Hampton Style: Houses, Gardens, Artists (Hardcover)

by John Esten (Author), Rose Bennett Gilbert (Author), Susan Wood (Photographer)

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
Emphasizing the rich design heritage of the Hamptons, this handsome volume documents images and information similar to the material to be exhibited at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York. Celebrity-watchers (impressed with the cachet attached to the mere mention of the posh Long Island villages) may glimpse in these pages the sublime gardens, elegant interiors, and fabulous architecture of the jet-setters, trendy designers, and artists who populate the elite enclave. Luscious color photographs capture seaside vistas and a treasury of architectural styles--including traditional shingle-style cottages, gingerbread-trimmed Victorians, Richard Meier's hard-edged modernism, and the postmodern villas of Robert A. M. Stem. Reproductions of paintings by artists associated with the area add a sense of history to the text; a Fairfield Porter still life and a landscape by William Merritt Chase are two among the many represented. Alice Joyce

Product Description
Studies the variety and contrast in architecture of the famed Long Island summer resort, from the Pousey House of 1783 to designs of the 1990s by Robert A. M. Stern and Marcel Breuer. By the author of Manhattan Style.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company; 1st edition (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316249890
• ISBN-13: 978-0316249898
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #660,417 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Window into a Wealthy New York Vacation Community, June 18, 2009

By	BYF "Backyard Flix" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

From Front Jacket:

"If New York City has an alter ego, it's the Hamptons -- the shimmering collection of beachside villages that lies a morning's drive away, on the South Fork of Long Island.

Far from the skyscrapers and traffic of Manhattan, the Hamptons offer a beguiling blend of high-style sophisticaiton and low-key charm -- and on any summer's weekend they attract more of the world's wealthiest, wittiest, and most creative people than any other spot on earth.

Behind the cool white fences, in houses that trace the history of American architecture, reside some of our most notable cultural figures.

'Hampton Style' takes the reader into the intimate world of the Hamptons, with vivid photographs of its houses, both inside and out.

Here is the entire spectrum of American architecture, from the first settlers' shingle houses of the mid-17th century to today's most fanciful post-modern villas.

Included are the homes and work of some of America's greatest painters: William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Jackson Pollock, and Larry Rivers. And here too are the Hamptons' magnificent gardens, as well as stunning glimpses of sunny sand beaches, broad village greens, town ponds, ocean vistas over rich potato fields, and kaleidoscopic skies."

More than 240 Full-color and 31 black-and-white photographs."



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CONTENTS:

* Preface

* Hampton Style
* Beginnings
* Temples
* Gingerbread
* Aesthetic
* Cottages
* Modern
* Post-Modern


* Note & Bibliography