Thierry Ehrmann spent $3.2 million turning his house into a shock exhibit by 45 artists, replete with a "blood"-filled swimming pool, the remains of a crashed aircraft, scorched walls, and portraits of Osama bin Laden and Tony Blair. Calling his reworked 17th-century inn in the outskirts of Lyon Demeure du Chaos , Ehrmann, an art collector and founder of the art valuation site artprice.com, said the project was his response to September 11 and recent events in the Middle East. His neighbors, seeing it as an eyesore, attempted to force him to restore the structure to its original form. Ehrmann was subsequently fined $264,000 for not obtaining permission to change the 2.5-acre estate. Last week, however, an appeals court allowed the "Abode of Chaos" to remain in its literally art-damaged state.