Hear Philip Mould discuss how shoe buckles set him on the path of art dealing, how he tracks down lost paintings and why auction houses are taking over the art world
Month: June 2013
Review: Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort, Oman
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I headed to the Shangri-La’s Al-Husn (which means ‘the castle’) hotel in Muscat straight from a tour of a very different castle — the 17th Century fort at Nizwa, deep in Oman’s dustbowl interior. Although we made the four-hour journey to the coast by air-conditioned 4x4, by the time I stumbled into the hotel’s serene, high-ceilinged lobby I looked, and felt, far too much like Lawrence of Arabia after a hard few weeks of desert warfare.