Six Homes Around The World
The Guinnesses had an apartment in Manhattan's expensive Waldorf Towers, an Eighteenth Century farmhouse called Villa Zanroc in Epalinges near Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plied the Mediterranean in the summer, a seven-story house on Avenue Matignon in Paris, decorated by Georges Geffroy (1903–1971), a stud farm in Normandy, Haras de Piencourt near Guy de Rothschild, a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Florida. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected by a specially built tunnel under the highway that Mrs. Guinness has had decorated with furniture and screens painted by a young French artist she is interested in. They also had a house in Acapulco, Mexico. She commissioned the Mexican architect Marco Antonio Aldaco to design the house in Acapulco.
They also kept three planes—an Avro Commander for short hauls around Europe, a small jet, a helicopter for Loel Guinness' hops between the Lake Worth house and the Palm Beach golf course.
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