $3.1 million to $5.1 million.

The Sotheby’s auction will offer many unique pieces of jewelry and gemstones. One is a rare , a pear-shaped fancy vivid-blue diamond with a modified brilliant cut.

The blue diamond weighs 5.96 carats and is projected to bring in a winning bid of $5.5 million to $7.5 million.

There is also  a cushion-shaped fancy pink diamond weighing 6.63 carats as well as  a cut-cornered rectangular-shaped fancy vivid-yellow diamond with a modified brilliant cut that weighs 74.8 carats and is mounted on a yellow gold ring.

Sotheby’s Chairman of Jewelry, Europe and Middle East, David Bennett, was quoted as saying, “We are thrilled that we are able to follow on from our achievement of the world record price per carat for any gemstone at auction with the “Star of Josephine” this past May in Geneva by offering a magnificent Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond of 5.96 carats, as well as an extremely rare vivid green diamond – the largest to ever appear at auction.”

The sale will also include beautiful pieces from the collections of Mary – Duchess of Roxburghe, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, and society figure Daisy Fellowes.