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South Fork’s Sweetheart

Savannah Buffett, daughter of legendary musician Jimmy Buffett, is an up-andcoming “it girl” on the Hamptons scene.

by chris lawrence photographs by eric striffler

All in the Family

These prominent families have helped shaped the Hamptons’ identity for decades. Meet the fresh faces of the next generation taking Long Island by storm.

photographs by eric striffler and jessica nash

Treasure Island

Shrouded in secrecy and ancestral ties, the centuries old Gardiners Island is the most coveted property of the East End.

by christopher lawrence

Idyllic Interiors

A glimpse inside design duo Randy Kemper and Tony Ingrao’s East Hampton home: the awe-inspiring Woodhouse Park.

by cindi cook photographs by eric striffler

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Beach Reads

Reviews of the season’s must-read titles, just in time for summer vacation.

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Meet landscape and garden designer Roxine Brown, of Harmonia, Inc.

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this page (clockwise from top) Savannah Buffett wears a Veronica Beard

Bonfire Bandanna Print silk longsleeve T-shirt, a White Cotton Meadow Skirt by Johnny Was and her own jewelry. Photographed by Eric Striffler, styled by Chiara de Rege, style assistance by Megan Schuster Brodsky and hair and makeup by David Tibolla. The Channing sisters photographed at Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton, NY, by Eric Striffler. Hair and makeup by David Tibolla with assistance by Allison Brooke.

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Buffett wears a Missoni printed cotton dress with belt, angular sterling silver and brass stacking bracelets by Ursa Major from Love, Adorned, a Litter headpiece and her own House of Waris cocktail ring. Photographed at her family home in North Haven, NY, by Eric Striffler. Styled by Chiara de Rege, style assistance by Megan Schuster Brodsky and hair and makeup by David Tibolla.

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Hamptons fixtures offer up their likes and dislikes of life out east. by debbie bancroft Goodies to dazzle your little one. by casey brooks In the height of a “headlong and giddy” summer out east, Haden-Guest reflects on simpler Hamptons days.

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Natasha Esch, owner of Monc XIII, takes us away to Paris; Unlimited Earthcare’s Frederico Azevedo jets to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jenny Ljungberg, visionary behind c/o The Maidstone, escapes to Tibet.

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WHEN I WAS IN school studying for exams, all I could think of was summer. There was no better feeling than finishing your finals, walking out into the sunshine and knowing that you had three glorious months ahead of you of good weather, watermelon, reading and freedom. August was the best month of all, because with September on the horizon, all of the time you spent with friends or lazing around in the grass with a book seemed even more precious and elusive. It still does. For this year’s last AVENUE on the Beach, we’ve dedicated the issue to families who, despite the traffic, remain devoted to the communities they’ve grown up in and will always return to. Savannah Buffet, our cover girl explained, during a chat at her shoot, why she keeps coming back to Long Island. She said she adores the outdoors and all of the activities she can participate in, from kite surfing to tennis. Nature and a love of the outdoors plays a big part in this issue overall. In our next-generation portfolio, all of those pictured spend their downtime outside: Alex Chantecaille lives to surf; Joey Wölffer rides her horses at a competition level; and the Channing daughters have dedicated part of their father’s vineyard to a new yoga center. These are people who have discovered the true treasure the Hamptons has to offer: a lush, natural environment, increasingly rare on the East Coast. Of course there is no piece of natural environment more special than that of Gardiners Island. This piece of property, unspoiled and untouched, has remained that way for hundreds of years. The Goelets, the family that own the island, have zealously guarded the retreat they’ve been lucky enough to inherit. We have a great story about them and the island, as well as never–before-seen photographs. In an age when the trend is to build on every square inch of the Hamptons the Goelets have shown admirable restraint. Of course, we all wish we could visit, but the reality is that keeping it private might be the only way to save such a wonderful place. Happy reading!

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Behind the Scenes << Photographer Eric Striffler has been photographing atmospheric fashion, lifestyle and interiors in the Hamptons and beyond for more than 15 years. Eric won first place in Magazine Editorial Photography by the Long Island Press Club in 2008 as well as a nomination in 2009 for his black-and-white sand series. Several of his images were recognized in the prestigious international Black & White Spider Awards. This Water Mill, NY native recently photographed actress Ally Sheedy for Spain’s anti-bullfighting campaign.

<< Since establishing her own firm in 2010, Chiara de Rege has gained recognition for creating a unique range of interiors. She began her career as a fashion assistant at American Vogue and transitioned to interior design when offered a position at Molly Isaksen Interiors. Recently, she returned to Vogue as an interiors stylist. Her projects share a timeless sensibility that are brought to life with a mix of modern and traditional aesthetics.

