obsessed with perfection

For a serious art collector, one’s home can double as a gallery, a sacred place to showcase prized possessions. For professional polo player Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras ( among the top players worldwide), that rule applies to his recently built stables in the Argentinean city of General Rodríguez, outside Buenos Aires. “These horses are our the art collection!” he declares. The stables hold 44 world-class polo ponies which can fetch prices similar to Old Master paintings in a strikingly contemporary, environmentally conscious structure.
For the stables, Figueras enlisted the Argentinean architect Juan Ignacio Ramos to execute his grand vision. The two met at a tournament when Figueras was 20 and have been friends ever since. “The concept was to build a sequence of beautiful spaces”, Ramos explains. “The fact that it is built in exposed cast concrete made the construction process very delicate. Fortunately, we hired a builder who fell in love with the project and was obsessed with doing everything to perfection.”