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Although the hotel is new, antiques, art and touches like teakwood floors and private plunge pools give it a historical feel.
In the past five or six years, many galleries have migrated to open on Potsdamer Strasse in western Berlin, a street lined with antiques and art dealers before World War II.
The former occupant, a financial services company, had built a palatial executive suite with stained glass, antiques and expensive art.
Dick Ellis, 63, who headed the Metropolitan Police's Art and Antiques Unit for 10 years until he retired in 1999, said art had become a "natural target" as prices for the commodities had risen.
Greater China generated nearly a third of art and antiques market revenue last year, according to a recent study by the European Fine Art Foundation, surpassing the U.S. for the first time.
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Similarly, if you barter appreciated assets (like art, antiques and collectibles), you may have capital gains.
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He bought historic estates in France, Austria, and elsewhere, filling them with art, antiques, opera scores, and literary manuscripts.
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"There really are very few investment channels, " says Ren Jun, a 30-year-old media entrepreneur with investments in contemporary art, antiques, gold and silver.
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Even specialist fine art, antiques and collectibles auction sites like iGavel that conduct all their sales online still have a physical auction house where you can see and handle the works beforehand.
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Straus pointed out that underinsurance was also a big problem, because plenty of people amass pretty large collections of art, antiques, jewelry or other collectibles, but relatively few have a firm grasp of what those collections are actually worth.
Many note, for example, the influence, subtle or otherwise, of Axel Vervoordt, the acclaimed Belgian designer, who from his castle near Antwerp, and in revered books like "Timeless Interiors, " has popularized a mise-en-scene look of surprising (but tasteful) assemblages of art and antiques amidst light woods and neutral linens.
The large, spare rooms of the brick warehouses and concrete silos, where contemporary art and unusual antiques mix with farm tables and oversize slipcovered sofas, encapsulate his vision in its most elevated form.
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It was a gamble, for although Irwin had worked in the antiques and interiors industry for years, first as an art handler at Christie's, then as a publicist within the business and a store manager, he had no actual design experience.
Hashim, an avid collector of antiques, is also smarting over a scandal involving smuggled Javanese statues that he bought from a Dutch art dealer in 2006.
After buying the apartment downstairs, he and his wife purged the antiques and used midcentury furnishings, like a pair of 1955 club chairs by Dutch maker Helioflex, to showcase their art in the new duplex.
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