Wrought Iron work of art in Mexico City: meet Dolores Patino Olindo collector's home.
This is the legacy of Dolores Olmedo Patino, a glamorous collector of contemporary Mexican art best known as one of muralist Diego Rivera's patrons and last lovers.
Olmedo was intriguing in her own right. A self-made businesswoman, she assembled a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, modern folk art and paintings by Frida Kahlo — the largest group in Mexico — that takes in 400 years of Mexican history. It's all displayed in a restored 16th-century hacienda set beside an expanse of plush lawns with wailing, strutting peacocks, geese, ducks and a pack of Mexican hairless dogs called Xoloitzcuintles wandering the grounds — 
all Olmedo's pets before her death in 2002.
Inside, you wander through drawing rooms packed with Mayan incense burners, papier-mâché skeletons, depictions of Acapulco sunsets and a spectacular Olmec jade mask, along with a cross section of the artistic life of Rivera and Kahlo, Mexico's most famous painters.
Check out more about this incredible work of art at the Dolores Olmedo Patino website! Fantastic wrought iron gates await you!
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