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Hamptons Cottages & Gardens - August-15 2014
Highlights from the Fourth Annual HC&G Innovation in Design Awards
On Thursday, August 7, HC&G (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens) hosted its fourth annual HC&G Innovation in Design Awards at Guild Hall of East Hampton. Here, highlights from the event, which included a cocktail party furnished by Room & Board and an awards ceremony where first place and runner-up trophies were given in the categories of Architecture, Interior Design, Kitchen and Bath Design, Garden Design and Innovative Product. Madeline Weinrib was presented with the 2014 HC&G Innovator Award.
Architect Preston Phillips’s Bridgehampton Home and Studio Speaks Volumes About His Work
The house is a machine for living” is not a phrase that immediately conjures feelings of comfort and domestic tranquility, yet Le Corbusier’s words have been a mantra for architects since he wrote them in 1923. For Bridgehampton-based architect Preston Phillips, the master’s words couldn’t be more appropriate. While Phillips’s house, tucked deep in the woods near the Bridge-Sag Turnpike, might seem anything but “homey” to some, he designed it with comfort and style in mind.
Manhattan Design Firm Workshop/apd Creates an Environmentally Friendly Home by Mecox Bay
It’s an especially rare kind of kismet: clients who click with their architects right off the bat, who come to the table knowing exactly what they want their dream house to be. But it happened for Vicki Kaplan and her family when they hired the Manhattan design firm Workshop/apd to create a new home in Water Mill, overlooking a pristine reserve a stone’s throw from Mecox Bay.
Hamptons Architects You Should Know
Meet some of the most talented and successful architects in the area, experts who understand the importance of a well-designed home.
East Hampton–Based Architect Maziar Behrooz Designs an Art-Filled House That’s Perfect from Every Angle
For many people, a primary residence calls for a more ordered existence, but in a weekend house, there are no rules. Marie-Ève and Michel Berty realized this widely accepted truth when they bought a house in the Hamptons. The couple started visiting the East End not long after moving to New York from their native France, and it didn’t take long before they desired a place of their own.
When it Comes to Architecture, Gary Lawrance Thinks Small
As a young boy, Gary Lawrance made elaborate houses from playing cards and “Little Golden” books, castles from sand, and towering pyramids from Dixie cups. Approximately 50 years later, not much has changed. Now an authority on architectural model-making and the principal of Lawrance Architectural Presentations, he uses more sophisticated materials, but the goal is more or less the same.
Five Hamptons Designers Tell Us Their Favorite Way to Get to the Beach
We asked designers Helen Gifford, Catherine Malandrino, Ippolita Rostagno, Timothy Brown and Bob Balaban how they prefer to get to the beach.
New and Notable Design Objects from the Hamptons and Beyond: Hit the Beach
What would summer in the Hamptons be without some quality time at the shore? Just be sure to equip yourself with everything you’ll need.
Architect Nick Martin Helps Transform the Amagansett Home of Art Dealer John Cheim
In the late 1980s, when Cheim & Read gallery co-founder John Cheim bought his Amagansett retreat, it was a diminutive barn-red 1960 kit house on a half-acre lot, dominated by a prodigious weeping willow. He did away with the driveway (“I didn’t want to see cars in my yard,” he says), enclosed the property with plantings for privacy, painted the house white, and then hid the structure in a lovely tangle of wisteria and trumpet vines.