Megan Schuster Brodsky, currently a freelance stylist, stepped into the fashion world doing public relations at Gucci America for four years. As the head of public relations and business development for FINN, she landed the jewelry brand a finalist position in the 2011 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund awards for new designers. Born and raised on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she currently resides in west Chelsea.

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Dan Caten, Ireland Baldwin, Dean Caten and Lindsey Wixson

A WELL-HEELED AFFAIR amfAR’s 4th Annual Inspiration Gala heats up the Plaza Hotel

owns swept up the steps of the Plaza Hotel as New York’s fashion set made their way to amfAR’s annual black-tie soireé, which raised nearly $1 million. The star-studded evening featured live and silent auctions, and honored Jennifer Lopez, Alan Cumming and Valentino Garavani for their humanitarian work and commitment to the fight against AIDS. Guests sipped on Ketel One cocktails while Canadian pop sensation Carly Rae Jepsen serenaded the chic crowd, which included Uma Thurman, Liza Minnelli and John Demsey.

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on the avenue Peter Tufo and Meggie Kempner

Jennifer Cuminale and Alexandra Klestadt

Taylor Ivey and Justin Weiss

Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz and Natasha Blodgett

Tyler Gaffney, Milena Duke and Charlotte Woltz

AT THE ZOO The Wildlife Conservation Society Gala and After-Party celebrates Wonders of Southeast Asia

anhattan’s PYTs flocked to the Central Park Zoo for the WCS’ wild and lively after-party. The benevolent soirée highlighted the WCS’ work to protect wildlife and habitats throughout Southeast Asia. Meggie Kempner and David Hess mingled under festive tents, while braver partygoers congregated near the sea lion pool. With Chelsea Leyland in the DJ booth, attendees hit the dancefloor, shimmying well into the wee hours.

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Lady Liliana Cavendish and Diandra Douglas

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AVENUE on the Beach toasts its June cover girl Shoshanna Gruss at Gilbert Albert jewelry

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hoshanna Gruss was all smiles, greeting close friends and Upper East Side fixtures at Gilbert Albert’s boutique for a celebratory lunch. With school out for summer, Bara Tisch, Kate Allen and Charlotte Ronson donned their daytime best, posing for photos and admiring the intricate jewelry on display. Over frisée salad and tea sandwiches, Natalie Leeds Leventhal and Starrett Ringbom caught up over talk of summer-break plans. CLINT SPAULDING/PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM

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WHAT’S IN STORE Southampton lights up for Figue’s pop-up store opening party

outh Fork fashionistas fêted new purveyor of gypset style, Stephanie von Watzdorf, at her store’s opening on Jobs Lane. The former head of design at Tory Burch showed off her designs (tunics, kaftans and jewelry) to guests, including Lizzie Tisch, Lily Maddock and Jamee Gregory. Attendees snacked while admiring Figue’s fresh boho-chic threads.

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Robert Verdi, Stephanie von Watzdorf and Alexander Vreeland

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Surf Lodge celebrates Max Snow’s new photo exhibit with a weekend-long bash

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ast End scenesters flocked to Surf Lodge for a 72-hour celebration honoring the hotel’s artist-in-residence, photographer Max Snow. Over brunch, partygoers, including Vanessa Traina Snow, Waris Ahluwalia and Elizabeth Jagger, took to the back deck for sun and ocean views. On Sunday night, the crowd lit up when a barefoot Jimmy Buffett took the stage with Willie Nelson, surprising guests and helping them finish off the weekend fun. MATTEO PRANDONI/BFANYC.COM

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Fashion Institute of Technology’s Annual Foundation Gala honors George Kaufman, Kay Krill and Stefano Tonchi

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ipriani 42nd Street reverberated with the voices of fashion’s heavy-hitters at FIT’s annual fundraising dinner. Tony Bennett and Jessica Chastain were among the big names who presented awards, while Karen LeFrak, Jamee Gregory and Julie Macklowe showed their support for FIT’s Educational Development Fund. Over lobster salad and lamb, Gilles Mendel and Fern Mallis looked on, soaking in the charismatic words of the honorees.

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Stacey Bendet Eisner Ingrid Vandebosch and Jeff Gordon

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SUMMER SCREENER Dolce & Gabbana and The Cinema Society fête Madonna’s MDNA Tour

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otable New Yorkers and Madonna super fans rushed to the Paris Theater for the premiere of MADONNA: THE MDNA Tour—and to catch a rare glimpse of the star. Madge gave an endearing Q&A while Jenna Lyons and a star-struck Stacey Bendet sat on the edge of their seats. Afterwards, partygoers played follow the leader, continuing on to Harlow for the after-party. JULIO GAMBOA/BFANYC.COM

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SWEET CHARITY East Enders toast the Humane Society and Friends of Finn in Montauk

osts Amanda Hearst, Georgina Bloomberg and Kimberly Ovitz charmed guests over cocktails and entertainment at the Humane Society and Friends of Finn event at Surf Lodge. Proceeds from the benefit, sponsored by Les Compagnons Fine Wines and Saludos, supported efforts to stop puppy mills across the U.S. Among the animal lovers in attendance were Jay McInerney, Timo Weiland, Luigi Tadini and Erica Berman.

