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Art Collector’s Home Features a Ramp for Viewing the Collection

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The immense kitchen of an intriguing and huge house for art collectors in Brazil looks more like a high end retail establishment than a place to cook.

Instead of stairs, the house features an unusual ramp for walking up, to contemplate all the art displayed on the walls.

This angled walking ramp inclines gently and doubles back at a walkable pace, rather than at the steeper angle of a staircase.

Designed by Denise Macedo Arquitetos Associados, the house revolves around the clients’ very extensive art collection.

Sited in Nova Lima, Brazil, the house is surrounded by nature and represents a highly civilized respite from it.

No intermediate landscaping interrupts the awe-inspiring distant surrounding landscape, which is offered up, like an art piece, for viewing at a remove.

The completely private setting on extensive private land means the bedroom can be fully open to the landscape.

Entertaining in this stunning glass box with its vast views of distant mountains will surely be a memorable experience.

Like a large scale commercial building, a museum perhaps, the house is constructed of steel structural beams.

When not enjoying the art that they own, they can enjoy browsing a store-like supply of art magazines showing all the art they do not yet own.

Altogether this is a very civilized home on a very vast scale for a couple who are clearly very significant patrons of the arts.