The Steeple Times

Category: OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Luxury and the arts From houses to cars and from Hockney to van Dyck, a profile of the best and the worst

  • Plated V

    Plated V

    15 more of the best plates spotted by readers of ‘The Steeple Times’

     

    Continuing our series, below we feature 15 more unusual, laughable and entertaining number plates (more…)

  • Money park Mayfair

    Money park Mayfair

    Mayfair flat comes to the market for an astounding £5,130 per square foot

     

    If evidence were ever needed to show that “ultra prime” London property has become nothing other than a money park for “ultra high net worth individuals”, today it has been provided with the launch of an £18 million 3,059 square foot apartment on Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square. (more…)

  • Game, set and match

    Game, set and match

    One of Westchester County’s finest houses comes to the market

     

    Westchester is a gilded county. It’s a place that has variously been home to John D. Rockefeller, Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren, P. Diddy and Martha Stewart and one that the rich and famous adore. With the sale of a “modern-day masterpiece” created by the “noted architect” Ralph Mackin, one could now acquire one of “Westchester County’s grandest estates”. (more…)

  • An outworldly place

    An outworldly place

    Sarah Tucker visits Antarctica

     

    I was on the ship that didn’t get stuck in the ice at Christmas. In the wake of Prince Harry who trekked there and was airlifted back, I went via Patagonia and Buenos Aires (a phenomenal city where they genuinely dance in the streets and they miss their archbishop), to take myself and my son to see icebergs, penguins and whales for a white Christmas to outwhite all white Christmases. (more…)

  • Handeling a house

    Handeling a house

    One of Britain’s finest Queen Anne residences comes to the market

     

    On the market for the first time in 600 years, Grade I listed Malmesbury House in Salisbury, Wiltshire has rightly been described as a “jewel box” of a house. (more…)

  • As worldly as Whicker

    As worldly as Whicker

    1964 Bentley S3 Continental coupé to be auctioned by Bonhams

     

    The late Alan Whicker numbered amongst those to have owned a Bentley S3 Continental coupé and now a fine example is to be auctioned by Bonhams (more…)

  • Rolled by the Queen

    Rolled by the Queen

    A Land Rover formerly owned by the Queen comes to auction

     

    The Queen is a well-known lover of Land Rovers and is often seen driving them on her various estates. Now, with the forthcoming auction of 2002 Defender 110 TDS County that was previously used on her Sandringham estate at the Historics at Brooklands auction on 8th March, any ardent royalist has the opportunity to acquire one of her vehicles. (more…)

  • Venice sinks better than we do

    Venice sinks better than we do

    Sarah Tucker takes a trip to Venice

     

    I’ve just returned from the Londra Palace hotel in Venice (best hotel to stay there, forget what the guide books say). Central location and within walking distance of everything (which is good as in Venice you have to walk everywhere). You may get stampeded by raging Chinese tourists but apart from that, this hotel is superb. (more…)

  • A dictator’s dream

    A dictator’s dream

    50,000 square foot Utah mansion that would suit an exiled dictator or lottery lout

     

    Money and taste don’t necessarily go together and no more is this rule proven than in a $30 million (£18 million) Utah mansion (more…)

  • Fool’s gold

    Fool’s gold

    Claire Rubinstein attends a party but doesn’t strike gold

     

    The invite read: “Fashion Brands Viewing & Party At LFW – PRESS INVITE – must RSVP”. Surely, I thought, this must be something exclusive. (more…)