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Chef Gustav Trägårdh, Tara Brancato and Heather Richardson

Bruce Renick and Jodie Berro

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Peconic Baykeeper’s 15th Anniversary and Benefit for the Bays with Waterkeeper Alliance

amptons fixtures and conservationists stepped out for dockside cocktails in Sag Harbor, followed by a dinner cruise aboard the Mariner III. Nicole Miller, Ann Colley and Maureen Sherry mingled and thanked Michelon-starred chef Gustav Trägårdh for his three-course meal. Kim Taipale, along with other supporters, toasted both organizations’ efforts to protect swimmable, drinkable and fishable waters on the East End. JONATHON ZIEGLER/PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM

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EAST ENDERS AVENUE on the Beach and Jean Shafiroff host cocktails for the Southampton Hospital

n anticipation of the Southampton Hospital’s 55th Annual Summer Party, chairwoman Jean Shafiroff and familiar Hamptons faces sipped champagne and mingled with jewelry designer Judith Murat at Rose Jewelers. Attendees, including Victor de Souza, Liz Derringer and Cornelia Sharpe Bregman, shopped the elegant designs, whose sales benefited the hospital. JULIO GAMBOA/BFANYC.COM

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veryone is trickling back home. After the season in London, sailing the Adriatic and whatever other exotic path we’ve traveled, we’re mostly back, and on the beach. I readied myself at the gracious and gorgeous Round Hill Club in Jamaica’s Montego Bay and on the serene and beautiful island of Ambergris Cay, where a covey of girlfriends luxuriated with strangely affectionate iguanas, birds and, yes, fish. I think there’s a movie in there. So I am tanned and ready for the “avenue on the beach”—the lanes, paths and necks. As you’ll see from the quotes below, many East End denizens love the ability to tuck away out there, emerging only when desired. That’s the trick, and one that many don’t understand, thus the inaccurate reputation of the overheated Hamptons.

High-profile Hamptonites dish on their likes, dislikes

What do you like about the Hamptons? What don’t you like about the Hamptons? Ross Bleckner I love the peace and quiet, when it is. I don’t love Route 27 27.

Dr. Samantha Boardman It’s like pressing a reset button every time I’m here. I eat well, I sleep well, and I exercise. Best of all, I spend time with the people I love. I don’t love Labor Day weekend because it signals summer is over. The silver lining is that the fall is so beautiful out here.

Lorraine Bracco I love that my girls spend every weekend in the Hamptons, with or without me. There’s not much I don’t love. And after living and working in L.A., I will never complain about the traffic again.

the new Pottery Barn in Southampton—so happy Southampton it’s open and contributing to the village scene, Anand Yoga and Herricks Hardware—the Hardware best customer service—who service needs Nordstrom? I don’t love big houses with air conditioning and heated pools and no one is ever home! There are so many kids stuck in the city—they should be learning to swim in those pools and learning to play tennis on those courts! And Cablevision is the worst cable operator in the country. Try getting them on the phone, and yes, I have rebooted.

Kathleen Marshall I love Sag Harbor at Christmastime—it’s like Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life. I don’t like trying to make a left on 27 in the summer.

Rob Marshall Linda Evangelista

Sunsets at Gibson Beach, blue hydrangeas, Levain Bakery chocolate chip cookies. People walking three abreast in the streets.

What I love about the Hamptons is seeing everybody I’ve ever known. What I don’t love is seeing everybody I’ve ever known.

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I love the ability to totally escape and hide out at my house or I can go

out and be at the most beautiful party, in the most beautiful setting, with fun, interesting, creative people. I don’t like leaving.

Heather Mnuchin I love staying home and having dinner with friends. I don’t love not being able to go out to restaurants on weekends, the way we do in L.A.

Gabourey Sidibe I love how far away you feel, even though you aren’t. I don’t love the fact that I always seem to be staying near a graveyard. What is up with that?

Robert Verdi I like the fact that you don’t have to go out and be social—you can hide social from the world. What I hate is that you see the same people as on the New York City streets. If I see you on cement, I don’t need to see you in the sand!

