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The World's Top Luxury Houses

The latest volume in teNeues' tantalizing Luxury series is entitled Luxury Houses: Top of the World. As we've noted before, the luxe publisher's Top of the World titles reflect the very best the globe has to offer. This book is not simply a showcase of the world's most extravagant estates, however; rather, it showcases the dwellings of those who have the luxury to build exactly what and where they want. All of the residences pictured feature "stunning settings, sumptuous materials, and sophisticated architectural detailing and interiors," and each "offers a unique perspective on what's possible if both money and taste abound." The cover, above, features the Samsara villa in Phuket, Thailand, designed around an infinity pool with incredible ocean views.

Gallery: World Class Luxury Houses

Cape Schank House, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia

Beuth Residence, West Hollywood, California

Tags: Architecture, teNeues, Thailand

Luxury Toys: Top of the World

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Filed under: Books

The latest ultra-luxe title from top-drawer German publisher teNeues aims to encompass the world's most exclusive, expensive and elusive objects in various categories. Luxury Toys: Top of the World is of course a lavish and lavishly-photographed coffee table book giving a deserving treatment to it subject. In it the world's "most treasured and decadent belongings" are on display, from megayachts to opulent mansions and custom-made timepieces to exotic supercars, all "truly indulgent prized-possessions that will dazzle even the most discriminating billionaire." The book is divided into the following chapters: Art, Personal Luxuries (including watches and cell phones), Modern Cars, Vintage Cars, Motor Yachts, Sailing Yachts, Ultimate Homes and Luxury Air Travel. Shown on the cover above is the $150 million, 289-ft. Maltese Falcon, the world's largest privately-owned sailing yacht.

Tags: teNeues, Yacht

The Most Brilliant British Fashion Photographer
You've Never Heard Of

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Filed under: Books

We look at lots of photo books in this line of work, but we've rarely been as impressed by one as much as teNeues' massive new Tim Walker monograph. The fact that the Brit fashion photographer's name is not as well known as that of some lesser talents must surely be corrected by the barrage of surreal, sublime images in Tim Walker: Pictures. A former assistant of Richard Avedon's, the 38-year-old obviously learned from the master, but he could hardly be called an Avedon imitator with his flair for elaborate, dreamlike tableaux. An exhibit of Walker's work opened in London last month, but for the $125 this vibrant volume costs you can be transported much further afield. No expense was spared for the extravagant British Vogue holiday shoot pictured above; the magazine even bought the vintage Rolls-Royce in case Walker had to destroy it in order to get the photo just right, as he never uses digital manipulation in his work. See the gallery for more.

[via Men.Style]

Gallery: Tim Walker's Wonderland

Tags: British Vogue, BritishVogue, Fashion, Fashion photography, FashionPhotography, Models, Richard Avedon, RichardAvedon, Rolls-Royce, teNeues, Tim Walker, TimWalker

New Cool Hotels: Italy, Spain and Spas

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Holiday Guides, Books

Regular Luxist readers will already be familiar with the luxurious, oversized books put out by German publisher teNeues. Not all of their top-drawer coffee table titles are the size of actual coffee tables, however. The travel sized "Cool Hotels" series has all the appeal of the deluxe editions with the added bonus that you can actually take them with you on your journey. They've just released three new additions to the stable in time for summer: Cool Hotels Italy, Cool Hotels Spain, and Cool Hotels Spa & Wellness. At $24.95 apiece, they're considerably less expensive as well. Pictured on the cover of the Italy edition above is the incredibly chic Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amista in Verona, run by the Byblos fashion empire. See the gallery for more stylish vacation spots.

Gallery: Cool Hotels Italy, Spain & Spas

Spas cover showing Amanyara, British West Indies.

Tags: Byblos, Byblos Art Hotel, ByblosArtHotel, Cool Hotels, CoolHotels, Hotels, Italian fashion, ItalianFashion, Italy, Spain, Spas, teNeues, Verona

The Coolest Restaurants in the World

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Filed under: Decor, Dining, Books

Photo courtesy of teNeues; cover image courtesy Tugu Hotels & Exotic Spas

We've written before about German publisher teNeues's amazing Luxury series; you should know that their Cool series is equally impressive. The latest title in the line, Cool Restaurants: Top of the World, features over 100 incredible eateries scattered around the globe. teNeues selects only the best of the best for their "Top of the World" titles, such as Bale Sutra, the restaurant located in a majestic 300-year-old Kang Xi period temple at the exotic Hotel Tugu in Bali, pictured here on the cover. While New York City has the highest concentration of cool restaurants in any urban locale, and the U.S.A. the most for a single country, Europe has many more continent-wise. Dubai is putting itself on the culinary design map as well, with an admirable showing of four restaurants included in the book - as many as the UK. See the gallery for a tour of some standouts.

Gallery: The World's Coolest Restaurants

Tags: Bali, Coffee table books, CoffeeTableBooks, Cool restaurants, CoolRestaurants, Dubai, Restaurants, teNeues

The World's Most Luxurious Private Landscapes

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Filed under: Estates, Garden, Books

The lush oases pictured in Luxury Private Gardens, the newest title in teNeues' brilliant Luxury Books series, veer between the pleasantly inspirational and oppressively beautiful. In other words, while looking at it made us want to rush outside and start planting things, it also made us despair of ever creating anything one tenth as attractive as the private paradises portrayed between its covers. Much better, we feel, to simply sit back, mix a drink, read the damned book and let someone else do the digging, pruning, weeding and whatnot. But we digress.

Even the most lavish gardens in these pages displaying "the highest standards of horticultural excellence" are founded on simplicity, the book assures us: "Stripped down to their bare essentials, they are like a well-cut couturier's gown - nothing but an utterly simple response to the unadorned landscape or the naked human body they are designed to fit." The incredible Villa d'Este in Lake Como, Italy (where part of Casino Royale was filmed) pictured on the cover, with its elegant, elaborate parterres doesn't exactly scream simplicity to us, but we could stare at it all day. See the gallery for a luxe garden tour.

Gallery: Luxury Private Gardens