Paul Johnson Calderon reflects on the implications of the ‘street artist’ Same tagging a Jeff Koons in New York
By now, most of us have seen the video of my friend, the artist Christopher ‘Same’...
‘The Steeple Times’ chooses five of the best super-prime apartments currently on offer in Central London
Luxury apartments in London are ten a penny but few provide the truly spectacular space and facilities offered by the...
Gareth Southgate markets his £3.25 million Grade I listed Yorkshire home
Footballers are not generally noted for living in tasteful homes so it is somewhat surprising to find that the former England player turned Middlesborough...
Social network Knightsbridge Village celebrated its first anniversary with a party at Theo Fennell in London
On 7th October, Knightsbridge Village, an invitation only social network for the “discerning mothers of London’s most prestigious neighbourhoods”, celebrated...
Christie’s annual Multiplied fair is well worth a visit
October is the month when London’s art event calendar is busiest and aside from Frieze in Regent’s Park and PAD in Berkeley Square, there is also...
Britain’s tackiest car, a crystal covered Mercedes, sells for just under £155,000
A previous Wally of the Week, Daria Radionova, might not be such a fool after all given that she has just sold her...
Financier and fashion designer duo Pierre Lagrange and Roubi L’Roubi place their four floor £12.75 million penthouse on the market
Financier and co-founder of GLG Partners Pierre Lagrange and his fashion designer partner Roubi L’Roubi...
An opportunity to rent a ‘set’ in the ‘Paradise of Piccadilly’
Albany is a little known building off London’s Piccadilly that is akin to Manhattan’s smartest co-operative buildings in the way it is run. So...
Cheyne Walk home of Sol Campbell comes to the market for £25 million or £15,000 per week just as he takes on Labour’s proposed ‘mansion tax’
Sol Campbell will certainly get more than a ray...
‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry sells his Malibu hillside home
Actor Matthew Perry, most famous for his role in the cult series Friends, paid $6.55 million (£4.079 million) for his hillside home in Malibu, California is...
Reconfigured Lancashire estate for sale for £4.25 million
Businessman Martin Higginson and his wife Maggie have reversed what has happened to most English country estates in buying back properties and land around their Lancashire home,...
Another Lennox Gardens flat on a one year lease for sale for another extraordinary price
Last week, we reported on a bidding war that erupted on a one bedroom flat in Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge that...
An unfortunately named farm would certainly suit Uncle Monty
A rather unfortunately named farmstead could be the perfect accompaniment to the Rolls-Royce we featured yesterday that was driven by Uncle Monty in Withnail and I....
Rolls-Royce originally owned by playboy Nubar Gulbenkian and later used in “Withnail & I” for sale
The “flamboyantly bearded”, monocle wearing eccentric Nubar Gulbenkian (1896 – 1972) took up driving at the age of 65...
Lennox Gardens flat with just one year left on lease sells for £550,000
Indication of London’s somewhat bonkers property market has been illustrated in news that a one bedroom flat in Knightsbridge’s Lennox Gardens has...
Britain’s smallest £1 million home for sale
If you’re annoyed to have missed out on the one bedroomed flat on a one year lease that sold for £550,000 that we featured, we have another option...
A 2003 Bentley R-Type road racer is most definitely a car that would appeal to Toad of Toad Hall
Described as a “real road burner and hooligan’s toy”, a 2003 Bentley R-Type road racer built...
A double house on “the most politically significant rat-run in Britain” is for sale for £6.25 million
Described as “solid Tory” and “the most politically significant rat-run in Britain” in a 1995 article by Chris...
As J. Paul Getty’s grandson tries to sell his San Francisco home for $15.998 million, is this a sign that the area’s elite is changing?
In October last year, Vanity Fair described the Getty family as...
‘Country Life’ magazine hosts its first fair in London this weekend
This Saturday and Sunday marks the first Country Life Fair at Fulham Palace. In essence, it’ll be a mini version of the CLA Game...
The highlights of the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2014
On Tuesday, the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair in London opened with a champagne fuelled collectors’ preview and a reception to mark Butchoff Antiques revealing...
Russian student spends £20,000 covering her £25,000 Mercedes in Swarovski crystals and then wonders why she is mocked
The ‘Ramadan Rush’ may be over and the Arabs and their cars have left the streets of...
American lifestyle website Proper Kid Problems is a sartorial zeitgeist
We’ve previously featured a British website that celebrates red trouser wearing sorts and now we make an American sartorial zeitgeist our Website of the Week.
Proper...
Matthew Steeples reviews Chelsea townhouse hotel San Domenico House
San Domenico House is a hidden secret; a small hotel that’s physically minutes from the bustle of Sloane Square yet literally a world away from it.
Featuring...
1989 ‘Prince of Wales’ specification Aston Martin V8 Volante for sale for £450,000
In 1987, an Aston Martin V8 Volante was built to the personal specifications of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. It...
Stunning carmine red 1953 Jaguar XK120 roadster heads to auction at the RM Auctions Hershey sale
The final scene of the 1999 film Cruel Intentions sees Reese Witherspoon driving out of New York in a 1956...
Travelex founder puts the childhood home where Daphne du Maurier allegedly conducted two of her most illicit relationships on the market for £32 million
The best-selling author Daphne du Maurier had a relationship with her actor-manager...
Aston Martin to launch a new ‘super-sedan’ (but only to an elite few)
When Aston Martin brought out its ill-fated Cygnet in 2011, they initially made it only available to their existing customers. That strategy...
Legendary 1954 ‘Docker Daimler’ heads to auction
Sir Charles Dunstone recently took to the seas in his newly refurbished 65-metre yacht, the Shemara. The vessel, which dates to 1938, was once owned by the legendarily...
An analysis of the results of the Christie’s Out of the Ordinary and RM Auctions Battersea sales
Two September events that The Steeple Times has followed since their inceptions are the RM Auctions Battersea...
Salvage Europe sell part of Argentina’s contribution to the Exposition Universelle of 1889
To mark the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, between May and October 1889, Paris held a fair named the...
Daimler used by Churchill to star at RM Auctions Battersea sale
Between 1940 and 1950, the Daimler Motor Company loaned a 1939 Daimler DB18 drophead coupé bodied by the Carlton Carriage Company for special occasions....
