This estate in New York’s Hudson Valley is on a mission to prove you really can have it all. Can’t decide between a fancy designer-built mansion with an eye-catching infinity pool or a bucolic equestrian ranch sporting stables and a regulation-size polo field? The 165-acre property has both, plus a supremely private and scenic locale with easy access to the nearby villages of Amenia, Millbrook, and Wassaic.
Records show the current owner is hotelier, real estate investor, and avid polo player Philip Mactaggart, who operates Resident Hotels throughout the United Kingdom as part of Mactaggart Family & Partners. He acquired the vacant plot of land in 2014 for $3.5 million and then enlisted Resolution: 4 Architecture to build a modern five-bedroom, eight-bath vacation home that was completed in 2019. Now he’s hoisting the entire spread up for sale with a substantial jump in price, asking $20 million. Noble Black and Maria Mendelsohn of Douglas Elliman share the listing.
A striking vanishing-edge pool is nestled beside an open-air cabana decked out for entertaining.
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Dual wings separated by a pivoting glass door in the entry foyer flow to 7,500 square feet of two-level living space showcased by a combined living and dining area featuring a raised-hearth fireplace embedded in black steel and a library wall with a rolling ladder and hidden bar. Seventy-foot walls of glass overlook rolling meadows planted with native species and the Taconic Mountains in the distance.
Other highlights include a sleek all-white kitchen outfitted with an eat-in island and a large butler’s pantry; an intimate fireside media room that opens to a private office via a sliding barn door clad in brass sequins; and the inviting primary retreat, which boasts a fireplace, a meditation room, and dual dressing rooms and baths. Elsewhere are a mirrored gym, a wine cellar, and a breezeway leading to a trellis-shaded roof deck with its own bar, dining space, and lounge warmed by a fireplace.
Equestrian facilities were a must for the property’s owner, who is an avid polo player.
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Created by landscape architect Wagner Hodgson, the picturesque grounds host a vanishing-edge pool and spa that adjoins a wooden sunbathing deck, a spacious open-air cabana holding a kitchen, a lounge, a powder room, and an adjacent alfresco dining terrace. Also on tap is a croquet court, along with horse-centric amenities encompassing two barns with 48 stalls and paddocks, four fenced pastures, and a polo field.
Rounding it all out is a three-car garage flanked by a Belgian block motor court lined with trees and moss, as well as a pair of staff cottages—one with three bedrooms and the other with two.
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Source: Luxury - robbreport.com
