Are you sick of hearing about Brad and Angelina yet? I hope not, because I've got some more "news" on the Brad Pitt front for you. According to Bloomberg [1], Brad Pitt was in Switzerland on Tuesday at Art Basel, an annual international contemporary art exhibition which has been pegged [2] "the Olympics of the art world." After being chauffered there in a BMW [3], he snapped up two Max Lamb [4] Bronze Poly Chairs ($25,000) and the Family Lamp by Atelier van Lieshout [5], made of foam and reinforced fiberglass, the Cinderella Table [6] ($293,000) by Dutch designer Jeroen Verhoeven, made of a solid block of Carrara marble, and the Silver Sky rug [7] ($175/sq. ft.) by Colombian designer Jorge Lizarazo, woven from aluminum thread. At the very least, Pitt's little shopping spree, (perhaps not coincidentally the day before Angelina's birthday) cost him a cool $500,000 [8]. But, we know Brad and Angelina have a new house to furnish [9], and Brad's interest in design and architecture is no secret, so this comes as no surprise. I've got to give it to him; he does have a good eye . . . the birch version of the Cinderella table sits in The Collection of New York's MoMA [10]. Perhaps, Brad picked up the contemporary art as inspiration for the new building he's designing in Dubai [11]?
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