{"id":29347,"date":"2025-10-31T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29347\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:33:10","slug":"coming-soon-the-legendary-rachofsky-house-is-hitting-the-market-for-23-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29347\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: The Legendary Rachofsky House Is Hitting the Market for $23 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Rachofsky House on Preston Road is the most well-known modern home in Dallas. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in 1996, the hybrid home and museum was the most talked-about property in Dallas for years. No one had really seen anything like it, well, at least not in Dallas. Although it has been quietly available since May, MLS reports the home as a \u201ccoming soon\u201d property with a $23 million price tag.<\/p>\n

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Meier built the innovative concept home for Howard Rachofsky, a former Wall Street guy and renowned contemporary art collector, who filled the Preston Road home like a museum for his collection. <\/p>\n

Fortunately, when Rachofsky met Cindy<\/a>, she shared his taste, and the Rachofskys\u2019 home became the most coveted invitation in town. The couple has hosted the annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art black-tie art auction and gala for 26 years, featuring performers such as Chaka Khan and Diana Ross. The event benefited the Dallas Museum of Art and amFar, The Foundation for AIDS Research, raising a total of over $130 million.<\/p>\n

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It was a bold move to hire Meier to build a house, but this was never meant to be just a home. With Rachofsky\u2019s notable art collection, this unique property was designed to serve as both a gallery for his collection and a venue for hosting events. <\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s not surprising that the 9,062-square-foot home was designed with only one bedroom, located on the third floor, although the library was eventually converted into a second bedroom on the second floor. The home has two full baths and four half-baths, four living areas, a kitchen with breakfast dining, a formal dining, an exercise room, and a glass office that\u2019s suspended between floors.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause this residence has been designed for an individual, we were able to explore in it certain materials and design elements that might otherwise have been impractical for a family. In other words, The Rachofsky House is an ideal \u2014 an investigation into all of the possibilities of house as a building type, without many of the usual compromises. I like to think that The Rachofsky House is a kind of elegant case study, an exercise that encourages us to reflect upon what our notions of house and home encompass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Meier<\/p>\n

Meier\u2019s residential work has always been as striking and sculptural as his commercial, museum, and public works. Think about the Getty Center in Los Angeles or The High Museum of Art in Atlanta. However, his signature style was actually honed on one of his residential projects, the 1969 Saltzman House in East Hampton. His use of geometric shapes and white color was born out of this commission, and has served him well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For the Rachofsky House, Meier\u2019s characteristically white, metal-paneled house appears almost suspended above a black-granite podium. It\u2019s situated on 3.204 acres with a large lagoon-like pond, a reflecting pool, a swimming pool, and a raised garden bed.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The house] unfolds as a kind of procession through a series of zones,\u201d Meier says in the listing, \u201ctaking one from the outdoors to indoors, and then back outdoors again\u2026grass, trees, pond, and sky are visible from every angle of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Meier\u2019s description of the home, he said, \u201cUltimately, the purpose of The Rachofsky House is to provide a place of residence and respite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compass Realtor Faisal Halum has The Rachofsky House at 8605 Preston Road <\/a>available for $23 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rachofsky House on Preston Road is the most well-known modern home in Dallas. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19772,19773,19774,102,104,16562,103,19775,19776,19777],"class_list":["post-29347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-8605-preston-rd","tag-architecturally-significant-dallas","tag-cindy-rachofsky","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-luxury-home","tag-dallas-news","tag-howard-rachofsky","tag-modern-architecture","tag-richard-meier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}