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Tadao Ando-designed 20,662 acre estate for Tom Ford finally finds a buyer

2021-01-12T11:42:00-05:00

After more than four years on the market, Tom Ford’s sprawling New Mexico estate has finally found a buyer. The property, better known as the Cerro Pelon Ranch, sits just outside Santa Fe in the Galisteo Basin area, and measures a whopping 20,662 acres.

The home features the Silverado Movie Town, which is built on the site in the 1980s, writes Joyce Chen for Architectural Digest. The set was originally used for the Western film Silverado, and later for films including 2011's Thor.

Previously on Archinect: Tadao Ando's sprawling Santa Fe compound for Tom Ford hits the market at $75M. Image: kevinbobolskygroup.com

As we reported four and a half years ago, when the property was first listed, Cerro Pelon Ranch had construction oversight provided by LA firm Marmol Radziner.

Read our interview with Tadao Ando, Tadao Ando Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master

"Built by award-winning architect Tadao Ando, the main house sits low to the earth over an expansive reflecting pool, with a wide walkway cutting across the water," writes Chen.

Tadao Ando's sprawling Santa Fe compound for Tom Ford hits the market at $75M

2016-08-10T15:01:00-04:00

Whatever canvas he is given, whether it's a highly constrained urban lot or a sweeping New Mexico landscape, Tadao Ando rarely falters. Cerro Pelon Ranch, the two compounds he designed for former architectural student turned fashion maven/filmmaker Tom Ford, is no exception.

Enormous, horizon-hugging curved concrete walls ripple out from the primary rectilinear residence, engaging the surrounding terrain while creating a boundary for the enormous pools adjacent to the house.

The ranch, with construction oversight provided by Marmol Radziner, is currently on the market for $75 million.

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Architecture in fashion design

2015-08-20T17:01:00-04:00

Although fashion magnate Tom Ford does not make much of the fact that he studied architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, that early influence can still be felt in his body of work, as it can with Daniel DuGoff, an architectural alum of Washington University in St. Louis turned fashionista who has recently been attracting press attention for his technically exquisite yet stylish clothing line DDUGOFF. However, the industry has also been venturing into other traditionally architectural realms. In May, the Shining 3D Fashion Show Design Contest invited participants to submit 3D printed clothing options:

The aesthetic structural sensibility of fashion, while obviously existing in a different material realm, shares much with the most visually engaging and relevant architecture.

This structural appreciation extends beyond clothing into film. When Tom Ford directed the adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man," he had the principal character live in John Lautner's Schaf...