Vera Wang I love the open sky, green lawns and the sun. I don’t love the drive out. ✦

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ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST

Changing of the Guards Anthony Haden-Guest keeps a watchful eye as the Hamptons evolve

t was towards the end of the ’70s and I was in Ahmet Ertegun’s helicopter, Hamptons-bound. Ertegun, the late and impossibly urbane capo of Atlantic Records, was looking out of the window at the unlovely terrain we were overflying, a suburb, pimpled with backyard pools. “Some day all the Hamptons will look like this,” he observed. I had not long before moved to Manhattan from London. The Hamptons had swept me in. To me, the place seemed timeless. “Who knows?” I said, politely. “I know,” Ertegun said, serenely. The Hamptons wasn’t a place, of course, as much as several inter-connected places and they were interestingly variegated. Southampton was the Upper East Side gone to the beach and kept to an appropriate social calendar, full but relaxed. East Hampton was equally swell but somehow thinkier. Springs was more rural, and Sag Harbor houses didn’t come with land, so it was villagey rather than squirearchic. Quite recently in Sag a duck followed by five ducklings waddled sedately across my path. Where else but in the Hamptons? And so on, all the way to Montauk where the sand beaches are replaced by rocks, where Peter Beard has owned a place since 1971 and where Andy Warhol had another. The tempo in the Hamptons was leisurely. There wasn’t much boating or swimming off that endlessly long beach, perhaps because of the ugly undertow. Gossip was a cottage industry. I recall that one bibulous beau of one grand dame was known as BD. It was some time before I learned that this was short for Brain Damage. And there was still talk about the trashing of a mansion during a debutante dance by a bunch of skunk-drunk rich kids a dozen years before. And then there was the society gal who had snapped pictures of the mayhem and sold them to Life and been denounced in a gossip column as “a traitor to her class.” Those steely rules seem nowadays as dead as, well, Life, but that was how things still were in Southampton through the ’70s. I remember getting on a Jitney at 86th Street—the sleek Jitney bus, not the Jitney van of my earliest trips—and seeing that a luxury brand had left a goodie bag on every seat. “Everybody gets one,” the matron in front of me told a woman just seating herself with a musical bellow. “Really?” she answered “Even the staff ?” Already there were changes, though. One of my earliest magazine pieces after my arrival focused on the new literary life in the 46 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

Hamptons, the peg being the return from Europe of the last of the Lost Generation, James Jones and Irwin Shaw. Truman Capote was holding court in Bobby Van’s and huge convivial parties were given by George Plimpton, the tent pole of the Paris Review. Plimpton was the most generous of men and the single time I knew him to balk was when I suggested bringing along another writer fresh to the scene, Clifford Irving, author of the “memoirs” of Howard Hughes, recently exposed as a hoax. Plimpton, the creator of such works of participatory journalism as Paper Lion, about a month spent training with the Detroit Lions, murmured; “I think two frauds at one party is too many.” The end of the decade saw another change begin arriving in Manhattan, where they rather enjoyed the nickname “Eurotrash.” I wrote and narrated a PBS documentary on the theme and this inevitably took me to the Hamptons, specifically to an area with such a build-up of Prussian noblemen that it been nicknamed Hun Lane. That surge has ebbed but it certainly internationalized New York and affected the Hamptons too. A different influx that began moving to the Hamptons a few years later were inheritors rather than pioneers. Artists had been working in the Hamptons ever since Pollock and De Kooning, but that had been a smaller, poorer art world. The new arrivals, artists like David Salle, Eric Fischl and Ross Bleckner, were all being profiled in shiny-sheeted magazines and whatever it was that the Hamptons were evolving into, the art world was a seamless fit.

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This was brought home to me sharply at the 2008 benefit for Robert Wilson’s Watermill Foundation. I arrived to find a swell pre-dinner cocktail in full spate. The Hamptons summer people in their shrimp-pinks and apple-greens were mingling with artists, writers and performers, among them Marina Abramović, Howard Stern and Roger Waters, the lanky lead singer of Pink Floyd. Old-school Hamptonians had tended to be as leery of tabloidy celebrity as the board of a Park Avenue co-op. And yet here there was a full celeb quotient. “Has anybody seen Kim Cattrall?” asked a fretful paparazzo. Some partygoers holding wine glasses or champagne flutes drifted through the surrounding woods, which were full of noises, to say nothing of flaming torches, faux monoliths, dragon puppets, rock groups and performance artists. A vermilion tent contained an oblong of white candles that read “love”. The featured artist was Jonathan Meese, a long-haired, goateed Berliner who was filmed walking through these woods, declaiming that “Art is the anarchy which is going to rule the world.” Such a Fellini-appropriate scene would have been unlikely in Manhattan. Definitely one up for the Hamptons, I think. Have there been other changes? When I first came to Montauk, it had seemed as austerely remote as the Scottish Highlands. Last year, a pasted-up sign depicted a pork pie hat in a red circle crossed by a red diagonal, meaning: “Hipsters, begone!” The Lobster Inn on Route 27, so often the last port of call on Sunday evening for Manhattan-bound houseguests, was sold earlier this year. According to rumor it will be turned into condos. Which segues all too well into the most over-arching change, the coming of the New, New Money. There has been very big money in the Hamptons for decades, of course, but even fairly recent, money would conduct its affairs privately, behind walls. That has not always been the case with the New, New Money. Last year there was buzz about one nascent class war in the area, with millionaires PO’d about billionaires’ buzzing helicopters. And earlier this year, the Times reported that the post-Sandy attempts by the owners of beachside chateaux to ward off the Next Big One by installing metal plates and trucking in boulders were under attack for contributing to the erosion of public beaches. The jury remains out on this. Also this year, Page Six, an assiduous recorder of local goings-on, announced that the brunch at Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, was offering to have a skydiver serve a magnum of Dom Pérignon Rosé Luminous. It would be chilled by the 13,500 foot descent and would set the revelers back $25,000. At East Hampton’s Pink Elephant, a methuselah of Dom Pérignon would be sabred open for $30,000. Bottoms up! So Ahmet Ertegun and I have both been proven wrong. The Hamptons have not morphed into the East Coast version of one of those suburban growths in the San Fernando Valley, as Ertegun predicted. Nor are they as they were, as I had hoped. The Neo-Hamptons are a perfect reflection of our own headlong and giddy times. Ten years from now? Well, I’m not going to risk another prophecy, except to say that the sea will remain, as will the beaches. Weather, of course, permitting. ✦

