In England, the country homes of the aristocracy are famous; Blenheim Palace and Chatsworth or Highclere Castle are defining statements on the wealth and taste of the ruling class. Piles like these exist in the United States, but are usually less well known or publicized. Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone was modeled on similar themes, but is more of a private museum. Newport is filled with grandiose “cottages,” but few are architecturally distinguished, and most have never been filled with important art. (Stephen Schwarzman has had to backfill his Miramar project to bring the art up to a noteworthy level.) Long before any of these projects took shape, Anne and her then husband, billionaire investor Sid Bass, commissioned one of the most prominent mid-century architects, Paul Rudolph, to design their Fort Worth home. “Working closely with Paul Rudolph,” Max Carter said in Christie’s press release, “the Basses imagined the home they wished to live in, attending to the effortless flow and function of its rooms as carefully as the objects they would surround themselves with.” Rudolph’s fame and stature are now diminished—the Met just tried to revive his reputation—but he was a groundbreaking architect in his day, serving as dean of the Yale School of Architecture when Sid Bass was a student there. The Basses approached him about designing their home while still in their twenties. The result was a floating white steel-and-glass structure that is “Rudolph at his most lyrical, even dramatic, as well as his most refined,” the architectural critic Paul Goldberger wrote in the catalog. “It is a house that, had it been better known, might have shifted the trajectory of Rudolph’s entire career.” Rudolph also proposed that the landscaping and gardens surrounding the house be equally well conceived. He brought in Russell Page, who designed the gardens at the Frick and the extraordinary grounds of the PepsiCo headquarters in Westchester County, New York. The Basses did not publicize their home. For 15 years, in fact, it remained unphotographed. But when the couple famously divorced, in 1988, Anne kept the house in Fort Worth—and kept it up in pristine condition for nearly four decades, even though she used it less and less. Now, the art from the Paul Rudolph house will be sold at Christie’s during the May sales, with a combined estimate of $60 million.