GIDDY UP!

A 1930s Locust Valley stable has become a lively home for decorator Asia Baker Stokes and her young family

TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS

Asia Baker Stokes’s forebears had many mansions—or, at least, they were responsible for multiple suave residences that are revered by architecture scholars. The most famous is an elegant Neo-Federal on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which George F. Baker Jr., her banker great-grandfather, famously expanded with Delano and Aldrich, the inventive high-society firm that was beloved by plutocrats of a most refined stripe in the early 20th century—though Palm Beach’s legendary Amado (AD, November 2014), an Addison Mizner palazzo created for another great-grandfather, is no slouch. That being said, Baker Stokes’s own home is arguably the most charming ever to come into the family’s orbit: a 1930s former stable on Long Island’s tony North Shore. Unlike her ancestors, she cheerfully admits that she had little to do with it other than…

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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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