"Mrs. Cruz"
Over fifty, the gray-haired hotel housekeeper directed the black concierge car to park in front of the courtyard of the Aman suite.
He ignored the slippery ground and trotted towards Mrs. Sakai.
The meticulous butler service of luxury hotels has always been a golden signature created by established global hotel giants such as Aman, Hilton and O in order to win the favor of high-net-worth customers.
These butlers have received the most professional training and are on call 24 hours a day. Their average age is over forty-five years old, with rich experience and extensive connections.
The butler at the Aman Hotel has two crossed keys proudly embroidered with golden silk thread on the chest of his black custom-made formal suit.
Only the strongest in the field of hotel butlers can obtain this "golden key" honorary certification.
From making sure that the water temperature of the bathtub with rose petals in the room is exactly 415 degrees Celsius before the guest makes an appointment to check in, to professional travel service guides, from temporary entrustment relationships to obtain tickets to the opera house football match box, to They are all professionals when it comes to buying asthma medicines for customers or even performing emergency tracheostomy surgeries.
This golden key butler with a salary of 300,000 US dollars a year now looks sweaty on his face.
"The car sent to Miss Sakai is located in Laiyada District. I need to contact the driver to report Miss Sakai's situation, madam."
The housekeeper wet his handkerchief with The sweat on his forehead.
He knew the identities of the two long-term renters living in this small courtyard.
The wife and daughter of the famous artist Kazunari Sakai.
The young Miss Sakai called a car at night and strolled to the local slums in Yangon.
Sakai Katsuko claimed to have her mother’s permission.
The concierge sent a car without checking, and now the mother seems to be anxious to find her daughter.
The housekeeper doesn’t know what happened. If anything happens to such an underage guest, the reputation of the hotel will be greatly affected, whether it has fulfilled its responsibility as a venue caretaker or not.
Artists are very difficult to serve. They have great influence in the upper class circle, and their energy is even more exaggerated than that of rock stars.
The housekeeper found Mrs. Sakai standing on the corridor at the door, her windbreaker unbuttoned, looking like she was getting ready to go out in a hurry, but she was staring at her mobile phone, motionless, with a complex expression on her face.
"Madam"
He called softly again.
Mrs. Sakai was still as unresponsive as a sculpture.
She turned a deaf ear to the housekeeper’s shout, and gently zoomed in and out of the screen with her fingers.
The housekeeper glanced at the screen with the corner of his eye and found that it was a very strange piece of work, which must not have been completed yet.
Unlike orthodox oil paintings,
The decorative paintings hanging in the corridors of the Aman Hotel are all carefully selected., the housekeeper also has a certain level of art appreciation.
He found that although this painting could only be seen roughly, it was really beautiful.
Different from those works of art I have seen before, the brushstrokes are exotic and not obscure.
The housekeeper couldn't help but glance twice subconsciously.
"Does it look good?" Mrs. Sakai suddenly asked.
"I'm very sorry, madam, I didn't mean to do it."
The housekeeper immediately took two steps back. He was only concerned about the guest's situation and had no intention of exploring Mrs. Sakai's privacy.
"I'm not blaming you, I'm just asking you what you think of this base map."
Mrs. Sakai raised her phone towards the housekeeper and asked casually.
"This is Miss Sakai's painting. It is very innovative and should be a good work." The housekeeper knows the general situation of each distinguished guest and knows that Miss Sakai herself is a well-known person in Asia. of artistic genius.
"Not bad"
Mrs. Sakai shook her head gently.
She didn't really want to ask the hotel staff for their opinion.
Mrs. Sakai was just too surprised.
Just like when you suddenly see a beautiful mirage in the clouds, you will subconsciously want to ask the people around you if it is just an illusion in your mind.
She never expected to see Gu Weijing paint such a work.
It’s a bit abnormal
Excellent techniques are secondary. This feeling of perfectly integrating Eastern and Western styles has already been established and prototyped by famous artists.
This is much more eye-catching than simple techniques.
Skills can be practiced slowly.
It is nothing more than a question of the speed of growth, and many famous artists cannot achieve this ability to control the collision and integration of cultures.
The way of the master,
lies within.
