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It is also where Swiss expat Christian Pauli works. Those who pass through two turnstiles and clear two security checks, as well as a Singaporean customs office at the entrance, are greeted by the general manager of Fine Art Logistics in the atrium with a cordial handshake and a friendly Swiss “Grüezi.” A weathering steel sculpture by artist Ron Arad seems to fill the entire atrium. Its many mirrors reflect multiple images of Pauli. The large installation was once on display at MoMA in New York, and it is said to have taken months to reassemble here. Pauli is in his late forties with gelled-back hair, and has been living in Asia for decades. He has been based at Le Freeport since it opened and will tell you all about it: that it has roughly six thousand square meters of storage space and that more than half of the clients are from Europe and North America. Fine Art Logistics is one of the tenants at the freeport and at the same time a 100-percent subsidiary of Natural Le Coultre, the company that also runs the freeport locations in Geneva and Luxembourg. A further branch is currently under construction in Shanghai, and an annex is due to be completed in Singapore in 2018. According to the company, 80 percent of the goods at Le Freeport Singapore are works of art. The rest consists of gold bars – for example from Deutsche Bank – vintage cars, wine and jewelry.
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