Despite months of marketing and all the pre-sale chatter, by the end of Sotheby's auction of contemporary art last night one message came through at a high decibel level: the buyers, not the auction house or the sellers, set the prices.
Many of his Chinese clients flew in to celebrate, among them George Huang, the Chairman of Acer, who was wearing a large horse brooch designed by Mr Chan.While the talk on the stands was of the attractions of the pieces for sale, backstage the chatter was more fractuous.
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Pig blood cakes, stinking tofu, coconut dough rolls, oyster omelettes, meat and spring onion steamed dumplings, and bitter melon juice drinks are some of the myriad delicacies (and staples) on sale amid much noisy chatter and startlingly low prices.
So if you're discussing a potential sale with someone in Chatter, you'll be able to know whether they're online, and if they are, you could start talking in real-time.
The field's rapid growth has paralleled the increase in home sales, but there is constant chatter about "the bubble," and the Department of Labor reports that employment of agents and brokers (who have more training and experience) will grow more slowly than the average for all occupations through 2012.
Media group UBM rose 2.6p to 485.2p, as dealers revived chatter of a sale of its news agency, PR Newswire.
The chatter around the sale was remarkably light on the "need for private investment in Royal Mail" (the government's mantra since 2010) and rather more concerned with share value.
