Jul 26 Jul 26 Casual and homey the result of cold-blooded planning; dynamic shapes, unanticipated materials; the rapturous feeling of a great estate; dynamic, innovative and unfashionable Michael Braverman
Jul 12 Jul 12 The luxury of being transcendentally alone; the charm of an 1840s vernacular style; a splendid estate restored; postmodernist riffs for better or worse Michael Braverman
Jul 6 Jul 6 Tasteful without a trace of overdone fabulousness, tear it down; if money can’t buy happiness it can buy panoramic views; even the palms seem to be swaying in Remsenburg; estate living Michael Braverman
Jun 28 Jun 28 Bit of wetland and a lot of sky; the magic of an old estate area; only a Chinese Chippendale railing between you and nature; not what you see, it’s what you do Michael Braverman
Jun 22 Jun 22 Intimations of a superstar yacht; one street where you don’t trifle with tradition; afternoon dalliance just across the lawn; overlooking a protected bit of pastoral countryside Michael Braverman
Jun 19 Jun 19 House not swell enough for the property; only splashy thing are the ducks landing; the tone of an expensive suburb, not the Hamptons; refined, remarkable, uncommon Michael Braverman
Jun 12 Jun 12 Delicacy and fluidity in a farmhouse, nice to see; ravishing: dramatic night lighting, jazzy music, expensive baubles; colonnaded first floor porches; avoiding a hodgepodge of clichés Michael Braverman
Jun 8 Jun 8 Not exactly white bread design but sober and prudent; more like the beach cabana than the main house; mischief and prank-Palladian windows; authentic and charming Carpenter Gothic Michael Braverman
Jun 1 Jun 1 A petit something in search of a chateau; subdued and understated but also cogent and charismatic; bringing a centuries old beauty up to date; it’s just a house, not a status symbol Michael Braverman
May 25 May 25 Just add a cocktail waitress; beach house as survivor and talisman; foundation in the Hamptons, house rooted in Palm Beach; location is a beach lover’s paradise Michael Braverman
May 7 May 7 Enchanting to begin with, now absolutely captivating; instant gratification hardwired into this home; a totally American look, sublime and statuesque; sigh, an English country house Michael Braverman
May 2 May 2 The Red Horse Market feud involving two big names (and egos) finally resolved Michael Braverman
Aug 31 Aug 31 Certifiably upper crust mansion; an area that’s moved up in the real estate pecking order; against the tide of shingled fabulousness; solid Southampton with extra chromosomes Michael Braverman
Aug 23 Aug 23 Major estate with Hollywood roots; tasteful without tricks, polished without props; an abstraction of a Greek temple; the 1938 hurricane didn’t bring it down but the next owner might Michael Braverman
Aug 16 Aug 16 As fabulous as it gets, truly; the beachiest place in the Hamptons: watch out for hurricanes; carriage house crying for restoration; perched on a rocky revetment on Peconic Bay Michael Braverman
Aug 9 Aug 9 An immaculately restored whaler’s house in Sag Harbor; brokers, without irony, call it a farmhouse, oh well; conventional, that’s qualified praise; when a house becomes a collector’s item Michael Braverman
Aug 2 Aug 2 A house that might have gone to prep school; sliced and diced doughnut of a house; unmistakably establishment and parading its refinement; a ranch house on a real ranch Michael Braverman
Jul 26 Jul 26 A spectacular property out east in Montauk; lush and sensual materials used with imagination; a rare, irreplaceable treasure of a house; the newly fashionable rotunda family room Michael Braverman
Jul 20 Jul 20 Lustrous clean-lined modern, a solid gold location; 20 acres with extraordinary views and rich history; masterfully detailed International Style beach house; generic but assembled well Michael Braverman
