While riding the Metro home from work the other day, I picked up a ForbesLife magazine and was excited because I had something to read on the train. What I didn’t know was in that magazine, both the designers of my model bath tub, engagement and wedding rings (which will be given to me by the prospective love of my life) were highlighted this month. This was a “special issue” entitled Handmade Luxury, that featured beautiful goods and the artists who created them.

In an article titled “One Man’s Quarry”, the bathtub of my dreams was revealed. David Luster, owner and creator of Advent Design International, created a business out of making luxury bathtubs using exotic stones. Some of them go for as much as $40,000, can weigh more than 1,400 pounds, and can take more than 300 hours to make – The outcome is esqusite!

The bathtubs are engineered to fit the shape of the human body perfectly, and to offer a spa like treatment like no other in the comfort of your own home. I imagine if I owned one of these tubs that coming home from work would have a whole new meaning.

Also included in this edition, was an article that covered an Italian goldsmith by the name of Orlando Orlandini. This jewelry maker was no ordinary “bobble and banger”. His painstaking techniques had many calling him pazzo, meaning “nuts” in Italian. His craziness, however, brought to life beautiful pieces of jewelry made from gold one would not ever think possible.

In fact the article mentioned that in 2000, Orlandini won the Gold Virtuosi International Jewellery Design Award for a shawl of “interlocking gold rings that diminish in diameter as the collar climbs the neck”, as stated by ForbesLife’s Joushua Levine. Given that description, and according to one of his most loyal customers, the clientele consists mostly of people comfortable in their own skin. Hopefully in my near future, wedding bells will be ringing and I will be sporting one of Orlandini’s striking pieces.