By Lisa @Privilege
What High WASPs don’t do is buy art from a furniture store. Enough said.
Now, some of us have collections. Real collections, of the sort that wind up in museums when the estate tax proves too onerous, or warrant their very own auction. For example, if my dear friend Reggie Darling ever decides to be done with collecting, an auction house could have a field day up at Darlington House.
The Artsy, as one would expect, amass art on their travels. Their unerring eye affords them treasures where the rest of us might wonder quite where to put that teal papier-maché spirit animal.
But most commonly, High WASPs, especially those of us with fading family fortunes, buy or are given art from friends and family. Let me not forget economic exigencies, in portraying my culture’s... More...
