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Yum, yum: love the mousse. But is it art?
Joanna Pitman talks to Ferran Adria, widely hailed as the world's greatest chef and named as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet....
Spectator, The, 07/11/09 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
timeless beauty of a Stradivari, The
How many investments can bring you joy as well as financial gain? Unless pure lucre flows in your veins and you're the sort of person for whom an...
Spectator, The, 02/16/08 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
price of valour and the value of money, The
Our gallant armed forces who face the daily horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan are often said to be undervalued by the public. But at least in the...
Spectator, The, 11/17/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
Rare stamps in a class of their own
Stamps, it is said, are the most valuable commodity on earth by weight. An 1868 Benjamin Franklin stamp, for example -- a standard-sized stamp...
Spectator, The, 08/04/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
A paradise for bookworms
Imagine coming across a book that has lain untouched for 100 years, and making an unexpected historical discovery. Ed Maggs, an antiquarian...
Spectator, The, 05/26/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
Material world
Last November a de Kooning sold at auction in New York for $137.5 million. A few days earlier, a Jackson Pollock had sold for $140 million. As we...
Spectator, The, 05/12/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
A frenzy for Chinese art
The great China investment boom has many facets. A fortnight ago at a Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong of Chinese works of art, wealthy mainland...
Spectator, The, 04/21/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
Auctioneer by appointment to the world's new rich
In 1987, shortly after joining Christie's auction house in London as a 23year-old English Literature graduate from Oxford, Jussi Pylkkanen...
Spectator, The, 03/24/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
Antiques: better value than Ikea
Not many people seem to realise this, but it's cheaper in the long run to buy a solid carved mahogany antique chest of drawers than a modern pine...
Spectator, The, 02/10/07 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication -
Plafonniers and station platforms
Christmas is almost upon us and you still haven't sorted out that significant present for the woman in your life who has everything. And there's...
Spectator, The, 12/16/06 by Pitman, Joanna · More from publication
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