Since the late 19th century, Manhattanites have been fleeing the sticky heat of the city each summer for the breezy coast of Long Island. In fact, a 1983 article in The New York Times deemed the cluster of villages around old Southampton “as close an approach to Eden as can be found in a long journey,” noting also that “well-bred men and women find a congenial atmosphere, refined attractions in plenty.” And if you’ve ever caught an episode of Seinfeld, Sex and the City, or The Real Housewives of New York, you might note that not a lot has changed. So for those of you dreaming about your entrée into Hamptons real estate—or perhaps just researching a summer timeshare—we’ve rounded up the best-looking homes from the pages of AD, from a multicolor modern abode in Hampton Bays to a Shingle Style beauty in East Hampton.
Nearly 20 years after it was built, Shelton, Mindel & Assoc. gave this Colonial Revival Hamptons home by Robert A.M. Stern a vibrant refresh, leaving most of the structure and its classical detailing in place.
After living for more than a decade in a Shingle Style home in East Hampton, architect Frank Greenwald crafted a modern two-story abode for himself and his wife in Sag Harbor, featuring big bay windows and a gently sloping hipped roof.
On architect Peter Marino’s 12-acre, lavishly planted Hamptons plot, ‘Pink Beauty’ hydrangeas engulf the rear of the 1990s house , which looks as if it had been built in stages over centuries—a shingled Dutch Colonial section at right, a central block recalling the late-19th-century country houses of McKim, Mead & White, and an Arts and Crafts wing that could have been added around 1905.
A Manhattan couple enlisted architects Taryn Christoff and Martin Finio to reconfigure and refine their shingle-clad summer house in Sagaponack.
The Hampton Bays retreat of decorator Muriel Brandolini and her family was conceived by architect Raffaella Bortoluzz; it’s constructed of individually articulated rectilinear volumes, each clad in a different color of laminated wood siding.
Artist Cindy Sherman resides in a once-dilapidated 19th-century house in East Hampton that she renovated with architect and friend, Annabelle Selldorf. The retreat is located in the Springs, a quiet, curiously un-Hamptons-like hamlet that was once home to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning.
Porches and balconies lend a summery look to a Shingle Style Hamptons house devised by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and decorated by design firm S. R. Gambrel.
Christoff:Finio Architecture crafted an arresting beachfront residence on the East End of Long Island, with living spaces that appear to hover above the dunes.
A Bridgehampton house devised by the architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners, with interior designer Thomas O’Brien of Aero Studios, nestles into serene gardens by Gunn Landscape Architecture.
When a Bermuda-based family decided they needed a Stateside outpost, design firm Sawyer | Berson created a Colonial Revival home in Southampton clad in white shingles, accented with black shutters, and featuring a railing on the front roof inspired by Chinese Chippendale fretwork.
Interior designer Juan Montoya refreshed this rambling 11,500-square-foot Shingle Style home for a family on Long Island’s East End .
A young family resides in this restored circa-1840s farmhouse in Bridgehampton ; deLashmet & Assoc. designed the grounds.
Designers Delphine and Reed Krakoff have breathed new life into their historic 11-acre estate in East Hampton, which was once the childhood summer home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
At a Long Island beachfront hideaway devised by architect Thomas Kligerman, peak-capped windows and fieldstone chimneys lend distinctive character to the house’s asymmetrical profile.
