A Modernist Architect’s Striking New Mexico Retreat Can Be Yours for $1.6 Million

The self-designed and semi-remote New Mexico retreat of late, great American architect Myron Goldfinger has come up for sale after his 2023 death at the age of 90. With an asking price of $1.6 million, the one-of-a-kind abode is listed with Matt Sargent of Sotheby’s International Realty—Santa Fe Brokerage.

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Goldfinger, lauded in the headline of his New York Times obituary as the “Monumental Modernist Architect of Modernist Homes,” is best known for designing flamboyantly unusual residences in and around New York State and in particular in the Hamptons. His commissions, which included the interior of Roberta Flack’s apartment at the legendary Dakota apartment house in Manhattan, are easily recognized, thanks to a signature style in which he composed sculptural, geometric assemblages of basic shapes (triangles, squares, half circles), often clad in pale, slender strips of wood.

For his personal getaway on almost 29 acres of rolling hills dotted with piñon trees and chamiza in the Los Caminitos subdivision on the scenic northern outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Goldfinger winnowed his penchant for the fantastical to a simple, hogan-like structure with a barrel-vaulted roofline. Completed in 1996 and positioned on a high rise where it’s accessed by a snaking dirt driveway, the 2,100-square-foot getaway was furnished by his wife, interior designer and frequent collaborator June Goldfinger, to accommodate some of the couple’s extensive collection of folk art.

Unlike some of Goldfinger’s more elaborate creations, the New Mexico home eschews complexity, its soft, tan-colored hump reflecting the surrounding landscape’s rolling hills. The walls are a foot thick; the polished concrete floors are stained to match the reddish hue of the dirt outside, and the vast picture windows and glass sliders that surround the home provide ample light and an easy movement of air that helps to cool the home on warmer days.

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The home comprises just two double-height spaces at either end of the long, slender structure, with the living room facing west for sunset views and the bedroom to the east to catch both morning light and the rising moon at night. In between the two spaces are a simple galley kitchen, the bathrooms, and a dressing room illuminated by a huge circular skylight.

Tax records and other resources indicate the Goldfingers also maintained a small apartment in the massive, I.M. Pei-designed Kips Bay Towers complex in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood, along with a waterfront home on the Caribbean island of Anguilla and a deliciously unconventional three-story home hidden in the woods in New York’s Westchester County community of Waccabuc that he designed and built in 1970.

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