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ight or so years ago, Anke Beck-Friedrich, the wife of a retired German fashion tycoon (who owned Esprit in Europe), sat in the sixth old house she’d renovated in Southampton, explaining to a reporter why restoration, not new construction, is better for the wealthy migrants who then, as now, flock to the East End. “All the farmland goes,” she said, referring to the way values rise and landowners cash in. “Ugly houses get built, but the infrastructure doesn’t grow in the same way, and the local people cannot aﬀord to live in Southampton.” Her own renovated house, which was named “Linden” after trees on the 9-acre property, is far from ugly—it was one of the earliest designs of noted architect Grosvenor Atterbury (circa 1899). But it also can’t be described as aﬀordable—even for the regular rich—at its current asking price of $45 million, down from an initial ask of $67.5 million. The Friedrichs actually built their state-of-the-art mansion inside the shell of a classic, shingled, modified Cotswolds-style cottage, located at 160 Ox Pasture Road, on one of the largest parcels of land in the heart of the estate section. “They did everything down to the framing,” Guillaume Duprée, one of their contractors, said of the Friedrichs. “A lot, a lot, a lot of work, for a couple of years. Everything is really, really unique.” What’s most unique, though, is how the Friedrichs grafted serious bling onto history. With its cozy red-and-brick French kitchen, its sinks carved from single pieces of stone and cabinets made entirely of oak (all new), and its leather-lined library (mostly vintage old; the leather panels had been hidden under decades of paint), the house conjures the glory days of Southampton’s original cottage set. But the house also has state-of-the-art guts, meaning plumbing 50 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

postcard, and a peek insiLinden in a turn-of-the-last-century de its new crystal palace poolhouse.

and electricity, of course, but also security and telecommunications systems; tennis, bocce and paddleball courts; a restored outdoor pool and pavilion; a pond and spectacular fountain; and a spa, gym, heated pool and waterfall set within a new crystal pavilion (which, like the pool house, has its own kitchen). So it has the bells and fireworks to fulfill the ambitions of the rare sort who not only want a mansion like this, but can aﬀord to take care of one. “It’s a new house with the ambience of old,” said Harald Grant, the Sotheby’s broker who shares the listing with Michaela Keszler of Elliman. “It’s an anomaly. You can’t compare it with anything. It’s very subtle and private” (meaning hidden behind privets, walls and a gate). “It doesn’t scream, ‘I’m the big boy in town,’ but I think it’s the nicest oﬀ-water house in Southampton.” Adds Keszler, a longtime friend of the Friedrichs, “Something like this doesn’t exist normally in the Hamptons.” But then again, very little about today’s Hamptons is “normal.”

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A leaded window in the study looks out on the swimming pool

The study with the current owner’s Andy Warhol portrait of Frederick II, aka Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

