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Legorreta’s Sotogrande is a Work of Art

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The gorgeously colored Sotogrande House designed by Mexico’s celebrated Richard Legorreta with Francisco Cortina is like a giant’s building block set that has been playfully sprawled out onto the rich Spanish earth of Andalusia’s Mediterranean coast.

The richly saturated color and the simplicity of the big bold shapes makes it seem as if we are in a giant’s gigantic nursery out under the hot Spanish sun.

There’s a giddy excitement in these richly saturated colors.

The color is half of the thrill. The shapes are where the real fun is had. Here, a bold childlike staircase has been designed to exactly catch the sun and make it repeat the giant’s crazy zigzag pattern on a whim.

It’s as if some goofy giant toddler just threw together a toy structure. That this bold colorful shape makes an actual working staircase seems just felicitous. Really, this stair is a sun sculpture.

Inspired by Mexican vernacular architecture, the flamingo pinks, purples and burnt sienna shapes contrast powerfully with the gigantic cutouts and zig zag shapes.

The riot of colour and light perfectly frames the Andalucian countryside and complements its turquoise seascapes.

You almost have to dive in to this deep turquoise water just to escape from the almost unbearable intensity of the rich colors.

Being in this space would be almost like walking into and inhabiting a cubist sculpture park.

Even the sun has been roped into playing the rhythmic game of dark and light, shadow and form in aubergine and then siena and old dusty rose.

But the childlike playfulness has also generated some real wealth. The huge 2006 7,100 sq ft work of art on the Mediterranean sea coast of Spain was recently on the market at over €3,500,000. Now it’s sold.