P
eru boasts one of the most arid landscapes on
earth: the Atacama Desert, stretching from the
Andes to the Pacific and south into Chile.
Hardly the lyrical desert of Georgia O’Keeffe and
Jack Kerouac, this brutal terrain rolls on for hundreds of
miles...
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P
eru boasts one of the most arid landscapes on
earth: the Atacama Desert, stretching from the
Andes to the Pacific and south into Chile.
Hardly the lyrical desert of Georgia O’Keeffe and
Jack Kerouac, this brutal terrain rolls on for hundreds of
miles without any gnarled sagebrush or stout cacti to break
up the monotony of sculpted dunes and barren mountains.
Inhospitable as they may seem, the desert beaches
south of Lima fill with day-trippers and the well-heeled
Limeños who summer in gated coastal communities.
Near the town of Cañete, about 85 miles south
of Lima, Peruvian businessman Edward Barclay developed one such high-end enclave: La Escondida.
The
horseshoe-shaped tract comprises 70 oceanfront lots,
terraced on three levels along a precipitously steep
sandy cliff cradling a secluded beach.
The developer
hired his daughter, Sandra Barclay, and her husband,
Jean Pierre Crousse, partners in Paris-based Barclay &
Crousse Architecture, to design a prototypical house
here, with t
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