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  1. Class of Florida

    The Most Palm Beach Thing About BMW's Armored 7 Series Is That You'd Never Know

    BMW has built a prototype 7 Series with armor in it, and the whole idea is that no one looking at the car would guess. The sedan keeps its o…

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    Jane Fonda Was Only a Tenant, but the Whitley Heights House Still Carries Her Name at $2 Million

    A house in Whitley Heights, up in the Hollywood Hills, has come to market asking $2 million, and its most famous occupant never held the dee…

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    Up Front on Delta, the Bourbon Is Now Blanton's

    Delta has reworked what it serves in Delta One, the carrier's top cabin, from the plates to the wine list to the bar cart. Among the new arr…

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    Twenty-Five Years In, Peter Millar Reaches for the Soft Stuff

    Peter Millar is marking its first twenty-five years in business the way a Naples golfer marks a cool January morning: with cashmere. The bra…

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    The Ferrari That Could Sell for Nearly Six Times Its Sticker

    A 2022 Ferrari Daytona SP3 heads to the block on October 31 under the RM Sotheby's banner, and the estimate attached to it runs to $13 milli…

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    The Dells Are Letting Boston Go, and the Opening Number Is $6.5 Million

    Michael and Susan Dell have put their penthouse atop Boston's Millennium Tower on the auction block. Bidding is set to open at $6.5 million,…

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    Coconut Grove Puts Six Bedrooms and a Full-Circle Terrace on the Market for $14 Million

    The listing of the week comes from Mr. C Residences Coconut Grove, where a condo with six bedrooms is asking $14 million. The apartment runs…

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    Messi and Alcaraz Now Share a Shipyard

    The world's most famous soccer player has taken delivery of an 88-foot Sunreef catamaran, the builder's Ultima 88. He will not have the mode…

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    On Alki Beach, the House Wears Its Neighbors on the Outside

    Out on Alki Beach in West Seattle, a residence has put the native creatures of its own shoreline across its exterior, in a painted mural tha…

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    A Hall of Famer's Former Address Hits the Market at $35 Million

    The house Jerry Rice once called home is for sale, and the asking price is $35 million. The estate sits in Atherton, in the Bay Area, and wa…

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    This Season's Most Serious Jewelry Room Isn't on Worth Avenue. It's in Arkansas.

    An Arkansas museum has handed its galleries over to the archive of a famous jewelry maker, and the pieces stay up until next March. These ar…

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    Palm Beach Would Know This House on Sight: A 1920s Spanish Colonial in Los Angeles Asks $17 Million

    Anyone who has driven the lanes between Worth Avenue and the lake will recognize the vocabulary at once: stucco, tile, arches, and the kind …

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    A Modigliani You Can Walk Around, at a Price Even Palm Beach Would Notice

    Phillips is bringing a Modigliani sculpture to the block with an estimate that reaches $35 million. Sculpture by Modigliani is not a thing o…

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    The Chef Who Tells Time Three Ways

    Eric Ripert has opened the watch box, and Robb Report brought a camera along. In an installment of its newly launched on-camera series, the …

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    Two Rooms, One Pollock, $2 Million: The Manhattan Listing Florida Will Read Twice

    A pair of rooms in Manhattan's West Village has come on the market asking $2 million, and the selling point is not square footage. Jackson P…

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    Kim Jones Is Putting His Own Name Back on the Label, and Refusing to Pick a Rack

    Kim Jones is reviving the house that carries his own name, and the second act arrives with a looser brief. Rather than sorting clothes into …

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    The McEnroes Are Keeping One Paradise Cove House. The Other Can Be Yours for $35 Million.

    John McEnroe and Patty Smyth have put one of their two Malibu beachfront homes on the market, asking $35 million. The house sits in Paradise…

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    Sirena Put the Owner's Private Terrace Where Nobody Thinks to Look: Up Front

    Sirena's new 138-foot Sirena 42 keeps its best outdoor space at the forward end of the boat, a private terrace for the owner that climbs acr…

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    A Pink Diamond That Stayed Out of Sight for Seventy Years Is Expected to Command $18 Million

    A pink diamond weighing 24 carats, set in a ring, is expected to sell for about $18 million. For more than seven decades it has been held pr…

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    A Lake Worth Alternative, With Fewer Neighbors: Two Dozen Cottages on Lake Keowee

