![]() ![]() The same hue (and paint color) continues into this space. “We all liked this idea of mystery,” reflects Ferrer, noting that while the architecture “twists convention, it all feels right.” Details were reduced to a minimum, so that at times the structure reads as almost abstract, most notably on the front facade where an off-center entrance and oversized window scramble any immediate sense of what’s within. Cloaked in Alaskan yellow cedar, their design remains classical in thinking yet playfully proportioned, its massing and fenestration undergoing dramatic shifts. ![]() “He is so good at making a small house feel bigger than it is.”įor cues, the team looked to early examples of the Shingle style-that pivotal moment in the early 1880s when New England houses straddled traditional and modern worlds. Kligerman, he knew, would immediately understand his and the clients’ vision of a shipshape contemporary cottage. (Formerly of Ike Kligerman Barkley, he is now the founding partner of Kligerman Architecture and Design.) “Tom’s synthesis of old and new is very much aligned with my own,” says Ferrer. This Hamptons project allowed him the chance to work in a fresh coastal idiom, but it also enabled him to work with a longtime design hero, architect Tom Kligerman. Since founding his eponymous firm in 2012, Ferrer has built a reputation for spare but sophisticated interiors, more often than not city apartments where chiseled vintage treasures of wide-ranging provenance mingle merrily with bespoke pieces. “I saw an opportunity to do something super special.” “It was quiet and beachy, fabulous but not fancy,” Ferrer recalls of the waterfront enclave. Located in a lesser-known 1960s subdivision of Southampton, the one-acre site directly overlooked the bay-a dream come true for the nautically-inclined couple, who wanted to build a house from ground up. Charlie Ferrer, a seasoned Manhattan-based creative, was eager for a challenge when two longtime clients approached him about their Long Island property. For any interior designer, there are projects that play to your strengths, and there are projects that flex new creative muscles. ![]()
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