All-day sun and magnificent vistas of Aspen’s four ski areas and the Elk Mountain Range dominate the landscape and the residence. This is an idyllic parcel where you’ll enjoy feelings of rural quiet, yet be just minutes from downtown Aspen on paved roads.

Inside and out, traditional style and materials blend perfectly: integral-plaster walls, hardwood and flagstone floors, log columns and beams, latilla ceilings, large expanses of windows which take in the mountain vistas, and a floor plan that flows beautifully. This is a home with a short but interesting history. The original owner, an internationally-renowned cookbook author enamored with Santa Fe charms and the Aspen lifestyle, created a home centered around an extraordinary kitchen. Its second owner, an Academy award-winning actress, enhanced the master suite, privacy, and security. And now it has been rendered to perfection by its current owners, who have remodeled and expanded with a clarity of vision and a purity of design to created grand and formal entertaining spaces separate from charming and intimate family quarters.

The details: 9539 sq ft, 4 bedrooms/3.5 baths and a 1 bedroom/1 bath caretaker apartment; gracious living room; formal dining area; a den/media room; a gourmet kitchen for the most demanding culinary connoisseur; a sumptuous master wing on its own private floor; a family level exercise, game and hobby room, 1325 sq ft of decks and patio, and a 4-car heated garage. Make the journey through the massive 100-year-old Peruvian entry doors to explore a truly unique Aspen one-of-a-kind property.

Interior Features:

A welcoming entry through 12’ 100-year old Peruvian doors which were customized for this home; red flagstone floors; latilla ceiling.

A living room grand enough for entertaining, yet pleasantly serene for meditation. Hardwood floors; elegant plaster walls; log and wood ceiling; huge Southwest-style gas, log fireplace with flagstone hearth. Dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows with views of snow-capped peaks and all four ski areas; French doors to terrace.

Formal dining room with round pine table; built in buffet side table with a flagstone top; red flagstone floor; plastered ceiling with exposed logs; french doors to terrace and fireplace.

Main level powder room features unique Italian washed walls and an antique South American washstand with hammered metal basin.

Entertaining wing of the house can be closed off from family quarters with a pocket shoji screen.

Warm and charming den adjacent to the kitchen features comfortable sofa and window seats, a media center, a wall of floor to ceiling bookshelves and cabinets, cove and halogen lighting, flagstone floors, and a kiva-style woodburning fireplace with an adjacent, handy firewood pass through door to wood storage outside. This is where the family spends their time. Children, especially, adore the antique, hand-crafted chairs in front of the fireplace.

Extraordinary kitchen designed for entertaining by professional chefs: wood floors, generous granite slab countertops and back splashes, including a lowered baking center for pastry rolling, a butcher block island, and custom pine cabinets with twig fronts. Top-of-the line appliances include a Traulsen commercial-grade refrigerator/freezer, two Sub-Zero produce drawers, a Wolf 6 burner gas range with griddle and double ovens, a Thermador combination convection/microwave themal oven with a warming drawer, Marvel wine chiller, and two Asko dishwashers.

An elegant master bath has an enormous jetted tub set in a marble pedestal with a waterfall faucet. It’s surrounded by windows with twig shutters and has private views in three directions. Also included is a marble-tiled steam shower, glass block details, two vanities, mirrored make-up area, and a separate water closet with lav and bidet. Two incredible His and Hers dressing rooms with sophisticated closet hardware, glass sweater shelves, and skylights.

Other features: Executone telephone system with four lines and intercom. Cable TV, and satellite dish.

Caretaker Apartment: Berber-carpeted living/dining area. Full kitchen with GE appliances (including a 4 burner gas range) and hardwood floor. Private bedrooms with large closet. Huge laundry/storage room. Granite counters in kitchen and bath. Perfect as a mother-in-law apartment or as quarters for the owner’s staff, this large 1-bedroom has its own entrance and separate forced air furnace and humidification system.

Additional remarks: Carefully sited and nestled into a knoll to maximize privacy from neighbors and from which to appreciate both the dramatic mountain views and the nearby grazing deer.

This is one of the few properties which is protected from Mclain Flats Road frontage and traffic. No airport views.

The Rio Grande running/bike trail runs along the lower quarter of the property at the base of the hillside (out of view, but accessible).