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The Collection Learns Manners
Chrome, leather, canvas, stone: four purchases surviving the taste audit.
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The Heir's favorite objects look restrained because the loud ones have been moved to another address.
“Minimalism is easiest when the storage building is elsewhere.”
The Heir / Approved objects
Expensive enough to appear inevitable
A motor, a watch, a painting, and a house with very little furniture in the photographed rooms.
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- Silver grand tourer
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- Minute-repeater watch
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- Unsigned red canvas
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- Limestone house
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Restored mechanically. Left cosmetically difficult.
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Tells time aloud to people who recognize the complication.
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The signature is in the paperwork downstairs.
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Twelve rooms. Four chairs visible.