    Old Edwards Reserve has unveiled Laurel Village, a set of 24 cottages on the shores of Lake Keowee in South Carolina. Twenty-four is a numbe…

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    Fifty Years of Defining Luxury, and Florida Still Can't Agree on It

    Robb Report has turned fifty, and it is marking the occasion with an anniversary issue that looks back at what luxury has meant since the ma…

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    Automakers Are Running Out of Words Before Florida Runs Out of Driveways

    According to Robb Report, carmakers are finding it harder and harder to come up with a good name for a new model. Most of the strong words s…

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    Corduroy Gets a Seat at the Table, From Worth Avenue to Fifth Avenue South

    A suit cut in corduroy now earns a place in a serious wardrobe, according to one writer who calls it their preferred way to look sharp witho…

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    Last Call on the McLaren 750S, From Palm Beach to Naples

    McLaren has opened the closing window on its 750S supercar, and anyone who wants one built to their own specification now has a limited time…

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    Somewhere Between Worth Avenue and Port Royal, a Wall Is About to Make Room for a Rothko

    A single collection valued at about $100 million is going on the block at Sotheby's, and the roll call is the sort that makes a Palm Beach d…

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    Flea Is Offering His La Crescenta Compound Again, Now at $5.8 Million

    Flea, the bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, has returned his hillside home outside Los Angeles to the market with a new figure attached. The…

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    Jefferson's Reserve Now Pours Stronger, and Tells You Its Age

    The Jefferson's Reserve bottle that anchors so many back bars from Worth Avenue to Fifth Avenue South has been quietly reworked. The bourbon…

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    Custom Line's New 128-Footer Settles the Oldest Argument on the Florida Coast: Inside or Out

    Custom Line has produced the first of its Saetta 128, a 128-foot planing yacht whose upper salon can be thrown open to the air in its entire…

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    A Half-Century of the Good Life, Counted Up in 74 Entries

    Robb Report, the magazine that has spent five decades cataloging what the well-heeled drive, wear, sail and collect, is marking its fiftieth…

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    Seven Nights Is the Buy-In: A 212-Foot Schooner Is Taking Guests on a Five-Year Run

    The classic schooner Atlantic, all 212 feet of her, is leaving the dock for a voyage planned to last five years, and she is taking paying gu…

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    A Honda Worth the Valet Spot in Palm Beach

    The long-promised second life of the Honda NSX has arrived, courtesy of JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina. The car wears all-new coachwork done…

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    Nine Million Dollars on the Hudson, for Floridians Who Keep a Foot in Manhattan

    Plenty of Palm Beach and Naples households keep a Manhattan address for the months when Florida gets quiet, and the newest one to watch sits…

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    Roughly One in Five Serious Collectors Now Asks the Algorithm Before the Advisor

    The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting finds that 22 percent of wealthy collectors have brought software into the hunt, leaning o…

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    Out West, $32 Million Buys the One Thing No Florida Waterfront Can Offer: Height

    A four-bedroom house on Belvedere Island, in Marin County north of San Francisco, is for sale at $32 million, and what it is really selling …

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    A Legorreta in Brentwood Asks $30 Million, and Nobody Has Ever Bought It Before

    The late attorney and philanthropist Arthur Greenberg had Ricardo Legorreta design him a house in Brentwood back in the 1990s, and he called…

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    Porsche's Next Supercar Shows Its Face Oct. 15, Just Ahead of Season

    Porsche has confirmed a new supercar is coming, and it has put a date on the first look. The car, a concept the company calls the Mission S,…

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    The Record Now Has a North Palm Beach Address

    Larry Ellison, who co-founded Oracle, is asking a record $165 million for his estate on the water in North Palm Beach. He bought it in 2021 …

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    Dolly Parton Once Called It Home. Now the Hollywood Hills House Has Its Own Path to Calm.

    A Hollywood Hills house that once belonged to Dolly Parton is for sale at $8 million. The house dates to the 1970s, but it has since been re…

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    Palm Beach Pours Bubbles, Naples Pours Agave. Clase Azul Found a Bottle for Both.

