Available for the first time
Las Marianas 2 has never been on the market. It has run as a rental, with two cooks and housekeeping, and this is the first time it is available to buy, furnished except for a few personal pieces.
The beach
Thirty minutes west of Puerto Escondido, past the point where the road turns to sand, there is a stretch of beach where the most interesting architecture in Mexico happened almost by accident. An artist bought land here and asked Tadao Ando to build an artist residency. Casa Wabi followed, with Álvaro Siza's ceramics studio, Alberto Kalach's kiln and Kengo Kuma's chicken coop, and a strip of coast nobody had heard of became a pilgrimage.
Three houses went up on the beach beside it, designed by Bosco Sodi, who had spent a decade watching Ando, Siza and Kalach work with concrete, brick and palm on this exact sand. Architectural Digest went to Oaxaca for them in 2020.
The house
The plan is simple, and that is the point. Five thatched pavilions, three with a king and a single, two with four singles, set around one open palapa where the living room, the long table and the kitchen share a single roof. The brick is by the same Oaxacan artisans who made the clay timbers for Muro, the 2017 wall in Washington Square Park. Stucco and exposed brick, polished concrete, palm overhead. Ceiling fans. The interiors are by Década, Lucía Corredor's Mexico City studio, and most of them stay with the house.
Past the palapa the pool runs long and straight toward the horizon across a deck of brick, and beyond it there is nothing but dune and the Pacific for the width of the lot. The airport is half an hour away; Casa Wabi is a few minutes on foot along the sand.
