Eric Heerema, the Dutch multi-millionaire vineyard owner, who I interviewed in 2019 and who commutes between London, Sussex and his estate in the Cairngorms, explained that his preferred method of travelling to Scotland was on the sleeper train: “the coaches are old, and a bit tatty, but they have so much character.” A friend who knew David Rockefeller, the late American billionaire and prolific art collector, describes his former home in upstate New York, packed with precious objects, as “very informal, with things fraying a bit”.
When I wrote about the sale of the Rockefeller collection at Christie’s in 2018, Jonathan Rendell, deputy chairman of the auction house, told me that the downstairs of the Rockefeller house on 65th Street, New.
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