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Linden has been dated to as early as 1880 by some, and in its original incarnation had only a tentative attribution to Atterbury. But in actuality, the house appears to have been one of his first commissions, completed simultaneously in time for the 1900 season along with two others, including one for Southampton’s prominent Parrish family. Neighbors were aghast when electrical wires were strung on visible poles to electrify the 16 acres the estate then comprised. It was originally built for Grange Sard, chairman of Rathbone & Sard, a stove manufacturing concern in Albany, where Sard also ran the Union Trust Company. Three years later, the Sards celebrated at their new Hamptons estate: One of their daughters was getting married there to a son of Heber Bishop, a recently deceased Cuban sugar mogul, who left his magnificent jade gemstone collection to the Metropolitan Museum. In spring 1912, George Sard rented a cottage on the property to Rufus L. Patterson, who subsequently bought the entire two-and-a-half story frame residence that fall. Patterson then hired Atterbury to alter and refresh it, at an estimated cost of $30,000, likely less than the cost of the Friedrichs’ kitchen sink. Vintage postcards indicate that few external changes were made to the original design. Patterson, who initially gave the house his middle name, Lenoir, was from North Carolina, where he’d invented a machine to make cigarettes and founded American Machine and Foundry (known as AMF), a subsidiary of the American Tobacco Co. It evolved into a company making everything from bowling-pin setting machines to bicycles. After Patterson’s death in 1943, Lenoir stayed in his family until 1956, when his widow (who spent winters at 834 Fifth, featured here in September 2012) sold the estate to Elizabeth and Lloyd Hilton Smith. He was a former Yale Daily News editor, a co-founder of William F. 52 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

Buckley’s National Review and a Texas oilman. She was a Humble Oil heiress. Though Smith was “almost paralyzingly soft-spoken,” according to Buckley, the couple was socially active and turned Patterson’s tennis court and lawn into two croquet fields, where guests like the Duke of Marlborough and his mother, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, would play in a game so ritualized it was consecrated in a 1964 New York Times story by the paper’s then-social observer Charlotte Curtis. Oddly, the column would later call Smith “socially reclusive.” That would have been news to the gossip columnist Suzy, who regularly chronicled events at Linden. Indeed, at the debut of a Smith daughter, Suzy rhapsodized over the family’s party tent: “One of the 10 most beautiful tents in the country,” she wrote, adding “not one of your usual rented jobs, either . . . Blush pink and printed with a dark forest green bamboo design, it belongs to the Smiths, who decided long ago . . . it was easier to buy one.” Now, that’s reclusion! Lloyd Smith’s children sold the property after his 1999 death. Some empty acres went first, and then the Friedrichs bought the house and the remaining land for $8.5 million before embarking on their eight-figure renovation. When they later moved to Zurich, they rented the estate to James Clark, the Silicon Valley superstar, and his wife, model Kristy Hinze. Though the Clarks had an option to buy, they reportedly walked away from a signed contract because they preferred living in California. “If we were going to live on the East Coast, we would have bought the property,” Clark recently said. “I still believe it is one of the nicest in Southampton.” And somewhere out there is someone who agrees it’s one of the nicest—and has the wherewithal to own it, the ambition to use it and no desire to scream about it. ✦

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Another must is eating seafood at Marius et Janette. It has been around for 40 years and is still an amazing restaurant. Also, enjoy lunch at Café de Flore and watch the world go by at Boulevard Saint-Germain. I love to sample the bread at Poilâne, a famous bakery. In the winter, take a trip to Angelique and try some of their delectable hot chocolate. Finally, if you want a great place to sit outside, go to Café Marly for lunch and enjoy the view of The Louvre and I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid. For shopping, a great place to go is the Dries Van Noten boutique, as well as Merci’s home store in Paris. Isabel Marant is another great boutique and embodies French chic style. Another must-visit place is the original Hermès boutique in Paris on Rue Saint-Honoré. Finally, I’d recommend spending time in a French pharmacy . . . the stores are full of amazing creams and beauty potions. Most important, walk around Paris and let the Parisian spirit intoxicate you . . .

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Traveling is the oxygen to my creativity. It inspires my life—I am passionate about architecture, design and colors, so every village from Provence to India is fascinating. I love to go on buying trips. In France, I work directly with local vendors and dealers. They know my taste and I love their unique pieces. My next inspiration trip is going to be Spain. I am really inspired by the Spanish culture, everything from food to art and design. There is a fabulous bohemian and artful spirit about Spain.

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I always find something amazing in the places I visit. I have saffron from a spice market in Istanbul, Turkey; an amazing white cotton dress from Symi, Greece; and a beautiful straw bag I purchased in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when visiting my dad.

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My favorite place to travel is Rio de Janeiro. It’s the perfect blend of history, culture, and natural vitality. There is always something to see, like the lush gardens and buildings, some designed by Oscar Niemeyer. There are so many parts of the city with distinctly different styles and cultural influences—both old and modern, all balanced in perfect harmony.

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I love to spend my time with my son Lorenzo and my daughter Livia, whether it’s at the beach or rooftop pool at the Fasano. I try to absorb as much of the locale as possible with my kids, so we check out museums and live performances. We usually dine at Churrascarias, a Brazilian steakhouse, and peruse the Ipanema flea market on Sunday mornings.

Arts is located, or sugarloaf Mountains. The Arches of Lapa in downtown Rio are a true marvel of human engineering . . . and no matter what, don’t miss the absolutely awe-inspiring Christ statue, which overlooks the city as far as the eye can see.

