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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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View all 198 →In 1992 I was in New York, and somebody showed me a work by Louise Bourgeois. I never realised that sculpture could move me, and I was so affected by this piece that I bought it. It was a lot of money.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
My wife. I am a lavish present-giver. I love worshipping my wife with beautiful bits and pieces – it is one of my greatest pleasures.
Paul Heaton
British musician
My first car, three years ago – a Toyota Verso.
A wedding ring.
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Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
Being exquisitely alive.
David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
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