A 33,600-square-foot compound, set on more than 40 acres of manicured hillside in the Mantiqueira Mountains in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is on sale for $11.5 million, according to an interview with Christie’s International Real Estate.
Built in 2007 by Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz, an architecture firm based in São Paulo, the estate, which is called the Grid House, is broken up into multiple modules delineated by a wooden grid of beams and columns. The house is roughly a 2.5 hour drive from São Paulo, which places it firmly in the position of a vacation home, rather than a place from which to commute. (A drive through the nearest town, the tiny São Francisco Xavier, takes less than three minutes.) …