Welcome to our property digest where we round up our top homes for sale or rent this week, in one bite-sized chunk. Peek inside an architect’s experimental passive home with a glass roof, and a Ghent beguinage that blends old and new.
Mickey Muennig’s Big Sur eco-home in California
3 bedrooms; $6.95m by Jeannie Ford of Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty
‘The man who built Big Sur’ designed this eco-estate as his own residence, starting in the 1980s. Mickey Muennig was an architect who followed Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles around organic architecture, designing his buildings to tread lightly on the earth. Sinuous volumes borrow from natural forms, with the main house designed around an expansive tropical indoor garden, with a tree protruding through its roof. The magical home is offered for sale following Muennig’s death last year, aged 86.
Converted beguinage in Ghent
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3 bedrooms; €1.945m via Immodome
Originally a 17th-century beguinage in Ghent, Belgium, this white-washed property straddles old and new, juxtaposing steel-frame Crittal partitions with beautiful, warped beams and ceilings. Modest accommodations designed by religious beguines have been reconfigured to create three bedrooms across the 3,261 sq ft building.
Midcentury modern coastal home in Øresund, Denmark
3 bedroom+; 12.5m DKK via Adam Schnack
Midcentury 1960s interiors channel quintessential Danish minimalism with white-painted brick and swathes of warm timber across this five-bedroom Rungsted property by Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert. The Danes are known for pioneering indoor/outdoor living, and this villa embraces this concept via sliding glass doors that open onto an outdoor terrace, shaded by the overhanging roof. The harbour is a stone’s throw from the house, which is surrounded by lush parkland.
1960s ranch-style home in Grenoble, France
4 bedrooms; €1.029m via Espaces Atypiques
Californian modernism is transported to the slopes of Claix, outside Grenoble at this 210 sq m home which dates from 1965 and was inspired by the breeze west coast style. Concrete, granite, steel and glass combine across its split levels though the eye-catcher is the combined living room and dining area, complete with a floating metal fireplace and sunken seating area. From the listing, it sounds as though it could use some modernisation though the temptation is strong to lean into its 1960s aesthetic. See more.
Live/work opportunity in Hudson Valley, New York
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2 bedrooms; $1.295m via Buying Upstate / Lillie K Team
This Hudson retail space and residence sits inside a Greek Revival building from the 1830s on Warren Street. Living space expands over 3,044 sq ft and includes two bedrooms, with the ground floor dedicated to a bricks-and-mortar retail store.
