Cottage East Hampton, New York
Client: Private Size: 5,000 gsf Completion: 1996
This National AIA Award winning cottage blending modernist and traditional ideas was recently updated from summer to year-round use. Reversing the conventional front/back relationship to the street, informal spaces face the entry street while the high formal façade with its wrap-around porch faces the great lawn at the ‘back.’ Fenced car courts, on two corners of the lot, replace the usual driveway and keep all vehicles out of view from the lawn. A central stair hall passes through the house connecting the front and back lawns; while four bedrooms are tucked under the high Dutch gambrel roof on the second floor.