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    A crowded season

    Jul 13, 2022 4 minutes
    Huon Mallalieu

    I HAD left Maastricht before the excitement at TEFAF and so am unable to reveal the identity of the stoical onlooker who sat unmoving (if perhaps not unmoved) through the robbery at the Symbolic & Chase stand, nor that of the man who wisely decided against having a go with the vase of flowers. However, by the time you read this, all may have been revealed.

    No doubt we shall also learn how a sledgehammer was conveyed there; my guess would be that it was hidden during the standbuilding days. Given the great heat in the MECC exhibition centre, suspicions

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