
This Award-Winning Beach House Surprises in More Ways Than One
2023 Best of Year Winner for Large Beach House
At the hands of Interior Design Hall of Fame members Steven Harris and Lucien Rees Roberts, this project is way more than the sum of its parts. The 13,800-square-foot, glass-and-brick residence, perched on a lushly landscaped property in Bridgehampton, New York, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, is all clean lines and rectilinear forms in the tradition of mid-century modernism the clients admire. But the addition of a knife-edge pool and its sculpted-plaster pavilion—capped by a reflecting-pool roof in the shape of a boomerang, another mid-century reference—nails the composition. Inside the main house, sculptural forms meet sweeping green and blue vistas, and high art blends with everyday life. Curving furniture and a spiral staircase soften the hard edges of its angular architecture and harmonize with that of the organic pavilion. Flooring of textured Grigio Olivo stone unites the courtyard, interior, and pavilion deck, creating the impression of a continuous beachlike expanse underfoot.





PROJECT TEAM
steven harris architects: steven harris; abir ahmad; andrea leung.

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