modern love
by Ben Ikenson photographs by Amadeus Leitner
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hough Kay Wade and Larry Levy both turned 70 recently, two more youthful folks you’d be hard-pressed to meet. They’re stepping into their next decade in great health and extraordinary style, with no crusty convention to hold them back. After having found each other a couple of years ago in a thoroughly modern way—on Match.com—the couple is settling into their newly built contemporary home in Albuquerque’s Ridgecrest neighborhood. A great deal of imagination went into creating the 2,850-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bath modern masterpiece, which was completed in April 2016 and then almost immediately featured in the Spring Homes of Enchantment Parade. But imagination often falls short of reality. “When we first walked into the place, we were just blown away,” says Levy, a local real estate developer and longtime investor. “We thought, we get to live here? It’s even better than we could have imagined.” Wade, a retired psychiatric hospital CEO and veteran real estate investor, had long been eyeing the vacant double lot just down the street from where she’d been living for nearly three decades in the one of the neighborhood’s first houses, built in the 1920s.
order, harmony, and serenity—courtesy of clean lines and simple design
On a corner lot in Albuquerque’s Ridgecrest neighborhood, Kay Wade and Larry Levy’s sleek, contemporary home is all angles and carefully layered clean lines: metal-clad soffits on top, block walls on bottom, and translucent extension panels in the middle.
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S U C A S A A U t U m n 2016
Right: Wade mixed and matched seating at her glass-top dining room table, pairing with it a curvilinear chandelier and unique horn candleholders. SUCASAmAGAZInE.COm
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