Narrator pursuits car critic Hannah Elliott has a tough job. She gets to drive the most luxurious, hightech cars for a living. Hannah has an eye for the best of the best and says that a turbocharged ferrari grantor will get you there fast. When you hear the word ferrari, you think fast, sleak, risque, but you dont think practical. And ferrari is not the first car you think to take to pick up your christmas tree, but that is exactly what i did. I drove a ferrari gtc two hours to an orchard and farm. I wanted to test out ferrari practicality. Welcome to barclays tree farm. I am Hannah Elliott. Lets find your perfect tree. What kind of trees are these . Douglas fur and norway spruce. This is great. This is the one . I like it. It is good. Ok. Lets do it. There is not exactly and a enough room in the back for a tree, but it has all you need. It is a fourseat hatchback that ferrari debuted last year. Plus, it has something really helpful, practical even. It is higher off the ground than a standard ferrari. Getting in and out was not the usual awkward struggle i have with sports cars. I would even call this shockingly drivable. This is a perfect ferrari for people who love to drive. And i know that sounds crazy because it is a hatchback but the thing about the car is that it has a v12, 680 horsepower engine on allwheeldrive. That means it has the beating heart of a ferrari track car that will compete with anything from lamborghini and mclaren built into this package that is totally functional. And an elaborate traction system thrustrrari calls vectoring that smooths out the cars response to unstable conditions. I had this buying holiday decorations at target. We have the tree on the top. I had this in snow, slush, and ice, and it performed so well. Inside, the front feels like a very luxurious cockpit, which makes sense. After all the word means luxury in italian. The back is spacious enough for a couple of adults, and it roars from 062 in 3. 4 seconds. Top speed is 208, so what gives . Why did ferrari make a practical car . Well, to hold on to its loyal most loyal fans. There are rumors that ferrari will unveil an suv in 2018, but until then it hopes to keep ferrari customers in the family with this car. So hang on ferrari fans, maybe santa willay be leave a prancing pony suv in the driveway. Until then, this will do. Narrator is there such a thing as a perfect car . Pursuits car critic hani elliott tells us the best coupe of the year is mercedes and gtr, and when it comes to supercars, nothing beats the lamborghini. Of course, these beauties dont come cheap. Most are upwards of 150,000. Now if you are racing between holiday parties and dinners, and as long as you are not behind the wheel, pursuits has a guide to wines under 30. Check it out. The season is upon us, and everyone, including me, is thinking about what to pour for all those holiday gatherings. Talk about theo holidays and wine. I picked three under 30, yes, 30. The first wine is a white. It is a 2016 kerner, and it costs only 20. Kerner is an exotic white varietal, but that translates what you really need to know is that translates into this wine is also from an unusual varietal, and unusual, obscure varietals are in right now. It has fantastic aroma. Flavors,vely fruit very bright and crisp so you wine will go with something serious in terms of the food. Now we are ready for the red. It is a 2014 from bordeaux, and it costs 27. S have to beeaux aged for decades. This is made from 100 merlot. This is ready to drink right now. Lets taste. It has lovely plum aromas, just the way a bordeaux is supposed to. And charming fruit that is really delicious along with silky tannins. Because it is fruity and so easy to drink, it will go with everything from roasted turkey to a juicy prime rib, and it is perfect for white wine snobs to sip at a cocktail bar. Now for the best, the sparkling wine. This is a brute from california, and is only 25. It is a blend of chardonnay and inot noir, and it was aged 19thcentury caves. Now lets pop the cork. Bubbles are essential for the holidays and look festive in a glass. Is likel of this wine and the flavors are lemony tart and refreshing. Keep a few bottles in the fridge when friends stop by or when you need to perk yourself up while you are cooking. Cheers. Narrator up next, better hurry to that auction house, because this painter may be on the road to being the next milliondollar artist, and we will show you how to light up your man or lady cave in style. Narrator welcome back to bloomberg pursuits, a celebration of the finer things in life. You can also find us online at bloombergpursuits. Com and every issue of bloomberg businessweek. Bloomberg pursuits loves to highlight artists on the rise. And our reporter says a new yorkbased painter is an art is that investors love. Well krebber has remained under the radar, his collectors are prestigious and loyal and other painters love him. Krebbers work challenges perceptions of what a painting can look like. Currently you can buy a painting of his or tens of thousands, or 10,000, but under at least one art dealer tells us that in 10 years krebbers paintings will sell for 1 million. Speaking of unique takes on art, the founder of a lite brite neon studio shows us how he creates his installations. There is an inherent attraction to light and being human. And i think on a very deep psychological level, light is this way in which we experience the energy in a very personal manner. My name is matt. I am the founder of lite brite neon studio, and we manufacture , produce, and restore neon works of art and design. Origins of a lot of the briteve content at lite comes a variety of sources. Sometimes people come with a napkin sketch or a file, then we a design team to Work Together to create an layout what it might look like. We create a paper template, and and that paper, template becomes our guide for what we are going to bend the neon to. We take from the office into the glass shop. We picked out the right size tubing with the right color for the right project. From there we heat of the glass up the glass tubing. The torches keep the glass well in excess of 1000 degrees. We heat up and bend the glass tubing to match the template. One of our chandeliers has over 100 different bends, and each one has to be heated up and we also have to allow the glass to bends soween the the next area can be worked on. It turns into spaghetti, then we have to make sure that spaghetti lines back and cools to the template. We use a blow opposed to connect s to the tubes and we can control the pressure with our mouth. There is just a variety of challenges that come up inherently and working with glass. Glass can crack due to stress, and sometimes you will have a batch that all it wants to do when he gets near a torch is crack. Bent various components, we have to go in using the hand torch and weld all those pieces together. The last step is to weld on electrodes to either end. Each one of the steps is very, very specific. I draw inspiration from so many different experiences. It is hard to come up with