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Your House Is a Masterpiece. Why Can't You Sell It?

Turns out, artful living can be a burden.
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In the late 1960s, the architect Luis Barragán was commissioned to create an equestrian compound in Mexico City with stables, a four-bedroom main house, riding paddocks, and a shallow pool for horses to refresh themselves.

It was in the latter part of Barragán’s celebrated career (he later won a coveted Pritzker Prize), and the property, called Cuadra San Cristóbal, was adjacent to the exclusive equestrian French Club.