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...But it does: the designer’s reimagining of the interiors as a luxurious yacht club lend this 40-room hotel an intimate yet upscale glamour, making you feel you’ve been invited somewhere rather exclusive....
...In this version of London, Soho House members club has turned Richard Rogers’ former Lloyds Insurance building into a multistorey, 24-hour nightclub....
...He tells me about a recent 70th birthday party he attended on a private yacht....
...Yuga Labs raked in about $285mn selling virtual plots of land over the weekend, according to Reuters, as the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club sought build its popular but exclusive tokens into a broader...
...In early February, I met Austin at London’s Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall....
...Billion dollar boredom NFT pioneer Yuga Labs, the start-up behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, is in talks with Andreessen Horowitz for a financing deal that would give the company a $4bn-5bn valuation...
...Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks are two of the best known examples, but there are dozens of other NFTs in the space....
...When I visited OpenSea recently, Bored Ape Yacht Club ranked first in trading volume....
...They represent what the Coast Guard would call a “private signal,” since they’re neither a national ensign or a yacht club pennant, which are used to show origin....
...An hour’s drive from the upmarket nightclubs and golf courses of Palm Springs, the Salton Sea offered a yacht club, motels, water-skiing, and — after the waters were stocked with shad, orangemouth corvina...
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...There is even Soho Farmhouse, a branch of the artsy London members’ club, complete with luxury yurts on estate land just outside Great Tew, employing 430....
...That price includes a butler, chef and a chauffeured Mercedes V Class to zip guests around the island....
...The deal he had negotiated took three second-tier carmakers — Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi — into the elite club producing 10 million vehicles a year, in an industry selling 92 million vehicles overall...
...Now 60, Coleridge cuts a figure of louche elegance that tempers the refinement of the gentleman’s club with a racier brand of swagger....
...A protest called “V-day” — V being for vaffanculo, the Italian equivalent of “fuck off” — drew 80,000 people to one event....
...But this was offset by rises in the cost of theatre tickets, seats at top sporting events and members’ club access....
...Something about contemporary art echoes pyramid schemes – clubs that make money by recruiting evermore members....
...“I did go to the Chelsea v Leeds [1970] cup final. And the replay. I went to the first final with my mother, and to the replay with my dad.”...
...Prices for fine wine, art, yacht charter and other symbols of high living declined by 1.6 per cent in the year to April, compared with a rise of 6 per cent in 2010-11, according to an index of exclusive...
...Rau started sailing when her mother, herself a sailor, took her to Royal Madras Yacht Club, at the age of 11, leading to her first major competitive victory in the Optimist class....
...Mr Abramovich also spends time in London, as owner of Chelsea Football Club, but is still one of Russia’s richest men, valued by Forbes at $13.4bn....
...In the 1560s, Albrecht V of Bavaria created his celebrated Kunstkammer to flaunt his collection and lord it over other European princes....
...The sports and recreation category, which includes a Purdey shotgun, a day’s grouse shooting, polo club membership, yacht charter and membership of Wentworth golf club, was also up 2.1 per cent....
...luxury motor yacht Enterprise V (offered by Edmiston in January at $19.9m, reduced by $2.6m)....
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