All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art
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A diabolically delicious snapshot of the art world's luminous facade, and the rotten, depraved core that drives the machine. Whitfield records the audacious and fallacious downfall of his friend, Inigo Philbrick—a charismatic art dealer, now in prison for wire fraud—to thrilling effect. All That Glitters is an electric takedown of the corrupting proximity of art and excessive wealth that distorts the market from Mayfair to Miami.
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Deception is a fine art.
When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9781788169950
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 320 x 231 x 30 mm
- Weight: 548g
- Languages: English





