"It's so shocking. It's not just good, it's just a little monster. Maybe he and Shengzi can really support each other until the end, maybe."
< p>This idea came to Mrs. Sakai's mind."Forget it, children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, let the children do it."
She thought about the battle between heaven and man in her mind for a few seconds, and suddenly relaxed.
Mrs. Sakai stamped her feet, turned around and walked back in the direction she came from.
"Mrs. Cruz, you"
The housekeeper looked at Mrs. Sakai's back in confusion. < /p>
Tokyo’s Chiyo-ku, Noro Yakitori Shop.
The original meaning of ねぎま is a cooking method of barbecue meat skewers. Take fresh chicken breasts or chicken legs and thread them with bamboo skewers, with green onions or flattened garlic in the middle.The charcoal fire heats slowly.
The fat will slowly seep out from under the chicken skin during the grilling process. The aroma of the fat will be mixed with the taste of green onions and garlic. It is sweet but not greasy, which is Japanese style. A very essential dish in cuisine.
This restaurant called ねぎまroasted bird shop does not belong to those expensive Michelin Japanese food.
On the contrary, it has the smell of a fly restaurant hidden among the Saijing fireworks. In addition to various grilled skewers, there are also oden and stomach-filling miso ramen.
"Sakai-kun, you still have a good appetite." The chef, wearing a long white gown with a strap like a bathrobe, placed three skewers of grilled beef on a black plate in front of Uncle Sakai. He said with a smile.
"Oh"
The plump and round Professor Kazunari Sakai put a skewer into his mouth, slurped it, and his throat rolled comfortably, and the whole skewer The meat just disappeared.
He took a sip of the sake in the cup, as happy as a 230-pound fat man.
"Master Otani is still good at his craftsmanship, and the meat is delicious and delicious."
Issei Sakai gave a thumbs up and casually wiped the shiny grease from the corner of his mouth. There is no elegant artist's style.
In fact, Master Otani’s barbecue skills can only be called proficient.
It is incomparable to those large chain barbecue restaurants, not to mention the high-end kaiseki cuisine and the carefully cooked barbecue steaks in Michelin restaurants. From the raw materials to the production process, this small shop can beat it. .
Perhaps the only advantage is that it is cheap.
A skewer of chicken skin roasted bird is 70 yen, a chicken breast roasted bird is 90 yen, and a beef roasted bird is 110 yen. If you don’t mind eating grilled chicken butt, a skewer is only 50 yen. Even poor students going to school in Tokyo can afford it.
Among the three volumes of East Asian Immortal Cultivation,
It is said that people in Eastern Xia do not take vacations, Koreans do not sleep, and Japanese people do not eat.
The reason why Japanese people don’t eat is partly because Japanese food is too expensive.
Living in Tokyo is not easy.
This is a very prosperous place, and the cost of living is also very high. It is normal to spend six or seven thousand yen just to eat something good.
Unlike his peers, Uncle Sakai likes anime, baseball, and idol stars.
His biggest hobby is eating.
When he was a young student, he worked as a part-time training coach for a painting club of a private high school every Friday. After class, he would drive to this small shop with only a dozen square meters. inside.
While looking at the accounts in my notebook and continuing to calculate how much money I have left to pay for studying abroad, I ate a few skewers of barbecue to relax.
Even if it takes a long time to eat two skewers of beef and roasted birds, this is the happiest time he has ever had.
Nowadays, Professor Sakai has long been prosperous. He can buy this small shop ten times for any painting he sells. His wallet is enough for him to eat truffles like potatoes and foie gras like pork liver, but he still likes it. The atmosphere in this store.
Especially when my wife is not at home and no one is monitoring my weight.
Uncle Sakai often strolls over for late-night snacks.
This place has the taste that he remembers.
In this small shop, he is not a great artist with a net worth of hundreds of millions of people who admires him. He is still the one with the richness that Master Otani said. "Sakai-kun" with a good appetite.
Even though classmate "Sakai-kun" has changed from a melancholy handsome man as thin as a bamboo pole to a chubby, round and cheerful meat ball, he is still very relaxed.
The only person who is out of place in this small restaurant is the young man in a suit and ties next to Professor Kazunari Sakai.
