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Size doesn’t matter, at least not if Christopher Burch is correct. Tory’s ex and the entrepreneur behind her fashion line and highly ambitious but now defunct retail chain, C. Wonder, is betting on little houses. You might think that the Hamptons, with their ego-driven mammoth mansions, would be the last place on earth to showcase a tiny, prefab (horrors!) abode.
An Amagansett electrical contractor designed the house of his dreams. No one would ever guess that the main parts came from a factory.
Vines are seldom the stars of the garden or landscape, but they play important supporting roles in many successful landscapes. Vines enhance the focal points and features of the garden, and in the right location at the right time of year can have their chance to shine, too.
“You can judge the quality of a house by the quality of its art,” so said Rick Friedman, the head of Art Hamptons during his latest art fair in July. And many builders, brokers and interior designers have discovered that staging houses with art helps their properties sell.
One of the Hamptons’ hidden treasures is Pembrooke Fine Landscapes, a boutique landscape design/build company that for ten years has worked with select clients. Pembrooke’s founding partner, Bill D’Agata, is as talented as he is meticulous, overseeing the smallest detail.
It used to be that a media room was de rigueur in the upscale Hamptons residence. Not so any longer. Ditto for wine cellars. While awfully nice (especially for oenophiles), they’re a bit passé. Gyms are still the norm but yoga rooms are much more now. Homeowners on the South Fork are nothing if not trendy.
For the past decade, Gary DePersia has considered himself fortunate to represent and sell the homes being built in the Hamptons by M & M Custom Homes, an organization founded some 15 years ago by Marc Underberg and Michael Axelrod. Starting with the development of real estate and the building of houses on the Gold Coast of Long Island and western Suffolk county, M & M Custom Homes came out to the Hamptons a decade ago to offer exceptional homes, both north and south of the highway, from East Hampton to Southampton.
Large and shingle-style are often the first words that come to mind when thinking of homes in the Hamptons. In the last few years, one of those descriptions has changed. The ubiquitous “shingle-style” home has some people looking around for a more modern house, one with the warmth of tradition but with modern details for clean lines and convenience.
Award-winning architect Stuart Narofsky’s office may be in Long Island City, but he has designed many a noteworthy residence in the Hamptons, along with his wife, Jennifer Rusch, who handles the interiors. The couple lives with their children in the bucolic upstate town of Chatham...
Set the stage for the Hamptons holiday weekend in style. Mix and match your tabletop decor with red, white and blue accents...