If bigger is better, this palatial Palm Beach spread owned in the 1980s by an heir to the Gucci family fits the bill and has two swimming pools to boot. And, if real estate bragging rights matter, at $205 million, the legacy property is officially the most expensive home currently on the market in South Florida.
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Aldo Gucci, who served as chairman of the sometimes feuding family’s eponymous fashion house, may have once owned the property, but the house he lived in was long ago razed and replaced in 2005 by a coral-colored Mediterranean Revival mansion reminiscent of the grand old piles designed for early 19th-century tycoons by legendary Palm Beach architects Addison Mizner and Marion Syms Wyeth.
The existing house was built by Frank and Maureen Wilkins, who acquired the land in 2002 for $13.9 million. The Wilkins, both of whom have passed away, oversaw the construction of the opulent residence, which they used primarily as their winter home. Across its 23,000-plus square feet are gracious reception rooms embellished with artisan-crafted details, including hand-plastered walls and ceiling stencilling…