Mr Brown is now betting the other way: that toffiness, with its connotations of dilettantism and frivolity, is still offputting enough to sway votes.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.

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