The Diamond Christmas Tree
For just about every holiday the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo comes up with something lavishly excessive. For Christmas the Japanese department store is offering a Christmas tree with 400 diamonds. The tree doesn't look like any traditional tannenbaum, it is a small tower of preserved roses with 100 carats of diamonds from southern Africa and Australia. The tree sells for 200.7 million yen (around $1.8 million) and comes with the matching little red teddy bear. The tree is based on a design by Parisian flower boutique Claude Quinquaud and looks to contain bracelets, earrings, and butterfly pins as well as a necklace on the teddy bear.
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Sarah Gilbert Nov 14th 2007 11:16AM
Deidre - I'm a reporter and keen to get in touch with you for a story. Mail me at sarahgilbert@hotmail.com if you can. Sarah.
Fred Parkhurst Nov 20th 2007 3:26AM
This is the typical have more money then you know what to do with it. Just think of the hungry children that could feed and clothe in that country,what the corrupt goverment didn't steal. It kills me people flaunting things like this and there so many people hungry.