He said his foray into art storage began about seven years ago, when he and his wife were in Paris collectingcontemporaryart and mid-century furniture for their Greenwich Village apartment.
One collector told me recently that one of the great advantages she found when collectingcontemporaryart is that, if all else fails, the artist is still around to vouch for his or her work.
Mr Sigg, who has travelled around much of China over the past quarter-century collecting its contemporaryart, has yet to be convinced by all this talk of a boom in museums.