Post by sputnik on Apr 5, 2022 14:41:54 GMT
yes, please. i think i could move right into this one without changing a thing.
Step Inside this Classic-Meets-Contemporary East Hampton Compound
Interior designer Neal Beckstedt brings a sense of laid-back luxury to this family retreat
By Hannah Martin
Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson
In an East Hampton property with interiors by Neal Beckstedt, the farmhouse’s double-height dining room walls are covered in a floral Josef Frank linen. Vintage rattan chairs and seats by Charlotte Perriand gather round the 17th-century Spanish dining table.
In one family’s Long Island compound, two hallmarks of Hamptons architecture stand side by side—a 19th-century Shingle Style saltbox festooned with hydrangeas (they call it the farmhouse) and its super-modern foil, heavy on the glass, by New York City firm Architecture Outfit.
“East Hampton is our escape; it’s where we go to breathe and relax,” explains the client, who lives here with her husband and two sons. They acquired the tumbledown farmhouse in 2018 and knew they wanted a more contemporary counterpoint. “We needed to find an interior designer who could tie together these two very different structures.”
New York City–based firm Architecture Outfit restored the 19th-century shingle-clad saltbox and created the contemporary glass house and cabana from the ground up.
Luckily, the clients have a family member in the design world—tastemaking shop owner Kate Rheinstein Brodsky (AD featured her own Hamptons place in May 2020)—and she knew the perfect guy for the job. Brodsky had recently clicked with New York City–based decorator Neal Beckstedt at a dinner party, so she made the intro and the rest is history.
The client responded to Beckstedt’s knack for what she calls “laid-back luxury,” a look he honed for a decade working for architect Russell Groves before launching his own business in 2010. An early project for fashion designer Derek Lam (AD, September 2015) set the groundwork for his practice, and, as Beckstedt reports, “it’s been bananas ever since,” one client leading to the next, with a little help from Instagram and a cult-favorite Kips Bay Show House sitting room.
The sunken lounge is outfitted with a custom sofa system covered in Japanese denim. The rug is Moroccan.
A vintage twig table and Harvey Probber Headboard in the gingham-wrapped guest room. The paintings are by the homeowner’s grandmother.
For this project, Beckstedt recalls, “the client wanted something that was understated and livable—not stuffy. A new approach to the Hamptons.” And most importantly, “they were not afraid of color.”
As the main house was being built, the decorating started in the farmhouse, a landmarked timber-framed structure that Architecture Outfit restored to its original footprint. Here, Beckstedt leaned into the traditional architecture, indulging some of his more fanciful ideas. A heavy linen floral by Josef Frank was applied to the walls in the double-height dining room. The kitchen got a tumbling block tile backsplash. A fleet of whimsical Swedish antiques filled the bedrooms, and crisp ginghams and stripes—a Hamptons classic—were applied to the walls. The clients were down for all of it. In fact, the rather playful interiors were a perfect backdrop for a handful of charming still-life paintings by the husband’s grandmother.
In the main living room, a 1950s daybed by Ejner Larsen and Aksel Bender Madsen, a sofa by Vladimir Kagan, and a pair of chairs by Pierre Paulin surround a 1970s cocktail table by Angelo Mangiarotti.
“There’s a bit of a point-counterpoint relationship going on,” explains Thaddeus Briner, principal of Architecture Outfit, of the pair of houses situated between two parcels of conservation land. “Both have shingles and gables, for instance, and the sizes of both buildings are fairly humble. But there it sort of stops.” And those differences extend to the interiors. In the sun-washed main house, with a pavilion-like structure and giant sliding 12-foot-tall glass walls, the decoration is more subdued. Spaces were oriented toward the landscapes—exquisitely planted by LaGuardia Design Group—and Beckstedt took care to give those views ample room to breathe. Here, he used large planes of primary colors (a nod to international style architects like Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld), taking color cues from a 1952 sculpture by Fernand Léger and ceramic artists from Ateliers Brice.
“The client loves to joke, though it’s not really a joke, that he built a house for that sculpture,” recalls Beckstedt, who injected colors from the artwork throughout the house—an olive green wall, goldenrod Pierre Paulin chairs, cobalt-blue kitchen cabinets. He balanced out those bold hues with more rustic materials, such as the 1960s vintage pine desk by Axel Einar Hjorth in the study, a rattan pendant light by Atelier Vime in the kitchen, and a pair of Ingo Maurer’s cult-favorite Uchiwa fan sconces in the bedroom. A suite of vintage textiles adds even more warmth—rugs from Marrakech and Turkey, loads of African prints and patterns sourced on Etsy—giving the place a global, eclectic feel the client wanted.
A custom bed is flanked by Ingo Maurer’s Uchiwa sconces and bamboo chests by Tom Robinson Modern.
Pottery barn stools and plates by Dalila Chessa add flavor to the blue kitchen.
“My husband and I have roots in many different parts of the Middle East, mainly Lebanon,” explains the client, who brought a handful of family heirlooms, including mother-of-pearl chests and mirrors from Syria and Lebanon, to the project. “We wanted to be able to infuse this mixed identity throughout the home, in order to keep it warm and not too cold and modern.”
