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“Westhampton Beach is the first Hamptons village you come upon when driving east to the Hamptons. WHB is also the place I held my first real job, and my first home away from home. So, when it came time to interview Craig Amodemo, owner and broker of Hamptons Estates Realty, I wanted to be the one, because WHB has always been near and dear to my heart.”
Modern is the go-to architectural style in the Hamptons these days, at least for the uber wealthy. That’s a good thing for Bridgehampton’s Barnes Coy Architects who have been designing sleek abodes for going on three decades. While most Hamptonites were building rambling shingle-style mansions, co-principals of the award-winnning firm, Rob Barnes and Christopher Coy, were focusing on loft-like spaces with vast transparencies that merge the barrier between outdoors and indoors.
Whether he is designing a custom residence, new boutique hotel, or an exclusive line of furniture and textiles, interior designer Campion Platt has one thing on his mind: luxury. “Luxury is about both materiality and context,” he explains, adding, “context might mean creating clear, open spaces within the confines of a Manhattan residence, or selecting opulent finishes – such as leather, resin, or marble – to accentuate spatial forms.
The biggest real estate news is November’s listing of another record-breaking property price... with countless media outlets covering it from the Los Angeles Times to the New York Post. Just ...
“What is going on in the Hamptons real estate market now and what do you see happening in the near future?” 2014 has been, by far, the strongest real estate market we have seen and I see no signs of things slowing. Oceanfront properties are at a premium and there is little inventory.
By all accounts, 2014 was a phenomenal year for Hamptons real estate. With sales volumes up across the board, new construction in high demand, and an uptick in prices, the market is predicted to do extremely well in 2015.
An interior designer mother and film publicist daughter have teamed up to target an undeserved market: homeowners who would normally not hire an interior designer, but who yearn to express their inner aesthetic on a budget. Sourcing from estate sales and stylish discount furnishing outlets, the duo access their own “sophisticated, original and quirky” sensibilities while interpreting the needs of their clients.
Evergreens bring color and form to the winter landscape when flowers are gone and other trees are bare and gray. Evergreens, as their name implies, stay green all year around. And they’re not just green. They come in vivid bright greens, deep forest greens, soft blue-greens, even bright gold. There are blue-toned varieties of Atlas cedar, spruce, false cypress, Leyland cypress and juniper. For golds look into Japanese holly, junipers, Leyland cypress, false cypress and Scotch pine. Some evergreens take on ruddy or bronze tones in winter.
There are three types of people who keep wine cellars according to Michael Cinque, owner of Amagansett Wines & Spirits: those who treat it like a commodity -- “gold in the basement,” those who talk about their wine, and his final and favorite kind – those who drink it.