and design dealers is laced with luxury purveyors like Rolls
Royce, Duncan Hamilton with a Ferrari, Clarence Dillon Wines
and Shaw Speed & Custom with a ��50,000 Harley Davidson
motorcycle. Also participating are over 12 jewelry specialists
from Kentshire, S.J. Phillips, Hemmerle, A La Vieille Russie
and Verdura to Fred Leighton.
Then in this event driven
world Masterpiece is a bit of
a coup as to timing. The fair
coincides with Wimbledon,
the Olympics, the Queens
Jubilee, Ascot and the
major auctions top heavy
with billionaire buyers.��
Barely a week ago Sotheby���s
hammered down a Joan
Miro painting for a record
$37 million indicating the
roaring demand for steep
ticketed art as a haven from
the sometimes-volatile stock
market.��
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Manhattan interior designer
Theo Fennell Jamie Drake reports another
significant factor tipping the scales even further for Masterpiece���s
success. ���Every very, very rich person cruises through London
twice a year��� says Drake. And Masterpiece reflects that kind of
traffic. The fair is jammed with Brazilians, Russians oligarchs
and the Chinese. �� Americans as well as those from the Middle
East are also strolling the aisles in full force.
HYLAND
