(architecturaldigest.com 6-19-17)
In California's Santa Ynez Valley, architect David L. Leavengood helped a banker-turned-cowboy realize his dream of building a ranch for a bullfighting horse operation. Situated on nearly 5,000 aceres of land reclaimed from decades of overgrazing, the 27-room house is inspired by Spanish colonial haciendas found in South America.
Horses and riders can rest by a watering pond.
Amy Weaver designed the interiors with Old World opulence in mind. Then dining room seats 12. The ceiling beams are salvaged railroad trestles. Chair fabrics, Clarence House. Sultanabad carpet from Claremont Rug Company.
"It is a powerful environment whose scale and beauty dominate the constructed gardens," landscape architect Carol Puck Erickson says of the ranch. In the courtyard, she and colleague Brian Brodersen installed a Moroccan stone fountain. The Chinese elm creates a micro-climate for camellias, jasmine and Chiapas sage.
Leavengood walks a horse through the loggia of the 12-stall barn - one of the first buildings erected on the ranch, where horses are bred and trained for the bullfight. The lanterns were fashioned by a blacksmith especially for the property.
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