 Committed to achieving the atmosphere of a great, old family residence, The Mansion features art from around the world including a pair of eight-hundred-year-old Tang horses, two Matisse drawings, a Sol LeWitt canvas, a sixteenth-century altarpiece and original works by Fernand Léger, Picasso, Jennifer Bartlett, Frank Stella and Helen Frankenthaler. Beyond high hand-forged iron gates and colonnaded chambers is an atrium topped with a soaring glass dome that evokes two nineteenth-century gems: the Milan Galleria and London's Crystal Palace. The atrium has been engineered to remain at a perfect seventy-three degrees year round. Accommodations range from a 2,700-square-foot one-bedroom villa to a 12,000-square-foot palazzo. There are seventeen different palettes, two hundred and fifty variations of handmade tiles, stenciled cedar beams, raised moldings, twenty-four-karat gold-leafed medallions and numerous private indoor pools. Villas range from $5,000 to over $35,000 per night.
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