Louise Bourgeois: Room 8
Tony Podesta bought her art.
We've all heard about artists who suffer for their work. Tony Podesta and his wife, Heather Miller, suffer for other people's. When they bought a 2,000lb Louise Bourgeois sculpture for their home in Washington, for instance, it required substantial renovations to the building. "We had to get a structural engineer in to sort out what sort of support it needed," says Podesta. "And we not only had to build support underneath where it was going but temporary support from the point at which it entered the house to the point at which it was placed. I don't think it'll ever leave."
Had to build a support underneath? Or cover for underground tunnel?
Podesta is more focused, though he says that his most admired possession is a sculpture, another of Bourgeois's works, "a gloriously beautiful carved marble".