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...Next month, Sotheby’s will hold parts three and four of the sale of the estate of Stuart Cary Welch, considered by many to be the foremost miniatures collector of the past 50 years; two days later, Christie...
...For a bank holiday weekend at Balmoral, the Queen’s grey baronial estate in the northernmost stretches of Scotland, Thatcher and husband Denis (Stephen Boxer) undergo a series of social embarrassments, most...
...The only way to measure that is with a timepiece,” says the real-estate investor from Florida....
...When the owners of buildings carve out walls that Banksy has defaced, the chunks of brick and concrete become the Gesamtkunstwerk of gentrification, total works of art where 21st-century real estate, architecture...
...James Knight, group motoring director at Bonhams auction house, said nine out of 10 classic cars coming under the hammer last year found new homes....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate, RRP£20, 400 pages Adichie’s first novel for seven years is well worth the wait....
...In October last year, they oversaw the $132,000 sale of a collection of papers relating to Wernher von Braun, the German rocket engineer who led the development of the Saturn V booster that made the 1969...
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £18.99 This year’s Man Booker Prize-winner is a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister....
...estate sells to no fewer than 50 different wineries, each of which wants something a little different....
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