Luxury home in “FORESTSIDE” Neighborhood with incredible views of vistas/Lake for miles! Beautiful Cherry kitchen with GRANITE/SUBZERO, Fantastic Great room with Fieldstone fireplace, Built-ins, & Specialty windows, 1st floor study or 2nd Fam.rm, Incredible fireplaced master suite..Dramatic cath. bath with Marble/Granite floors/shower, Finished 3rd floor with game & Exercise Room, *Stunning back yard with Gunite pool with Waterfall, Hot tub, Stone fireplace & outdoor kitchen!* A REAL SHOWPLACE! Visit Hopkinton MA Real Estate to see more homes and Hopkinton and other surrounding Metrowest Massachusetts Communities. Local Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate blog.

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Listed by: Bill Gassett

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OCEANFRONT, BEACHFRONT BUILDING, OCEAN WATERVIEW from every room part
of these 2200 square feet of luxury. Buy this 3 bedrooms, 2 and 1/2
bathrooms Corinthian beauty. Crown moldings. High ceilings. Totally
renovated to perfection. Move-in. Stainless steel appliances. Hurricane
accordion shutters and separate upright freezer. Price has been reduced
from 1.2 million for quick sale. I speak Spanish, English, & some
French. 6% commission to buyers agent!Contact Harriet Kutell(305)864-9028hkutell@earthlink.net

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Great location for this 3 bedroom plus a den, 2 bath lakefront home in wind protected Boulder Bay. Upgraded kitchen with granite counters, newer tile and carpeting, vaulted ceilings and a real rock fireplace. Two large decks to take in the awesome views, new composition roof and exterior paint. Detached 2 car garage. Boat dock and dock right included.

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With the Big Bang’s new found popularity amongst the horologically savvy Hublot has unveiled its “One Million Dollar Big Bang” at this year’s Baselword. The One Million Dollar Big Bang watch is completely covered, case, dial and buckle, with more than 493 Top Wesselton “baguette” diamonds. It is the first ever watch or let me be precise, flying tourbillion, realized in “serti mysterieux” or “mysterious setting.” Serti mysterieux is a technique pioneered by Van Cleef & Arpels to hide the stone settings under the stone. Thus you can only see the diamonds or the stones, not the structure which is holding them.

Hublot has spent more than 2,000 hours making the One Million Dollar Big Bang; from design through to research and development, machine programming, choice of (micro-) precision tools, the cutting of the diamonds, the visual examination of each part, setting, casing and fine-tuning.

This just leaves one question, “Is the One Million Dollar Big Bang considered a Timepiece or Jewelry?”

Paul Klee’s painting, the “Ausserdem ein Mänchen” was sold for $1,105,000 at Christie’s New York auction yesterday.

From the auction lot notes:
“Klee left Germany in 1933, following Hitler’s ascendancy to power, and settled in Bern, where he had grown up as child. He produced a prolific body of work during the final years of his life, even while he battled the symptoms of scleroderma, a terminal skin disease. The artist was initially bedridden, but he learned to cope with his condition by sitting at a large drawing table instead of standing at an easel (fig. 1). He produced 25 works in 1936, a number which quickly jumped to 264 in 1937, 489 in 1938, and over 1,200 in 1939. Klee wrote to his son Felix, “Productivity is accelerating in range and at a highly accelerated tempo; I can no longer entirely keep up with these children of mine. They run away with me. There is a certain adaptation taking place, in that drawings preponderate. Twelve hundred items in 1939 is really something of a record performance” (quoted in F. Klee, Paul Klee: His Life and Work in Documents, New York, 1962, p. 72)

The present work displays the concisely rendered graphic elements and simplified colors that comprise the formal vocabulary of the artist’s late style. Klee has used strong black lines to structure an underlying field of irregular areas of flatly applied colors. Matthias Barmann has suggested that the artist’s stylistic transition during this period stemmed in part from his declining health: “Tracing the effects of scleroderma and its specific symptoms is complex, since these, apart from affecting his work on the physiological level, had psychological repercussions even down to the emergence of certain stylistic characteristics. His reduced, sign-like repertoire gave Klee, who was aware of how little time remained to him, a spontaneous outlet for his enormous creative urge. Also the archaic traits of the ‘bar-writing’ characteristic especially of the very last paintings my have represented a productive reaction to his restricted mobility” (in Paul Klee: Fulfillment in the Late Work, Hanover, 2003, p. 15) …”

Related literature: The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2003, vol. 7, p. 330, no. 7208 (illustrated).

Zeng Fanzhi’s painting “MASK SERIES 99-A-2″ was sold for $993,000 hammer price on Nov 14, 2007 in Sotheby’s New York auction.

From the auction catalog’s note:
“Zeng Fanzhi is recognized as one of the foremost Contemporary Chinese painters of the post-1989 generation. In 1994, Zeng began his Mask series, in which people’s faces are hidden behind the open gaze and wide grins of a mask. The main purpose of the façade is to conceal feeling, and it is hard not to read the artificiality of the covered faces as an allegory of cynical politeness in a society experiencing constant transformation. Mask Series 99 A-2 from 1999 is a classic example of Zeng’s genuine ability to render allegorical imagery, whose content most often is intuited from symbolic forms. In this particular painting we see two men, dressed in identical suits, each raising a glass of red wine toward the viewer. The masks they wear are identical, so there is a loss of individuality; the only distinct difference between them concerns their clothing, since the figure on the left wears a formal shirt and tie, while the figure on the right is dressed in a blue crew shirt.

–Jonathan Goodman”

More information about Zeng at the Saatchi Gallery

The nine-strand necklace that once belonged to Umm Kulthoum sold for $1,385,000 in April in Dubai, which is over ten times the pre-auction estimate announced by Christie’s. See Bloomberg’s post on the Dubai art auction market.

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) was recently promised the ultra rare McLaren F1 LM that’s been sitting at McLaren headquarters for over a decade if he sweeps Formula 1 titles this year. The McLaren F1 LM is valued at a lofty $4,000,000.

Hamilton is currently 9 points shy of Kimi (Ferrari) for the F1 Driver’s title.

9 days left from the Ferrari F50 auction on eBay. The car is listed for $985,000 and 5 offers were rejected so far. I will update this post after the auction is over with the final going price if any.

According to Wikipedia, only 349 was made, so this is truly a collector car.

Marketed as the world’s most expensive cell phone, the Goldvish ‘Le million’ PIECE UNIQUE limited edition communicator made it to the Guiness Book of World Records as “The world’s most expensive cellular phone” with its 1 million EURO price tag.

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