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Less is More at the Biltmore

Manhattan: Meet the desert.

Story by David M. Brown / Photographed by Howard Kuflik 

Douglas and sonia bendt often stroll from their penthouse to the landmark Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix. The journey is just across a stone bridge over the historic Arizona Canal, part of a system originally dug by the Hohokam Indians to green the desert more than a millennium ago. The Bendts’ 3,190-sq.-ft. home is part of the Fairway Lodge at the Biltmore, a two-phase project designed by the Tempe office of RSP Architects and developed and marketed by Phoenix-based Geneva Holdings.