    Clase Azul has added a new bottle to its Día de Muertos line, and part of its time in wood was spent in barrels that once held Champagne. Th…

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    A Connecticut Pond Built to Olympic Scale, and Up for Sale After Thirty Years

    Floridians know water. We have the Atlantic off Palm Beach, the Gulf off Naples, Biscayne Bay off Miami, and a backyard pool on nearly every…

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    Where You Sleep Becomes Where You Have Dinner on the Wonder FX

    The Wonder FX has a bed that folds up into the wall, and once it's put away, the same space works as a sitting room or a place to eat. You g…

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    Coral Gables Makes Its Case at $148 Million, With a Chapel and the Bay at the Door

    At $148 million, a waterfront compound in Coral Gables is aiming for a number the neighborhood has never seen. Locally, the city's top-dolla…

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    A Grand Tourer Built From a Blank Page, and Florida Has Plenty of Road for It

    Jaguar's Type 01, a battery-electric GT, has made its debut, and the people who engineered and designed it have talked about what it took to…

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    A Sculptor's Own Eye Goes to the Block, $100 Million Strong

    According to the New York Times, a collection of paintings by masters old and modern, valued at about $100 million, is coming up for sale, a…

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    "Jodi" the Nanotyrannus Is the Rarest Guest Any Florida Collection Could Hope to Host

    A Nanotyrannus skeleton named Jodi is going to auction, and the price expected for it is about $9 million. The bigger news for anyone who co…

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    The Corvette ZR1X Is Bidding Its Way Toward Twice Sticker, and Still Undercuts the Imports

    A Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X has gone to auction, and the bidding is approaching double what the car costs new from the dealer. Even at that fi…

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    A Cy Young Winner's House on the Puget Sound Is for Sale at $9.8 Million

    Floridians tend to picture a ballplayer's house with palm trees out front and a spring training complex down the road. Félix Hernández, the …

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    A 138-Foot Yacht That Lets the Itinerary Choose the Power, Which Is a Very Naples Way to Travel

    The GX42 is a new yacht that runs 138 feet and carries a hybrid plant. Its notable trait is a considered one: it decides where its power com…

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    A Bourbon With a Rye Drinker's Heart, From Palm Beach Bar Carts to Naples Lanais

    Russell's Reserve has a new bourbon out, and Eddie Russell, who leads the distilling there, is pointing drinkers straight to the spice. By h…

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    In Charleston, Even the Swimming Pool Has a Pedigree

    Floridians tend to treat a backyard pool the way they treat sunscreen: so standard that nobody brings it up. In Naples it's assumed, in Palm…

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    Floridians Know a Good Beach. This One in Tiburon Belongs to a Single House

    In Florida, a house is judged first by how it meets the water, and only then by everything else. Miami wants the show, Palm Beach wants the …

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    Laphroaig 15 Returns, and This Time It Stays

    Laphroaig's 15-year Scotch is available again after ten years out of the lineup, and the house has made it a standing bottling rather than a…

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    Goldman Sachs Gives the Watch Box a Wall Street Reading

    Goldman Sachs has published its first guide to collecting fine timepieces and jewelry, with the firm's own recommendations for putting a col…

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    The Gas Charger Is the Buyers' Clear Pick

    Dodge's gasoline Charger is selling about fifteen cars for every one of its electric twin, and in the most recent three-month stretch its sa…

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    The Other Half of the Season: A $14 Million Park Avenue Apartment Built to Feel Like a Whole House

    A $14 million apartment has come up for sale on Park Avenue, seven floors above one of New York's most famous streets. The building dates fr…

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    A Diver's Watch With a Villain in the Room, Fit for Waters From Palm Beach to Naples

    Omega has a new group of Seamaster Diver 300M watches, and this time the story behind it is James Bond and Spectre, the agent and the shadow…

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    The 42-Foot Tender That Would Rather Be the Yacht

    TYKUN has introduced a 42-foot tender as the new top of its range, and it is built to be two boats at once: it has the polish of a proper mo…

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    The Countach Engine Inside a Car Even Collectors Have to Look Up

    Monte Carlo Automotive made just 16 Centenaires, and one is now headed to auction with a possible price of $1.35 million. Under the bodywork…

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    A Kentucky Pour Worth Bringing South of the Line

    Brown-Forman has released a new bourbon called Kentucky Boy, and it's a blend. Into one bottle go three whiskeys from the company's own top …

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    Worth Booking the Flight North: Tom Blyth Takes the Stage in Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" on Broadway

    British screen actor Tom Blyth will make his first appearance on a Broadway stage this fall, starring in a new production of Aaron Sorkin's …

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