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Lisbon, Portugal
As you leave the city of Lisbon traveling on the road to Arrabida Natural Park, the scenery gets progressively more and more beautiful, turning into a luxuriant paradise. Here nestles a lakefront villa on nearly six acres at the foot…
Dalwhinnie Ranch, Telluride, Colorado
Dalwhinnie Ranch is where the Scottish Highlands and the pampas of Argentina meet up with Colorado’s Uncompahgre Valley. The 60-acre riverfront estancia is unparalleled on the Western Slope for brilliantly uniting some of the Rockies’ best scenery and an elegant…
Turtle Nest, Islamorada, Florida
Turtle Nest personifies the island dream. Rising from the Atlantic’s white sand, with palm trees swaying and surf gently lapping on the beach, the recently minted getaway in the Florida Keys at Islamorada savors the sun of the Fishing Capital…
Hunter Custom Homes Masterpiece, Las Campanas, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The gated Santa Fe compound—a Southwest synergy of sculpted adobe walls, limestone floors, rugged beamed ceilings, carved alder doors, nine glowing fireplaces, and sun-dappled portals—is a perfect foil for the spectacular high-desert golfing paradise of Las Campanas that surrounds it.…
Manhattan, New York
A double town house feasting on Manhattan’s historic Turtle Bay Gardens from an extraordinary 38-foot-wide terrace, the impeccable 10,000-square-foot mansion on East 49th is a city treasure. Its pièce de résistance is a stately living-room level overlooking Turtle Bay. A…
Stillington Hall, Gloucester, Massachusetts
When it came time for the internationally distinguished interior design icon John Cottrell to seek a country house in Massachusetts, he chose Stillington Hall. The 1923 Henry Davis Sleeper 18th-century-style English Tudor sits atop a halcyon hilltop on 26 private…
Santa Ynez Valley, California
After living in some of the world’s dreamiest settings, the couple longed to return to California. They created a kingdom on 23 oak-clad acres atop the most majestic hilltop in the Santa Ynez Valley—with a celebrity list that has included…
Upper Brookville, New York
The beautifully restored mansion an hour from Manhattan in Upper Brookville was ingeniously created to be an elegant and fashionable playhouse from which to enjoy all of the seasons. A dramatic glass-enclosed tennis court and a tranquil indoor swimming pool…
Roellen Ranch, Athens, Texas
Sprawling over 450 acres near Dallas, the Roellen Ranch—a Texas landmark and one of the world’s great equestrian properties—boasts a 32,600-square-foot show barn and indoor arena patterned after Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth. The antebellum-style mansion highlights a soaring…
Rafter L Ranch, Sulphur Springs, Texas
Rafter L Ranch, a grand Texas cattle ranch an hour from Dallas, is crowned by a formal manor fashioned for important gatherings. A double staircase introduces the 18,000 square feet. Dominating the main floor is a 36-foot-high great room overlooking…
Thanda Royal Residences, Zululand, South Africa
Under the African sky, there exists a place where time began. A place like no other. Unique, untouched, undiscovered. And in a world where there are few places left to be discovered, when you discover it, you celebrate its powerful…
Manhattan, New York
Built in 1873 as a four-story town house in what is now the elite Upper East Side’s Historic Treadwell District, the ravishing stucco ensemble—today with a fifth and partial sixth floor—is a city symphony of sophistication and elegance. A marble…
Manhattan, New York
The year was 1888. The commission, a baronial town house in the era’s newly emerging Craftsman style. Respected architectural firm Thom & Wilson, renowned for the Harlem Courthouse and fanciful Moorish-styled Hampton Apartments in Greenwich Village, were more than up…
Hammersley Hill, Pawling, New York
A Hammersley family treasure for almost 200 years, Quaker Hills’ 350-acre Hammersley Hill perches on a hilltop in Pawling overlooking mile-long Quaker Lake with a 50-mile panorama that reaches to the Catskills. Former owner Lowell Thomas broadcast many of his…
Deerfield, Bedford, New York
Less than an hour from Manhattan, a quiet country lane in prized Mount Holly estate area—a pocket of tranquillity near riding trails and a nature sanctuary—unveils a visually stunning Georgian Colonial glorifying over eight acres. On velvety lawns with stonewalls,…