Blooming hydrangeas festoon the farmhouse lawn, outfitted with custom Adirondack chairs, designed by Beckstedt, and a shimmering blue pool to match.
The family in the cabana.
A 1960s desk by Axel Einar Hjorth and lamp by Sidse Werner in the office.
A 1940s armchair, Flos sconces, and Turkish rug in the bath.
In the farmhouse, an antique Swedish cabinet sits with a 1960s French armchair. The floor lamp by Orrefors is topped with a basket.
The door of the cedar-shingled farmhouse is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Blue Jean. Laguardia Design Group handled the landscaping.
A 19th-century four-poster bed with vintage lamp and rattan side table in a guest room.
A Fernand Léger and Ateliers brice ceramic wall hanging inspired the color palette for the main house.
A 1970s indigo Moroccan rug electrifies the entryway, filled with a 1980s lamp by Gae Aulenti, a Thonet cane chair, and a pair of rattan stools snagged at the Paris flea market. The artwork is by Lara Baladi.
A blue-check linen from Wells Textiles covers the walls in the twin guest room, where the vintage headboards are by Danny Ho Fong and the bamboo stools from Neo Studio.
In the farmhouse, where the wood floors were reclaimed from a barn in Tennessee, the kitchen features tiles from Mosaic House, a retro SMEG refrigerator, and 1950s French Pendants.
Beneath the vintage coral chandelier, furnishings from Walters Wicker wear cushions of a Claremont ikat.
In the bath, which features an inlay mirror from Living Morocco, the walls are sheathed in Red-Stripe Linen Fabric from Wells Abbott.
In one son’s room, sheathed in blue denim wall covering, a Joe Colombo lamp arches over the leather 1975 bed by Osvaldo Borsani.
A rattan pendant by Atelier Vime hangs above an Eero Saarinen table base and chairs.
In the dining area, a custom ash table by Beckstedt is surrounded by Josef Hoffman bentwood dining chairs and crowned with a Gino Sarfatti chandelier from Matter.
Denim, once again, plays a starring role in a boy’s room, where it wraps a custom bed. The rattan bull wall sculpture, is from Serge Castella Interiors, and the lamp is by Isamu Noguchi.
A Josef Frank floral linen delivers a jolt of color and pattern to this double-height farmhouse kitchen in East Hampton, designed by Neal Beckstedt.
In the upstairs lounge, a 1958 Børge Mogensen sofa in de La Cuona linen sits with a custom ottoman upholstered in blankets from Jayson Home. The paintings are by Christopher Stott, and both chairs are by Hans Wegner.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-classic-meets-contemporary-east-hampton-compound
Step Inside this Classic-Meets-Contemporary East Hampton Compound
Interior designer Neal Beckstedt brings a sense of laid-back luxury to this family retreat
By Hannah Martin
Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson
In an East Hampton property with interiors by Neal Beckstedt, the farmhouse’s double-height dining room walls are covered in a floral Josef Frank linen. Vintage rattan chairs and seats by Charlotte Perriand gather round the 17th-century Spanish dining table.
In one family’s Long Island compound, two hallmarks of Hamptons architecture stand side by side—a 19th-century Shingle Style saltbox festooned with hydrangeas (they call it the farmhouse) and its super-modern foil, heavy on the glass, by New York City firm Architecture Outfit.
“East Hampton is our escape; it’s where we go to breathe and relax,” explains the client, who lives here with her husband and two sons. They acquired the tumbledown farmhouse in 2018 and knew they wanted a more contemporary counterpoint. “We needed to find an interior designer who could tie together these two very different structures.”
New York City–based firm Architecture Outfit restored the 19th-century shingle-clad saltbox and created the contemporary glass house and cabana from the ground up.
Luckily, the clients have a family member in the design world—tastemaking shop owner Kate Rheinstein Brodsky (AD featured her own Hamptons place in May 2020)—and she knew the perfect guy for the job. Brodsky had recently clicked with New York City–based decorator Neal Beckstedt at a dinner party, so she made the intro and the rest is history.
The client responded to Beckstedt’s knack for what she calls “laid-back luxury,” a look he honed for a decade working for architect Russell Groves before launching his own business in 2010. An early project for fashion designer Derek Lam (AD, September 2015) set the groundwork for his practice, and, as Beckstedt reports, “it’s been bananas ever since,” one client leading to the next, with a little help from Instagram and a cult-favorite Kips Bay Show House sitting room.
The sunken lounge is outfitted with a custom sofa system covered in Japanese denim. The rug is Moroccan.
A vintage twig table and Harvey Probber Headboard in the gingham-wrapped guest room. The paintings are by the homeowner’s grandmother.
For this project, Beckstedt recalls, “the client wanted something that was understated and livable—not stuffy. A new approach to the Hamptons.” And most importantly, “they were not afraid of color.”