one thing that is particular, but one of the ways i am able to connect with the creative is to float. Floating is a similar experience to meditation, psychedelics. Going into a blackened room and laying out in a body of water that is heated to your body temperature. And it allows for all direct external stimulation to fall away. Your internal world really begins to bubble up and manifest. You really get to expedrience a different relationship to your mind. I think i work with neon because i cant not work with it. It is so challenging and so rewarding, and those things are so intertwined that there is no way of separating it out. I learned so much and continued to learn so much by working with it. I find so much inspiration in working with it, and i continue just continue to experience new and Different Things with the medium. It is that close to me. Once the neon tube is completed, we have to to hook it hook it up to our manifold for bombarding. The manifold is opened, the vacuum is drawn. Wed check the tubes for leaks with our tesla coils. We close the tube back off and heat it out using a large and powerful transformer. As the tube is heated up, it is releases anything not inert and we evacuate that out. We introduce the gas into it and seal the tube off, filling in whatever gas we introduced to it. I think my favorite part of making a neon light is when you see it lit up for the first time. Different gases when electrified emit different wavelengths of light. Neon gas is this very orange, fiery red color. Argon gas creates an intense blue, but that light produced can be exposed to a different wavelength by coating the inside of the tubes with a coating. It takes that wavelength of light and emits a different wavelength. We bring it over to the table where we hook it up to a transformer and allow it to settle and age the gas we have introduced to it. There is always a stray particle of something left inside the tube, but that time the oxide coating can act to scrub whatever is left inside the tube while things are getting settled. Once the tubes are aged in, we move on to our process of assembly and put the sculpture fixture together in a jig, hooking up the fixture to a spindle. We connect the wires from the fixture together into a transformer and turn on power and it lights up. Part of what we love about what we do here is that we try to put out into the world the kinds of things that we would like to see. I still am surprised and excited when i get to see it illuminated. There is an ineffable quality to it. To me it is this insight into the inner workings of the universe. It literally is. It is a way of looking at what is surrounding us in the cosmos. In a new light. Narrator up next, how to master the delicate art of the donothing winter vacation. Plus, the pursuits holiday gift guide. Narrator welcome back to bloomberg pursuits. ,a concierge for the most sophisticated lifestyles. You can find us online at bloombergpursuits. Com and in every issue of bloomberg businessweek. Narrator it is a request travel experts get more often than you think, what if a person wants to go somewhere wintry and do nothing . Pursuits jen murphy gave us a helpful guide she says to go storm chasing on vancouver island. From november through february, 30 foot swells and Gale Force Winds lashes the shores, putting on an awesome show for guest. Or head to bavaria, that is where you can relax gazing at snowcapped alps. Or another option, get cozy in vermont at the twin farms bed and breakfast, housed in an 18thcentury farmhouse. Go sledding, then thought out in then chow downa, on souffle pancakes. Every december, pursuits makes Holiday Shopping easier with its holiday gift guide. Here is our editor. Hi. I am chris with bloomberg pursuits. I am here to tell you about our annual holiday gift guide. Today we will be showcasing items across the board, everything from Action Sports to decore. D these are the inyour headphones made by a French Company founded in 2011 by two students who met each other at university in tokyo. Although the sound quality is great, which will love is the build quality. Each is covered with handsewn calfskin leather, and the buds are aluminum. People around you wont know you arent going to know that you spent 360, but you will know. That is what matters. Can you guess what it is . The toaster toaster. Italian design, and it, and comes with everything you are used to having in a toaster. This is one of those cheeky gems everyone loves to get. It toasts your toast and adds a statement to your kitchen. This next gift is a great one for anyone that has a family. This is a travelers map made by a Company Called conquest in columbus, ohio. What you are supposed to do is take one of these pins and mark every time you go to a new place in the world. This is one of those gifts that grows over the years because the more you travel, the more important it becomes is having a record for your family. If you have a friend that is more analog in their outdoor pursuits, you might want to get them these swarovski 42 millimeter binoculars. Everything about these binoculars is topoftheline, materials, economic way they are made. They have a good weight to them. They feel good in your hands. They start at 2800, which means they are for birding enthusiasts who are very enthusiastic. A gopro is on every gift guide , and that is because it is a great present. It is good for people who like to make videos of family trips, good for kids who like to make films of their friends, and great for people who like Outdoor Sports like skiing or surfing. This is the first gopro you can 4k at 60 frames per second. It shoots video wirelessly from the device to your phone then postit right from there to social media. It is a musthave for Adventure Sports fans. This is one of the gifts i have been most excited about since it hit the market over the summer. This is the Louis Vuitton smart horizon smart watch. It is the and only really great first smart watch from a fashion brand. Most importantly for a fashionable smart watch, it looks great. It has everything you need in a smart watch, fitness trafficking, Text Messages and email alerts, basically all the stuff you want. Plus, it has beautiful watch faces that are customizable and changeable. If you want to get a way from the apple watch look, this is a device that looks and feels like a regular watch. Ok, now for the peace that iece this is the octopod made by swiss watchmaker is the make totally crazy contraptions. They collaborated to make this device, which is inspired by an octopod, but also one of the submarines inspired by james cameron. This comes in at the top of the price range market this year at a whopping 36,000. That wraps it up for our holiday picks this season. We hope we inspired you to think of some creative new ways to celebrate family and friends. Narrator find more bloomberg pursuits online at bloombergpursuits. Com and in every issue of bloomberg businessweek. More Bloomberg Television starts now. Cannot live without it. 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