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Ranching heir Félix Saturnino de Álzaga Unzué built La Mansión in 1920 as a gift to his bride, Elena. The beaux arts structure is now to the Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires. For the property, EDG Interior Architecture + Design conceived a restaurant and polo-themed bar that take aesthetic cues from the mansion itself and other turn-of-the-century residences nearby. Evocative of an open , the two-story main dining showcases the firm’s twist on traditional checkerboard flooring: honed Carrara marble tile dry-laid in a herringbone pattern. Patrons ascend to the mezzanine by way of a curving steel staircase. Loads of tableware or wine bottles, however, are conveyed up and down via a more whimsical mode of transport: a hand-cranked . Hand-tooled leather cladding nods to gaucho culture, as do the semicircular booths surrounded by partitions made of vertical leather straps that approximate bridle reins. The neighboring Pony Line bar-lounge is replete with alpaca silver detailing and parchment-clad steamer trunks reworked as cocktail tables. The firm’s favorite aspect of the

project? The “secret” link between restaurant and lounge: A black-and-white marble path leads past the bar and and through the , like a ’s back stair.

Clockwise from opposite: Carrara marble accents the exhibition kitchen. The restaurant’s dry-laid marble herringbone was carefully honed to a level surface. Hammered alpaca silver, inset with strips of horn, clads a wall behind the bar at Pony Line. In the pantry passage, leading from Elena to Pony Line, open shelves display tableware.

PROJECT TEAM Jennifer Johanson, Cindy KupKa, Catharine tarver, sarah Lauffer, sondra Law, ifrane Brennan ARCHITECT OF RECORD sánChez eLía CONTRACTOR oBras y sistemas SUBCONTRACTOR La renaissanCe DESIGN meLinda morrison Lighting OPERATOR four seasons hoteL Buenos aires PHOTOGRAPHY Juan hitters www.edgdesign.com

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Clockwise from above: Wine being sent to the mezzanine on a custom iron dumbwaiter. A view down the “secret” passage between restaurant and bar. Circular dining pavilions at either end of the mezzanine overlook the expansive main dining level. At Elena, leather partitions separating the banquettes draw inspiration from the world of polo.

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