£4,750 sculpture stolen from Belgravia’s The Osborne Studio Gallery (more…)
Category: OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR
Luxury and the arts From houses to cars and from Hockney to van Dyck, a profile of the best and the worst
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Blackadder’s lair
Rowan Atkinson puts his Oxfordshire home on the market for £2.9 million after selling his McClaren F1 – bought for £540,000 in 1997 – for a staggering £8 million
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A Spitfire soars
Spitfire smashes £1.5 million pre-sale estimate and soars to sell for £3.1 million for charity in London (more…)
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Anything but Australian
One-off Maserati Boomerang heads to auction for just under £3 million (more…)
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A luxury estate
Unusual Aston Martin estate car owned by Richemont director Alain Dominique Perrin heads to auction (more…)
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Beware of the bitches; bitches beware
Matthew Steeples reviews Steven Berkoff’s first novel: ‘Sod the bitches!’ whilst the author shares his take on it in a video exclusive (more…)
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Reader offer: La Traviata at Winslow Hall
Winslow Hall in Buckinghamshire to host fourth annual opera production between 8th and 19th July 2015 (more…)
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Frederick D. Hill and Daisy Hill Sanders: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
‘The Steeple Times’ asks father and daughter art dealing duo Frederick D. Hill and Daisy Hill Sanders: “What’s on your mantelpiece?” (more…)
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Bring your own bidet
Most expensive house to be publicly offered for sale in the UK to be stripped of everything including the kitchen sink (more…)
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A disadvantage and a curse
A £1.5 million, 302-acre North Yorkshire farm that is for sale for the first time in 131 years provides evidence of the sorry plight of hill farmers in Britain (more…)