it's hard to find le mot juste to describe this country home belonging to an éminence grise and tastemaker in the worlds of art and design. The terms eclectic, polyglot, and eccentric definitely apply, but they all feel too anemic in capturing the property’s mad medley of color and decor, its fairy-tale landscape and myriad coups de théâtre, and the outlandish imagination of the homeowner and his merry band of designer/enablers. Even the owner himself seems a bit astonished surveying the outré finery of his waterfront wonderland. “This house was an invitation to fulfill a fantasy I didn’t know I had,” he says blithely.
First, a little background. The residence, built in the early 1900s, is improbably situated on the North Fork of Long Island, an area traditionally regarded as the…
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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021