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PLUS Christie Brinkley, Elie Tahari, B. Smith, Mick Jagger hamptons-magazine.com NICHE MEDIA HOLDINGS, LLC The modern home at 26 Fieldview Lane in East Hampton was built with midcentury California HauteNEWS, STARS, AND TRENDSProperty IN REAL ESTATE architectural inspiration.

extreme makeover A ONCE DOWDY RANCH IS AT THE HEAD OF A MODERNIST MOVEMENT IN EAST HAMPTON. BY MIKE OLSON

here most people saw a dated ranch house, designer and real architect Maziar Behrooz. “It was a well-made house, but it had limitations estate developer Marnie McBryde saw an opportunity. Sure, spatially,” Behrooz remembers. “We wanted to add spaces to it that would Wthis one-story home didn’t exactly radiate East End glamour, be in contrast to the existing structure, not an extension of it. I wanted it to but the location on her favorite tree-lined street in East Hampton—not to visibly be an addition like the old-fashioned rambling houses in the area mention the room to expand the structure thanks to the spacious one-acre that were added on to over many decades.” lot—convinced McBryde that this property had potential. Then came the Tasked with creating a light-filled modern home, Behrooz incorporated hard part: turning the nondescript 26 Fieldview Lane into the shining more glass than the area had ever seen. “There are walls and walls of glass,” example of her unique architectural vision. says Bonny Aarons, senior vice president of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real FOSTER McBryde, the president and creative director of Hamptons Modern, is Estate. “Marnie had to apply to the town to get the largest amount of glass CHRIS inspired by the clean lines and simple design of midcentury California allowed because it was so different than most of the architecture in the area.” BY architecture, and her goal is to bring those aesthetics to Long Island. That Behrooz also had a seemingly contradictory instruction: create enough wall movement started at home (literally) when she began remodeling 26 space for McBryde to display her impressive collection of Japanese art. Fieldview Lane 10 years ago. For help, she turned to East Hampton based continued on page 236 PHOTOGRAPHY –

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Combined with McBryde’s use of Feng Shui, That extra-wide staircase, which Behrooz likens the result is a home that is nothing like the sterile to bleachers where guests can sit and chat, is just modern stereotype. “It has a warmth to it,” says one of the reasons—along with the 40-foot heated Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Janette Goodstein. gunite pool and an indoor/outdoor sound system— “Some modern homes feel like a castle, but this that 26 Fieldview Lane is the ultimate entertaining doesn’t have that coldness.” Another reason is house, having served as the setting of countless Behrooz’s decision to frame the home’s many prestigious social events over the past decade. large windows in mahogany rather than stainless Of course, it’s not too hard to convince guests to steel or aluminum. “They’re nice, thick pieces stop by when you’re in such a prime spot in East that are set into very solid stucco walls,” he says, Hampton. “It’s just about the most perfect loca- “not some paper-thin modernistic material.” tion,” says Aarons. “It’s very private and quiet, but Like the abundance of windows with views of it’s also about a mile to the center of the village.” the property, this use of mahogany is a unifying Toss in proximity to the beach and a reasonable Architect Maziar Behrooz was tasked theme throughout the home. It’s there as you $2.65-million price tag, and it seems that this four- with building a light- approach the home’s wooden front door, which bedroom, 3,300-square-foot home isn’t long for filled modern home. opens into a double-height living room (with fire- this competitive market. place) and glass rear wall that overlooks the As McBryde looks to expand Hamptons Modern backyard. And it’s also present in another of 26 (she plans to build 50 homes), the buyer at 26 “It feels like the whole living Fieldview Lane’s most striking fea- Fieldview Lane gets to be at the room just gently ﬂows tures—a giant mahogany deck. forefront of a movement. “This down to the pool.” When McBryde bought the INSIGHT house will attract a very sophisti- home, there was only a tiny back cated buyer who appreciates the MAZIAR BEHROOZ Model Home: One deck and staircase. Behrooz reme- of the first projects design sensibility,” says Aarons. continued from page 235 died that by constructing a deck in Marnie McBryde’s “It’s really like a piece of artwork.” His solution helps explain what makes 26 along the entire length of the home. Hamptons Modern And while Behrooz is too humble Fieldview Lane so unique. “I moved the win - “What I tried to do was let the movement will be to describe his work in those an adaptation of dows to the corner of the room,” Behrooz house settle into the landscape by the iconic Palm terms, this home does hold a spe- explains. “With one exception, every window extending the deck and creating Springs home that cial place among his numerous in the addition wraps around the corner so this big, podiumlike staircase,” he Donald Wexler Hamptons projects. “I can’t even that the midsection of the wall is solid. It’s a explains. “It feels like the whole liv- designed for Dinah tell you how many I’ve done,” he simple thing that became the thematic gesture ing room just continues out and Shore. Wexler gave laughs, although there is one McBryde exclusive of the house.” gently flows down to the pool.” rights to use the thing this modern architect is design in the happy to brag about it: “I’ve FOSTER Hamptons. hardly used any shingles along Feng Shui: The the way.” Bonny Aarons and Janette CHRIS BY home’s Zen Goodstein, Prudential Douglas Elliman, aesthetic extends 20 Main St., East Hampton, 516-383- right out to the 0333, 516-380-7341; elliman.com street, where the H PHOTOGRAPHY gates in the driveway also have The open living room a Japanese look. feels as if it connects to the pool area.

Mahogany frames the doors and windows—a unifying design element in this modern home.

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