Yahoo Finance Peek inside a Gucci heiress's Moroccan-flavored California desert compound
For a $7.5 million three-house compound designed by an heiress to an Italian fashion dynasty, Patricia Gucci's Moroccan-flavored home in the Southern California desert is surprisingly unpretentious.
The couches look comfortably squashy. Bedroom walls are stenciled with fanciful birds or a golden sun in place of ornate headboards. The kitchen is warm and approachable, with blue tile countertops and stained wood cabinets.
It's even on the discount rack, so to speak: Gucci has been trying to sell it since at least 2012, when she listed it at $9 million. Now it's on the market for $7.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Gucci — daughter of Aldo Gucci and granddaughter of Gucci company founder Guccio Gucci — bought a one-bedroom home on the site in 1993, tearing it down and adding acreage as she built the compound on the outskirts of Joshua Tree National Park. She lived here full time with her family of three daughters for years, according to the Los Angeles Times.
She has since moved her home base to Switzerland, necessitating a sale: "My life and family are in Europe now, and I no longer have time to enjoy this little corner of paradise," she told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.
The property, called La Casa Azzurra ("blue house" in Italian), also appears to be available as a vacation rental. The website says that rates are available only upon request and that visitors must stay at least two weeks, but a listing on TripAdvisor says the price starts at $3,250 a night.
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