During the pandemic lockdown, Richard Arregui spotted a dramatic modernist home for sale on Zillow in the Ponce Davis area of Miami, his hometown. "It was like looking at a work of art," said the former art dealer turned collector, who stalked it online obsessively for weeks before the owner allowed an open house. Once inside, Richard and his wife, Susan, looked past the cluttered interior painted purple and yellow and appreciated how the fluid sculptural spaces opened to tropical greenery through glass expanses at every turn.
He realized he had been there before-at a 1990 cocktail party hosted by Gloria Luria, a pioneer of Miami's art scene who opened one of the first contemporary art galleries in the city. "It was an incredible home with incredible art by George Segal, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Larry Rivers," says Richard, who was 26 at the time and remembers imagining that he, too, would live in such a fantastic place when he became prominent in the art world.
Long way around, his dream has come true. In 2021, the Arreguis, their 12-year-old twins, Allegra and Ricardo (Kique), and four dogs moved with their trove of contemporary artworks and design objects into the house.
This story is from the March 2023 edition of Elle Decor US.
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