Summertime: "Atlantic Crossing"

While this series is called "Summertime," it's really more about leisure-time residences.  Weekend houses, vacation houses, country houses, lake houses, beach houses,  mountain houses...whatever you want to call them.  They have a special vibe all their own.  More relaxed, less formal, perhaps more experimental.  It's a chance for the designer/client collaboration to try a new style and move to a different level.  It can be fun and funky or adhere to a vernacular that suits its surroundings, like this Shingle-style house designed by architect Francis Fleetwood in East Hampton, New York, with interior design by Glenn Gissler.

This 9,000 square foot house was featured in House & Garden in 1997 and photographed by Fernando Bengoechea.  It was adapted from late 19th/early 20th century American Shingle Style houses, so popular in coastal settings.  In this modern version, Fleetwood enlarged and added windows to take advantage of the legendary and ethereal light of Eastern Long Island.

In the spacious entrance hall, a 1920s iron chandelier makes a powerful statement.

In a corner of the foyer, Fleetwood added a built-in seating nook, so typical of early Arts and Crafts architecture.

 

The living room (shown in the two photos above) is inspired by the style of the late 19th/early 20th century, minus the clutter of that period.  The comfort and ease of the room is 100% modern.

The high backed sofa in another corner of the living room also reflects the same rigorous attention to detail and spirit of the period.

In the dining room, newly reproduced lights and dining table, designed by Gissler, blend seamlessly with antique Arts and Crafts dining chairs.

The sideboard in the dining room is Scottish Arts and Crafts, a nod to the master, Charles Rennie MackIntosh.

A collection of antique mercury glass, made in the late 19th century and called "poor man's silver," sits on a console in the hall.

In the eating area of the kitchen, an antique oil lamp was electrified to illuminate an English Arts and Crafts trestle table and chairs.

The library features Dutch Colonial Indonesian chairs from the 1920s alongside a 1910 Austrian walnut table.

The impressive master bedroom's bed was designed by Gissler.

The unique pedestal sink in the beaded board powder room is from Urban Archeology.

Next week's post will continue our look at the diversity of summer getaways.  Thanks for reading, everyone!