John Martin-Robinson

The new arbiters of taste

John Martin Robinson on the latest books by James Stourton amd John Harris

issue 26 January 2008

  • Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945

    James Stourton

    Scala, pp. 480

  • Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvage

    John Harris

    Yale University Press, pp. 240

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