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Timmy Woods Eiffel Tower Crystal Clutch, Handbag of the Day

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The Eiffel Tower Clutch by Timmy Woods looks more like a decorative piece for your home than a bag that you could wear. Part quirky, part charming, and completely extravagant, this Eiffel Tower replica is certainly eye catching. Handmade from acacia wood and features a silk cord handle, it is excessively adorned with Swarovski crystals that give off a breathtaking and shimmering glow as though you were seeing the Eiffel Tower for yourself in the evening. Well, perhaps that may be a stretch. Nonetheless, for a mere $4,714, you can have a Parisian landmark hanging from your arm. Price: $4,714.

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The Eiffel Suite Debuts at the New Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan in Paris

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

When you're in Paris, you want a room with a view -- and as of today, you've got a new option. The Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan, a boutique 48 room hotel, opens in the 16th arrondissement.

There are ten suites in the hotel, five have clear views of that little structure everyone gets so excited about, La Tours Eiffel, which celebrates its 120th anniversary today. But the room with the best view is the Eiffel Suite, pictured here. The modern stark-white design by François Champsaur was intended to contrast with the 19th century building structure, and it's also a pleasing backdrop for what's outside. The 430 square foot, one-bedroom suite has private access to the hotel's swimming pool and hammam, and runs €615 Euro a night.

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Another Eiffel Tower Staircase Up For Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

Last year, a piece of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase shocked bidders at an auction by going for over $216,000 when it was only estimated to sell for $29,000-$44,000. This year at Sotheby's sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design in Paris on November 26, another section of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower is up for sale. This piece, marked as number 15 has remained in the same collection since the sale of the first 20 pieces staged by Ader-Picard-Tajan in Paris in 1983. The 12-foot-high section is estimated at €40,000-60,000 ($52,500-$78,800). Given the general decrease in ebullience over last year, I'd be surprised if this one cracked the $100,000 mark.

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Businessman Buys Eiffel Tower Staircase

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

Recently we heard that a section of staircase from the Eiffel tower, the last section actually, was going to be auctioned off and was expected to go for somewhere around $29,000-$44,000. Boy, who ever predicted those amounts was WAY off.

The auction took place on the 19th of this month and the old rusty chunk of the Eiffel Tower ended up closing at over $200,000 ($216,600 to be exact). The winning bidder was a Dutch entrepreneur named Erik Kurvers, who also happens to be the president of a Dutch basketball team aptly named the EiffelTowers.

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The Eiffel Tower Gets The Star Chef Treatment

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels

It's been my experience that restaurants with an amazing view are a mixed bag. Some are nothing special, assuming that you aren't there for the food as much as you are for the view, others go all out. The Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower takes a move into the latter category with the announcement that star chef Alain Ducasse will be opening the newly updated restaurant next month. The restaurant has a view of Paris from the second level of the tower. The challenge for Ducasse was to create a restaurant that both tourists and locals would love. He also had to deal with the unusual requirements of the setting including furniture that met the tower's weight limits and a kitchen that cannot use gas that would produce flames.

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Eiffel Tower Piece up for Auction

by Sandy Maple (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

When the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889, the only way up was via a 1,911-step staircase. Gustave Eiffel himself climbed those stairs to inaugurate the monument at the site of the World's Fair in Paris. In 1983, the staircase was removed and cut into 24 pieces which were then auctioned off to museums and collectors. If you didn't get one then, now is your chance. A piece of that staircase is being auctioned at Hotel Drouot auction house on November 19. The 14-foot section once linked the second and third levels on the monument and is expected to fetch between $29,000 and $44,000.

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