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Insta_House with Architect Maziar Behrooz

By HRES Staff
April 30, 2015

Architect Maziar Behrooz says that to create an extraordinary building, you need to take something away. With the $149,000 insta_House, he’s put that precept into stylish practice. Architecture, the critic Robert Hughes observed, “is the one art no one can escape...

Interior Designer James Huniford

By Kelli Delaney
April 2, 2015

The living room is the heart of the home. “Especially when you’re at the beach,” says Manhattan interior designer James Huniford. Because of the particular joys of entertaining in the Hamptons—a mood set by the sun, the sea, the thrill of the getaway—Huniford’s approach to a Hamptons living room creates a relaxed environment geared towards social gatherings, from intimate moments with one or two friends, to large parties where a never ending parade of guests may be marching through the front door.

Home Remedies

By HRES Staff
April 2, 2015

Though national home furnishings chains are seeping onto the South Fork more and more—think Ethan Allen, Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, and the upcoming Home Goods—there is a generous assortment of local emporiums, each with its own distinct personality.

Amagansett Legacy

By HRES Staff
April 2, 2015

In 1979 Michelle Murphy and Robert Strada, a young couple who’d known each other only eight months, began to look for their perfect Hamptons house. Real estate agent Ceil Ackley took them to a shingle-style Amagansett house built in 1894 to give them an idea of the sort of old-world house they sought. Alas, it wasn’t for sale. Yet the pair fell so in love with the authentic relic of times past that a deal was soon struck.

Liquid Assets

By HRES Staff
March 6, 2015

Perhaps the ultimate Hamptons pool is one being built in Southampton as we speak. Made by the Tortorella Group it boasts two outer walls made entirely of glass—the better to view the ocean. Another Tortorella pool, in Sagaponack, has been elevated to allow people to walk underneath and look up through its glass floor.

Massive Makeover

By HRES Staff
March 6, 2015

John Tarbet and his wife, Jennifer, had their eye on the house at 29 Huntting Lane in East Hampton for quite a while. The Queen Anne-style abode, which was built for the family of prominent merchant and farmer Henry D. Hedges in...

Breathe Easy

By HRES Staff
March 6, 2015

You’ve learned how to prepare kale in 18 different ways. And you’d never think of eating a nonorganic strawberry, but have you considered how toxins are seeping into the air from just about everything in your home? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, our indoor air is three times more polluted than outdoor air. And we spend 90 percent of our time indoors. What to do?

50 Shades of Blue

By Kelli Delaney
March 5, 2015

Mabley Handler Interior Design was founded in the Hamptons when Jennifer Mabley, an accomplished interior designer in New York City, was commissioned to design and decorate a house in the estate section of Southampton Village.

Historic Keepsake

By HRES Staff
February 5, 2015

“Historic Howell House In Bridgehampton May Be Demolished,” read the January headline in 27East.com. Francois de Menil, the owner of the 1840 house (and brother of Adelaide de Menil, who famously donated a clutch of historic buildings to the Town of East Hampton), has applied to demolish the historic Quimby Lane dwelling. That announcement came on the heels of the tragic razing of the important Pyrrhus Concer House in Southampton.

The Greening of the Hamptons

By HRES Staff
February 5, 2015

What makes a house “green”? Energy efficiency is the number one feature, according to Peter Sabbeth. As head of Modern Green Home, a Bridgehampton firm since 2006, he ought to know. Following close behind, he says, are air quality and sustainable materials.