Gloria Guinness - Six Homes Around The World

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.