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I find traveling to be incredibly inspirational and reinvigorating for mind, body, and spirit. It presents the rare opportunity to experience a different part of the world, discover new trends and explore the history of another culture. Ultimately it gives me that energy for creating, improving and re-inventing my life and work.

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ith her flowing dress, pork-pie hat and movie-star shades, Savannah Buffett sweeps easily down Sag Harbor’s Main Street and onto the porch of the American Hotel. And somehow there’s no way not to wonder “who’s that girl?” Known as “Savvy” to her friends, Buffett has enjoyed a lifelong summer romance with the town that helped launch her as a galin-the-know. “She has that tastemaker quality,” says her friend, the filmmaker and Johnson & Johnson heir, Jamie Johnson. “If people want advice, they rely on Savannah.” Through her show Ex-Pats (on YouTube’s Reserve Channel); through her design consulting work and her support of the music education charity Playing for Change, Buffett offers an artistic sensibility that is producing exciting results. “I’ve always had a hard time describing what I do,” she says with a slight trace of frustration. “A friend called me a ‘life stylist,’ someone who brings beautiful and positive and inspiring things and people together. I’ll take that. I’m happy to think of myself that way. It gives me a good and liberating platform for all the things I want to take on.” Buffett’s “platform” is a worldview that draws heavily and lovingly on two places very much in this year’s spotlight: Sag Harbor and Montauk. “Heading out here has been a constant,” Buffett says. “As a family, we bounced around the wider area a bit. We’ve been in the Sag Harbor area for about 20 years now, and it’s just an incredibly important tradition for us.” The clan of three children she belongs to is headed by singer Jimmy Buffett and his wife, Jane. The elder Buffett’s beach bum persona has helped him build a musical empire and devoted following, but in recent years he’s added a serious literary

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‘Oh, he’s an inspiration—for sure,’ Savannah Buffett says of her father, Jimmy Buffett. ‘No person has to be one thing for life. You can be whatever you want.’

Previous spread: Buffett wears the Yellow Manon tunic by Figue, availble from Figue, 68 Jobs Lane, Southampton, 631.488.4478. She also wears G1 Olive Cotton Drill short, available from Calypso, 21 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 631.329.0033. To her side is a hand woven African hat from Love, Adorned, 156 Main Street, Amagansett, 631.267.7720 Opposite page: Buffett wears a Catherine Malandrino Bliege Gown in pine, available from Catherine Malandrino, 27 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 631.324.4063. Gold-plated, stone, enamel and crystal scarab necklace and bracelet both by Lele Sadoughi, available at The Editorialist, theeditorialist.com. Ring is Buffett’s own

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reputation (and commercial success) as a memoirist and novelist. With touring and business deals that include the Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise bar and restaurant chains, the Los Angeles Times has estimated his annual income to exceed $40 million. It’s a model of expansion and growth that is not lost on his eldest daughter. “Oh, he’s an inspiration—for sure,” she says, exhaling audibly to deal with the size of that fact. She has his example guide her: “No person has to be one thing for life. You can be whatever you want.” As for the Buffett family affinity to Long Island’s beaches and bays, that goes deeper than celebrity or local glamour, Savannah says. “The ocean thing,” she chuckles, “is major. My great-grandfather was a captain, and my grandfather was a shipbuilder. He and my grandmother lived in a shipyard in Alabama.” Life by the sea became central to Jimmy Buffett’s records, and central to the life of his family. “I was a big boater in my teens, and got into surfing in my twenties. Water is so prevalent in my story and in my life out here,” Buffett says. “I just feel incredibly blessed in that relationship.” Sag Harbor is another part of that connection. With a little more grit to its persona than its agrarian neighbors, owing this trait to its whaling and manufacturing past, Sag Harbor is a snug fit for the Buffett family’s maritime lineage and sensibility. “The harbor feels like a great vibe,” she says, casting a quick glance to the wharf and clearly savoring today’s return to town. “What I love about Sag Harbor is that it’s kept its village quality and still hasn’t gotten too fancy.” Buffett’s frame of reference on these matters is a particularly wide one. Jamie Johnson remembers meeting her while “essentially crashing a party at the Buffetts’” with fellow out-andabout stalwart Bingo Gubelmann. “It turned out to be hosted by Savannah’s mother, but the family welcomed us, anyway,” he says. He adds that the new gang “had some wild, crazy nights. We were just old enough for parties and were eager to expand our horizons.” By day, Savannah kept one foot in a different Sag Harbor, working at the long-gone and much-lamented Paradise Diner, a few doors away from where she sits for the interview. “I was a AUGUST 2013 • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 73

