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Step through the entrance of a Yucatán hacienda at dusk and you understand immediately why travelers cross oceans to reach this peninsula. Stone walls older than the United States, still warm from an afternoon of equatorial[...]

The walls were standing, but only barely. When designer Laura Kirar and her partner Richard Frazier first walked the grounds of a ruined henequen estate outside Merida in 2008, what they found was not a building: it was a[...]