Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Crystal bathtub for £530,000, anyone?

If you are going to take time out of your busy schedule to enjoy a long and languorous bath, then you might as well do it in style.

This crystal bathtub is carved from a single block of the purest white rock crystal, quarried in the Amazon region of Brazil.


It is 7ft long and 2ft deep, and costs £530,000 for the bather who has everything.
The tub will be on show at Harrods in Knightsbridge until the end of July.

But for those who are thinking it is a one-of-a-kind bathroom accessory, it does have a sibling - cut from the same enormous ten-ton block of flawless crystal.

The block was discovered in 2006, extracted and transported to Italy intact.


The first tub was snapped up by a Russian magnate in 2008 for an eye-watering £567,502.

Both were sculpted with diamond cuts and left partially rough to expose the natural beauty of the crystal - and each is unique in its design.


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