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This is how a $6 million home theater looks like

elutzik — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:02:02 +0000

This eccentric home theater belongs to Jeremy Kipnis, a music engineer, producer and a classical music lover. I won’t tell you all the technical details, but i will just point out the 8.8 channels of surround sound, 16 subwoofers and video resolution four times as tight as 1080p and an 18-by-10-foot Stewart Snowmatte “laboratory-grade” screen. It’s amazing, I can only imagine the experience of watching a movie in that home theater…

Partial Equipment List for the Kipnis Studio Standard Beta CinE:

Picture Elements:
Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector
Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen

Players and Sources:
Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player
Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player
JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder
SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total)
Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player
Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player

Surround Processing and Decoding:
Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (13)

Amplification:
Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2)
McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30)
Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3)

Speakers:
Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8)
MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)

Stars show off their dressing rooms

elutzik — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:24:38 +0000

Have you ever wondered how does Miley Cirus or Christina Aguilera’s dressing rooms looks like? Or maybe you have a favorite star and would like to get inspired for your own? Well, I have found on instyle.com some celebrity dressing rooms and they are unbelievable. I’ve noticed that the most common thing in all of their dressers are the tons of shoes. Maybe when i’ll have the change of owning my own big dressing room I will get inspired as well.

Miley Cirus

"I wanted it to be very girlie and fashiony, kind of like a boutique," says the budding style star of her dressing room, in her North Hollywood home. "My mom assembled the chandelier and put on every single one of the crystals," says Miley. "And the design of it is the same as the printed ones on the walls! The hot pinks—the blacks—we love color!"

Christina Aguilera

"Everything on my shoe wall is grouped by designer—Louboutin, McQueen, YSL—all in their own little family," says Aguilera. "And there’s room for boots up top."

Olivia Wilde

About her 19th-century mirrored vanity: "It’s from the South of France and has never been restored"

Fergie

"I designed it myself, so there’s a boudoir-boutique feel."

Eva Longoria

"Tony loves me in Uggs. He says, ‘Wear your Hugs, honey’—that’s how he pronounces it with his French accent."

Nicky Hilton

"My Manolos are together, Chanels are together, Louboutins together."

Kimora Lee Simmons

"I wanted my closet to look like a boutique. I’m very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It’s always in great order."

Paula Abdul

"A comfortable pair of jeans, a great belt, and a leather jacket is all I need."

Mariah Carey

"I have about 1,000 pairs of shoes. But lots are in storage"

Jamie Lynn Sigler

"For years I have not been able to find anything in my closet," says Sigler. "Now I see all my clothes shoes and accessories, even some stuff I completely forgot I had .. with the tags still on them!"

Maria Menounos

"I hate shopping. Really. I used to go to the mall once a year and just stock up on white T-shirts, tanks, socks and necessities. Now I need nice clothes for my career."

Oversized pebble pillows

elutzik — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:10:23 +0000

Have you ever imagined that stones could be comfortable and that you would take great pleasure in relaxing on them? Well these are not actual stones, but at a first sight you could swear they are real. In fact this is a collection from Smarin, a French design company by designer Stephanie called “Livinstones”. I’m sure your entire family would like it, especially your children.

The pebbles are available in various sizes, shapes and earth tone colors.

Bricks & Mortar sofa

Bogdan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:30:55 +0000

The Bricks & Mortar series of chairs and sofas was created by the British Artist Richard Woods and the designer Sebastian Wrong for Established and Sons. The whole idea that stands behind this amazing piece of furniture is the irony of combining the extreme comfort of the chair in comparison to the hardness of the print.

The size and layout of the bricks set the scale of the seat and sofa, and forced the mortar lines to correspond the geometry of the object.

Revolving lounge chairs

Bogdan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:49:34 +0000

Designer Åke Axelsson created this set of chairs, called Zenit for the swiss company Garsnas, that is available in

moulded ash or oak (natural or lacquer). The base plate is made of satin-chromed steel, and the upholstered seat is covered in fabric or leather inside and outside if you’d like so.

This would go nice in every lounge coffee or teahouse, seaside terraces and in modern home lounge rooms, why not, combined with a minimalist table in front of last gen TV sets.

Ice sculpture pool tables

elutzik — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:56:00 +0000

If you like playing pool and luxury and you don’t know how to combine the two of them, we have the perfect solution for you: a pool table completely made of ice.

The pool tables are manufactured by Randy Finch and Derek Maxfield, two artists from Michigan who have won a lot of ice sculpturing competitions.

If you want one you can order it here and it’s about $4500.