Most art collectors will only buy artworks that they know they have room to display. But for Tony Podesta and Heather Miller, two powerful Washington lobbyists whose passion is art, the space must adjust to the art, and if a newly purchased statue requires a renovation of their home, complete with structural support for the floor, well, so be it. “They are known for buying ‘awkward’ works, such as video installations that many other private collectors will not consider… To get around the [display] problem, the couple have excavated a huge subterranean vault beneath their house outside Washington – a white space five metres square and four metres high in which it will be possible to show ‘very complicated video pieces’ on all four walls.”