The collection is worth a fortune. Owning it should hold 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.
• Storage and insurance have grown up piecemeal, without a single structure or an agreed valuation.

What the House does

A freeport is a customs warehouse where works are stored without immediate taxation on entry. The House brings the ownership, storage and insurance of the collection into one structure: the works are held by a company or foundation, they rest in a protected regime, and movement gives rise to no needless events.

• A holding company or foundation for the collection — separated from your personal name.
• Storage in a freeport or another protected regime with access control.
• Insurance at an agreed value with a recognised valuation.
• Movement of works across borders without needless tax and customs events.
• A tax position on ownership, aligned with the owner’s residence.

What you get: a holding company or foundation for the collection · a freeport storage agreement with access control · an insurance policy at an agreed value with a recognised valuation · a 10–20 page tax memo on ownership, aligned with residence

Why this way and not another

• A gallerist or art adviser handles the deals but does not build the structure of ownership and storage.
• An insurer covers a work, but without a recognised valuation and a single structure the cover is contestable.
• Every movement across a border in your own name is a duty, a tax and a trace of the owner.

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.
• “Every border is a duty and a disclosure.” — Movement is built through the structure and a protected regime, without needless events.
• “Insurance won’t cover the real value.” — Cover rests on an agreed valuation and a single structure of ownership.

Where this leads

The collection is held by a structure as a single asset: the works rest in a protected regime, insured at an agreed value, moving across borders without needless events. A fortune gathered over years has found the form in which it holds, and is kept, as a fortune.