The Gradow/Benton house makes it look almost demure by comparison.Įven its location is otherworldly. All the same, they gave it the Record House of the Year award, Prince’s third such accolade. His Corona del Mar residence for the art collector Joe Price was described by the Architectural Record in 1991, at the time of its construction, as ‘not restrained by traditional notions of good taste’. So salubrious is the area, in fact, it has the dubious distinction of its very own tribute in song by former resident John Denver, titled, with the songster’s signature simplicity, ‘Starwood in Aspen’.īenton’s house is a masterpiece by Bart Prince, the Albuquerque architect who cut his teeth working with Bruce Goff and who has since built some of the most unusual and acclaimed houses in the American West. It is located in Starwood, an enclave of the rich and famous, located just outside the ski resort of Aspen. The one-time Playboy cover girl (you may fondly recall March 1970), one-time main squeeze of Hugh Hefner (long, long before the self-parody got out of hand), occasional singer (still pretty big in Sweden) and the celluloid star of classics such as Naughty Cheerleader and The Great American Beauty Contest (a turn as Miss Iowa, for any cineastes out there), is now an inventive interior designer.īenton and her husband, a terrifyingly well-preserved 68-year-old trailer park developer called George Gradow, own one of the finest modern houses in America.
Benton was responsible for her boudoir’s defiantly rococo interiors and much else in this remarkable Colorado house.
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