In early 2021, after they spent some time frolicking in Aspen, sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner swapped their Loewe snow boots for a trove of teeny-weeny bikinis, hopped aboard Kylie’s $73-million snack-packed PJ, and headed south to Costa Careyes, a secluded oceanfront resort community and nature preserve along Mexico’s rugged Pacific Coast that for decades has been a somewhat under-the-radar private playground popular with the international glitterati.
Rented at a cost of at least $6,500 per night, the social media mavens — they count more than 650 million Instagram followers between them! — holed up in a spectacular, marigold hued villa perched on a high cliff above the emerald ocean. The 20-something-year-old siblings, and one of their galpals, spent several days inducing some sunbaked social media FOMO with their scads of carefully posed selfies that showcased the villa’s extraordinary architecture and rarefied setting. Known as Sol de Oriente and recently hoisted on the open market, the audacious and eminently Instagrammable clifftop vacation compound is now available on a more permanent basis for those who can entertain the $15 million asking price.
In 1968, then 42-year-old Italian artist, banker and real estate developer Gian Franco Brignone flew over a deserted stretch of rain forest and jagged coastline between the port city of Manzanillo and the resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Though there were no roads that connected the land to the nearby towns, Brignone nonetheless saw his future in the remote 20,000 acres of land and eight-mile stretch of deserted coastline that he quickly acquired. The businessman and bon vivant envisioned a magical high-end hideaway for a global coterie of artists, celebrities, and deep-pocketed bohemians to come together for inspiration and relaxation. Numerous innovative architects were enlisted over the years to design fantastical, vividly colored homes built with skilled local artisans. His goal was to “create a new form of architecture, with rounded, feminine walls of ‘elephant skin’ stucco, reminiscent of the Mediterranean, but with sky-high, palapa-style roofs. “
The antithesis of Cancún and less accessible than Tulum, both geographically and financially, today there are but 100 or so residences of various sizes plus several dozen five-star rooms at a boutique beachfront hotel. Fashion and showbiz heavy hitters such as Tom Ford, Robert De Niro, Mick Jagger and Uma Thurman have all made the trek to the paparazzi-free enclave. (Indeed, The Hollywood Reporter once called it “Hollywood’s best kept secret.”) Numerous eccentric artworks and installations are displayed across the secluded resort, which counts fewer than 50 year-round residents, and for the last five or six years, every November, a select few of the world’s boho beau monde gather at Careyes for Ondalinda, an über-luxe by-invitation-only Burning Man-like festival of art, spirituality, and wellness.
Designed by visionary French architect Jean-Claude Galibert in collaboration with Brignone, Sol de Oriente was completed in 1999 and offers owners and guests the ne plus ultra of privacy. Capped by a triple-decker palapa and encircled by a moat-like infinity-edge pool, the star-shaped main villa, known as The Castle, offers three deluxe bedroom suites and thousands of square feet of open-air living spaces that spill out to numerous terraces and the swimming pool.
Set into the jungled hillside below the pool, two ocean-view casitas each contain a bedroom, bathroom and patio, while a two-story tower with another bedroom and bath is set near the cliff’s edge. A long, glute-firming stairway connects the accessory villas to The Castle but the tower suite is also and less exhaustingly accessible via funicular! Extensive staff quarters are housed in a separate building.
As unique as Sol de Oriente is, just across the small bay that forms crescent-shaped Playa Careyitos sits Sol De Occidente, its mirror image, only in pale green.
Brignone passed away earlier this year, at 96 years old, and his singular vision and legacy for Careyes is now being managed and carried forth by his family and heirs. Now owned by Brignone’s son, Filippo Brignone, Sol de Oriente is available though Denise Moreno and Gordon MacGeachy at Carolwood Estates.
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