For four years, Robert Redford and his wife Sibylle Szaggars lived in a hillside “cottage” in Tiburon, with spectacular views of Angel Island and San Francisco Bay. They enjoyed Tiburon’s restaurants and promenade looking out towards San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, along with the community’s walking paths and “friendly vibe,” Redford once said.
The couple sold the house in December of last year, with Redford saying in an interview that they needed to spend more time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where his artist wife had a gallery and they both ran an arts nonprofit that produces work to promote global conservation efforts.
With news of Redford’s death Tuesday at age 89, several Tiburon residents remembered him as a gracious, unassuming man who liked to walk around town and patron