Editor’s picks | | | This Pac-Man arcade machine dates from 1980, the year the game was first released by the Japanese company Namco. With its glowing haunted maze, dot-munching, ball-shaped hero and punchy sound design, Pac-Man became a cultural icon and the most successful coin-operated video game of all time VIEW LOT  Estimate: $2,000-3,000 10 September, New York | | | | Chesley Bonestell, an artist who had worked on films such as Citizen Kane, painted Saturn as seen from Titan around 1952. As Arthur C. Clarke had noted earlier, ‘His paintings have often been mistaken for actual colour photographs by those slightly unacquainted with the present status of interplanetary flight’ VIEW LOT Estimate: $30,000-50,000 until 12 September, Online | | | | A classic artwork is re-engineered by master leatherworkers in this rare, limited-edition pumpkin bag from 2023, branded Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama. The spotted gourd sculpture — a staple of the Japanese artist’s output — has been adapted to create a statement handbag in yellow and black, adorned with the LV monogram VIEW LOT Estimate: $10,000-15,000 until 18 September, Online | | | | Monitoring one’s steps, whether walking or running, is routine in the smartphone era — but that wasn’t the case back in 1986, when the Puma RS-Computer Shoe was launched. Like the pioneering original, this 2018 re-release has a built-in computer in the heel of each shoe to log distance covered, time elapsed and calories burned VIEW LOT Estimate: $1,000-2,000 until 12 September, Online | | | Browse all | |