As the main house was being built, the decorating started in the farmhouse, a landmarked timber-framed structure that Architecture Outfit restored to its original footprint. Here, Beckstedt leaned into the traditional architecture, indulging some of his more fanciful ideas. A heavy linen floral by Josef Frank was applied to the walls in the double-height dining room. The kitchen got a tumbling block tile backsplash. A fleet of whimsical Swedish antiques filled the bedrooms, and crisp ginghams and stripes—a Hamptons classic—were applied to the walls. The clients were down for all of it. In fact, the rather playful interiors were a perfect backdrop for a handful of charming still-life paintings by the husband’s grandmother.
In the main living room, a 1950s daybed by Ejner Larsen and Aksel Bender Madsen, a sofa by Vladimir Kagan, and a pair of chairs by Pierre Paulin surround a 1970s cocktail table by Angelo Mangiarotti.
“There’s a bit of a point-counterpoint relationship going on,” explains Thaddeus Briner, principal of Architecture Outfit, of the pair of houses situated between two parcels of conservation land. “Both have shingles and gables, for instance, and the sizes of both buildings are fairly humble. But there it sort of stops.” And those differences extend to the interiors. In the sun-washed main house, with a pavilion-like structure and giant sliding 12-foot-tall glass walls, the decoration is more subdued. Spaces were oriented toward the landscapes—exquisitely planted by LaGuardia Design Group—and Beckstedt took care to give those views ample room to breathe. Here, he used large planes of primary colors (a nod to international style architects like Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld), taking color cues from a 1952 sculpture by Fernand Léger and ceramic artists from Ateliers Brice.
“The client loves to joke, though it’s not really a joke, that he built a house for that sculpture,” recalls Beckstedt, who injected colors from the artwork throughout the house—an olive green wall, goldenrod Pierre Paulin chairs, cobalt-blue kitchen cabinets. He balanced out those bold hues with more rustic materials, such as the 1960s vintage pine desk by Axel Einar Hjorth in the study, a rattan pendant light by Atelier Vime in the kitchen, and a pair of Ingo Maurer’s cult-favorite Uchiwa fan sconces in the bedroom. A suite of vintage textiles adds even more warmth—rugs from Marrakech and Turkey, loads of African prints and patterns sourced on Etsy—giving the place a global, eclectic feel the client wanted.
A custom bed is flanked by Ingo Maurer’s Uchiwa sconces and bamboo chests by Tom Robinson Modern.
Pottery barn stools and plates by Dalila Chessa add flavor to the blue kitchen.
“My husband and I have roots in many different parts of the Middle East, mainly Lebanon,” explains the client, who brought a handful of family heirlooms, including mother-of-pearl chests and mirrors from Syria and Lebanon, to the project. “We wanted to be able to infuse this mixed identity throughout the home, in order to keep it warm and not too cold and modern.”
Blooming hydrangeas festoon the farmhouse lawn, outfitted with custom Adirondack chairs, designed by Beckstedt, and a shimmering blue pool to match.
The family in the cabana.
A 1960s desk by Axel Einar Hjorth and lamp by Sidse Werner in the office.
A 1940s armchair, Flos sconces, and Turkish rug in the bath.
In the farmhouse, an antique Swedish cabinet sits with a 1960s French armchair. The floor lamp by Orrefors is topped with a basket.
The door of the cedar-shingled farmhouse is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Blue Jean. Laguardia Design Group handled the landscaping.
A 19th-century four-poster bed with vintage lamp and rattan side table in a guest room.
A Fernand Léger and Ateliers brice ceramic wall hanging inspired the color palette for the main house.
A 1970s indigo Moroccan rug electrifies the entryway, filled with a 1980s lamp by Gae Aulenti, a Thonet cane chair, and a pair of rattan stools snagged at the Paris flea market. The artwork is by Lara Baladi.
A blue-check linen from Wells Textiles covers the walls in the twin guest room, where the vintage headboards are by Danny Ho Fong and the bamboo stools from Neo Studio.
In the farmhouse, where the wood floors were reclaimed from a barn in Tennessee, the kitchen features tiles from Mosaic House, a retro SMEG refrigerator, and 1950s French Pendants.
Beneath the vintage coral chandelier, furnishings from Walters Wicker wear cushions of a Claremont ikat.
In the bath, which features an inlay mirror from Living Morocco, the walls are sheathed in Red-Stripe Linen Fabric from Wells Abbott.
In one son’s room, sheathed in blue denim wall covering, a Joe Colombo lamp arches over the leather 1975 bed by Osvaldo Borsani.
A rattan pendant by Atelier Vime hangs above an Eero Saarinen table base and chairs.
In the dining area, a custom ash table by Beckstedt is surrounded by Josef Hoffman bentwood dining chairs and crowned with a Gino Sarfatti chandelier from Matter.
Denim, once again, plays a starring role in a boy’s room, where it wraps a custom bed. The rattan bull wall sculpture, is from Serge Castella Interiors, and the lamp is by Isamu Noguchi.
A Josef Frank floral linen delivers a jolt of color and pattern to this double-height farmhouse kitchen in East Hampton, designed by Neal Beckstedt.In the upstairs lounge, a 1958 Børge Mogensen sofa in de La Cuona linen sits with a custom ottoman upholstered in blankets from Jayson Home. The paintings are by Christopher Stott, and both chairs are by Hans Wegner.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-classic-meets-contemporary-east-hampton-compound