He has a pale complexion, a gold watch from Vacheron Constantin on his wrist, and his blond hair is smooth enough with hair wax to make a fly split.
"Professor Sakai, please, please give Ma Shi Gallery serious consideration. One or two oil paintings of 5060 or above size can be delivered on a quarterly basis each month. Each work is US$500,000." We will give you a special solo exhibition at the Zurich Museum of Fine Arts within four years. In addition, Ma Shi Gallery is also willing to pay a total signing fee of US$8 million, so that the total quotation of the four-year contract can reach the range of US$50 million. ”
The young man quietly promoted the gallery behind him to the big artists around him. With just a touch of his upper and lower lips, he could see contracts worth millions of dollars, as if they were not dollars but waste paper.
Hank Max is a hunter dealer at Max Gallery.
If the astronomical transaction prices at auctions are fireworks that explode in an instant, then the selling prices of artists' works in primary markets such as galleries are a strong beacon in the hearts of investors.
Hype, bubbles, financial speculation, there are too many things that can affect transaction prices in the ever-changing auction market, but prices in galleries can maintain long-term basic stability.
In order to maintain the healthy development of the market and attract the interest of big collectors.
An unwritten unspoken rule of the industry is that
the works of represented artists displayed in top galleries will sell for slightly less than their future market valuation of the artist.
For a long time, works sold by big galleries such as Gagosian and Lisson often cost millions of dollars, but collectors usually bought them and kept them in their hands for several years. It will be profitable.
This is a pattern in which the left foot steps on the right foot and ascends to the sky in a cycle.
The appreciation of the works of outstanding agent painters increases the reputation of the gallery, and the improvement of the reputation of the gallery gives collectors purchasing confidence.
Behind almost any great artist, there is a giant gallery.
Giant galleries are like football teams, and excellent painters complement each other.
They can make huge sums of money from the talents and reputations of the artists, and if the market prices collapse, it is the galleries behind them that are willing to spend money to save the artists.
The most classic case in the art market is Damien Hirst, who was briefly crowned the most valuable painter in the world.
Hearst Millennium encountered market fluctuations, the auction market was cold, and transaction prices plummeted.
It is widely rumored that it was the buyers under Larry Gagosian, the founder of Gagosian Gallery, who rushed into the market with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash flow, which stabilized the market.
Picasso, Andy Warhol, Mondrian, Damien Hirst
Today, any artist who is favored by such a giant gallery will have no chance of being represented in this life. If you can only sell art with a transaction volume of tens of millions of dollars, it will be a real failure.
Anna Weyant, a beautiful Canadian painter, was worth more than 100 times in an instant just because there were paparazzi rumors about her affair with Larry Gagosian.
Every art student knows that it is not so much the artists but the galleries behind them that can determine the trends and directions of the art market.
Ma Shi Gallery is such a gallery giant, or in other words, it used to be such a gallery giant.
This used to refer to before the 1970s.
Big galleries are not magicians. They may be able to sell brass into gold and gold into diamonds, but they cannot sell shit at the price of gold.
Collectors are not fools either.
If you want to sell it for a sky-high price, the painter himself must have at least a piece of gold.
There must be famous actors in operas, starring roles in movies, and galleries must have leading artists who can make people take advantage of them.
If you want to become a giant, it is not enough to have money. You must also have art masters and works that are familiar to collectors.
Similar to Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol to Gagosian, Yayoi Kusama to ofa, and John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono to Lisson Gallery.
Mashi Gallery is an old-school gallery.
It was founded in 1943 during the smoke of World War II. It was once ranked among the top three in the industry. However, it missed the Pop wave in the 1970s and finally After giving up the opportunity to sign and represent Andy Warhol for a moment, there was no longer an artist with enough weight to "hold the spotlight".
The promotion of several painters was not very successful, and the investment confidence of the collecting families who had good relations with Mashi Gallery in the past was greatly affected.
Ma Shi Gallery has also fallen from the giant gallery in the past to the bottom of the first-tier galleries, and has begun to develop like a second-tier gallery.
The Ma Shi family urgently needs to create an artist who is successful enough, or even great, to regain its past glory, and no expense is spared for this. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft