The collection is worth a fortune. Owning it should be built like one.

• The collection is worth a fortune, yet you own it as a set of objects in your own name.
• The works and the stores sit in different countries, and every border is a duty, a tax and a risk of disclosure.
• The history of ownership lives in receipts, letters and memory, not in an assembled dossier.
• There are several heirs, and an indivisible collection risks becoming a source of dispute — or lots at an auction to pay tax.

What the House does

The House brings the ownership, storage, documentation and succession of the collection into one structure. The works are held by a company or foundation, they rest in a protected regime, their provenance and title are set out so that a bank or a buyer reads them as proven, and the order in which the collection passes is settled in your lifetime. Where documents are to be drafted, licensed counsel drafts them — instructed and supervised by the House.

• A holding company or foundation for the collection — separated from your personal name.
• Storage in a freeport or another protected regime, and movement of works across borders without needless tax and customs events.
• A single registry of the collection with documented provenance and confirmed clean title for each work.
• A transfer to the heirs during your lifetime, by the order you choose, so tax does not force a sale.
• A tax position on ownership, aligned with the owner’s residence and the family’s overall structure.

What you get: a holding company or foundation for the collection · a protected storage arrangement · a registry with provenance and clean title for each work · an order of transfer to the heirs · a tax memo with recommendations on ownership, aligned with residence

What worries you — and the House’s answer

• “I own the collection as things, not as a fortune.” — The House sets a holding structure in which the collection becomes a single asset.
• “The buyer will find a gap in the title.” — Provenance and clean title are documented in advance, before any transaction, not during it.
• “The heirs will have to sell half the collection to pay tax.” — The structure and the lifetime transfer are built so that tax does not require a fire sale.

Where this leads

The collection is held by a structure as a single asset: the works rest in a protected regime, their history can be proven, and they pass on as one whole by the order you set. A fortune gathered over years has found the form in which it holds, and is kept, as a fortune — the family’s legacy, not lots at the next auction.