Monuments in the Desert-Contemporary art, ancient stone, and silence in AlUla.

A Saudi art patron who divides his time between Riyadh, London, and Paris, collects monumental contemporary works by artists from the Middle East and beyond, believes architecture should disappear into the landscape rather than compete with it, hosts artists and curators for long dinners beneath the stars, and wants his desert residence outside AlUla to feel less like a house than a private gallery carved from the earth—monumental, contemplative, and inseparable from the extraordinary landscape surrounding it.