Santa Teresa sits high enough above Rio to feel like a parallel version of the city, and it’s here, at the end of a unassuming road, that Chez George appears—a 1970s modernist residence turned guesthouse that still behaves like a private home. The pool stretches across the original 1970s terrace designed by Wladimir Alves de Souza, facing Sugarloaf across the jungle canopy. A 1970s Modernist Structure in Santa Teresa Santa Teresa sits above the noise of Rio de Janeiro, a neig