- It's a very modern design.
In some ways it's like going to
the museum or a little gallery,
but it's also very much a family home.
Hi, I'm David welcome to
our house, come on in.
The home is about 6,000 square feet,
it has four bedrooms,
four and a half bathrooms.
We lost a home on this piece of property
to a catastrophic fire in October of 2014.
So then we engaged with an architect.
The home is designed with a
couple of purposes in mind,
we do a lot of collecting of art
and we also do a lot of entertaining
and we thought the two
functions worked well together.
This is the gallery,
I think of it as really the backbone
of the design in the home.
One of the really nice
pieces in the gallery
and you can only get it
with this kind of space,
is this large bird here.
It's an African piece.
When we saw this piece
after we'd already started
the design of the house,
we knew this is the
place that it needs to be
because it's gonna be the piece
you're gonna see from the street.
Even in our family spaces
we like to display art.
Over here we have a
Karel Appel lithograph,
and then over here we kinda
have one of our odd little mixes.
We have a Mireau lithograph
and we have combined Mireau
with this bronze ship that is
a piece of African tribal art.
We love it, I don't
know that it makes sense
to anybody else but for us it works great.
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The house is designed with these long axes
that run all the way through the house.
This is one of my favorite,
as you come through the front
door and turn to your right
you come into and you get this long vista
that goes all the way down
the length of the house
and you pass through a
couple of living spaces
and into our dining room.
The art was specifically
selected to fit in that space
to draw your eyes and to draw
you into the space in here.
And between the dining room and that area
is this living room library.
I love to read, I love
to accumulate books,
I like to collect.
I wanted a room for about 4,000 books,
the two levels accommodate that.
This is the second floor
area of the library.
For me, some of my
favorite books are up here.
And the stuff that I'm proudest about
is my fur trade and mountain man stuff.
I started buying some
of the first editions
of the accounts of some
of these mountain men
and so that was really the inspiration
for this particular
piece of art over here.
And what we have here is
the continental divide,
basically the Rocky
Mountains running from Canada
all the way down to Mexico
below the fireplace.
This is the Rio Grande River,
running right down through here.
We have a vacation home in Taos,
which would be somewhere along here.
Then you've got the Arkansas
and I could bore you to death
describing different features
of the geography of that.
The house that was here
originally was one story,
and we were like you gotta have
a second story on this house
because of this magnificent
view that's out here.
Now one of the building
elements that we had,
that we added, is this wood.
This is a Japanese
technique, and this wood,
where the wood is charred
to a certain point,
and there's a certain
irony in having it here
because we lost the house
that was here originally
to a fire and it just seemed fitting
to add some burned wood to the new house,
yet it's a beautiful
element in the design.
Another quick feature, we
have this outdoor stairway,
which has a very practical application,
but it was real important
to us, surviving a fire,
we wanted multiple ways
to get out of the house.
Every time you walk through the house
you get a different look into another room
that you've never seen before,
so there's always some new discovery.
And we really enjoy having
folks come to our home,
be our guests, so I wanna thank
you for coming here today.
I hope the tour has been
interesting for you,
it has certainly been interesting for me
and I'll look forward to seeing
you come again, thank you.
