Rise of the Art Insta-Collectors: Buying Big Names They Don’t Even Love That’s partly because of the herd mentality surrounding it. Like fashion or décor, choosing art should be a matter of taste. But collections are so often dictated by one of an army of architects, art consultants and decorators who have stepped up to help undereducated overspenders buy the same art everyone else has. “People choose decorators the way the wife chooses a handbag. You have so-and-so; I need to use them too,” a seasoned collector said shrugging over an espresso and a smoked salmon tartine at Via Quadronno. “Now all these people hire art consultants who procure the art. By the time the project is finished, there is very little individual taste. It’s like the way you see all these girls with flat-ironed hair, a hobo bag, jeans and high heels.”
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:05:06 +0000
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