counter girl there, pouring coffee and serving pancakes” to fishermen and cops, she says with a wistful smile. “I loved that place.” This particular day, she’s missing another local outpost: Book Hampton (whose Sag Harbor store closed in March but may reopen at a new location). Buffett says she thrives not just on books but on the in-the-moment Sag Harbor: She mentions the moments of peace savored at the acclaimed Yoga Shanti studio. That brand of sexy enlightenment eclipses a bacon-and-eggs past: Buffett came into the world in an Aspen, Colorado that at the time was more Hunter S. Thompson than Gulfstream IV. In short order the family moved to St. Barts and stayed there until she was six. “It wasn’t on everyone’s radar then,” she says. “It was a pirate town. A chic French pirate town.” After stints in Nashville and New York City’s suburbs, the Buffetts settled down in a Palm Beach that was starting to shed the last of its sleepy Florida quality. “I was at a magnet school for the arts in West Palm. It was an amazing place,” she says, describing how she refined and harnessed there her instinct for dramatic storytelling that had been evident from her early childhood. She put that storytelling to use, studying acting while keeping a hand in the wider visual arts. “It put me a little out of sync with some of the people I knew, who mostly went to boarding school in the Northeast,” Buffett says. But, “I’m very proud of it. An arts school—a public arts school. I was lucky to be in Palm Beach, but to have a different experience.” Buffett headed west to Pitzer College, perched on the eastern border of Los Angeles. The liberal arts ethos there left her with a wide-ranging curiosity and an instinct for connections both social and aesthetic. And in the college’s communal exchange that was dormitory life, she

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Opposite page: Buffett wears a Yellow Manon Tunic by Figue, available from Figue, 68 Jobs Lane, Southampton, 631.488.4478. She wears a Calypso Ancilla Chevron Maxi Skirt from Calypso, 21 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 631.329.0033. Alkemie gold octopus cuff bracelet is Buffett’s own

When she was younger, Savvy developed this thing of giving voice to others. Now, she’s doing her voice. She’s a creative entrepreneur.” —Jena Malone

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says she truly came alive. “It was a great experience living on my hall,” she says. “I met some musicians, and living within that little community really inspired me.” Her affinity for rock ‘n’ roll swept Buffett into the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles adjacent to Griffith Park and bohemian Silver Lake. The actress/musician Jena Malone, whose impressive film work includes Into the Wild and this summer’s Hunger Games sequel, says of her friend, “Savvy has a voice and an insight into how to get the best out of people.” Living communally with a gang of hustling young creative types, Buffett became a muse and a driving force for a new artistic wave. “We built a studio space that became a place for people to experiment and to move forward,” she says. “Everyone was in a band, or [were] young actors.” She laughs about that time and makes it clear how formative it was. “My position was sort of as ‘the only girl,’ which has been a common theme in my life—the ‘den mother’ in a way.” That sense of caring for allies and sharing with outsiders created the basis for much of what followed, she says. “I wanted to bring people together to listen. I want to help out people I believe in. I wanted the world to know about these wonderful things they were doing.” And the world did find out. “When you’re 20 and someone’s hanging out and saying, ‘This band’s going to be big’—you hear that a lot,” says Jamie Johnson. “But it really happened.” Buffett helped champion and guide housemate Adam Levine’s band Maroon 5 into stardom as one of the biggest acts of the last decade. Jenny Lewis, another Buffett pal and project, formed the band Rilo Kiley and established herself as one of the most critically acclaimed songwriters and performers of the era. Judging from the differences between those artists, it was as if Buffett had corralled Beach Boys California and Joan Didion California together—no mean feat. “Savannah is a person who can identify the value in good music,” says Johnson. “She’s just aware of talent before others are. Before Maroon 5 was famous, people questioned her, but time has certainly proved her right. Experience has confirmed her skills, talent and taste.” As we sit in the Sag Harbor sunlight, it’s clear that a good deal of Buffett’s music 74 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

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awareness was formed here on the East End and that she takes serious pleasure in reflecting on the past and enjoying the vital present. As a teenager she assisted the painter John Alexander in Amagansett by day and would drift over to the nearby Stephen Talkhouse at night for deep soul reggae. “Toots & The Maytals!” she says with delight. “They’re a staple at the Talkhouse, year in, year out. And Toots is just so inspiring—he’s still doing it.” Her love of surfing and of space also took her out of Sag Harbor, even farther east to this season’s other white-hot and rapidly transforming village, Montauk. The Surf Lodge is now an established epicenter of hip Montauk and has competition from Ruschmeyer’s, a seaside outpost of the Miami-Manhattan-Williamsburg King & Grove hotel chain, in its aim to attract the area’s beautiful surf-toned clientele. Buffett approves of the scene and the music at both places, saying, “It’s not dance. It’s reggae-centric, rock ‘n’ roll-centric, so the vibe is good.” She makes what she calls a crucial distinction between the new Montauk hot spots and some of the ‘Manhattan-by-the-sea’ nightlife that has popped up elsewhere in the Hamptons. “I never understood the idea of coming out here and spending lots of time in nightclubs, so what’s going on out there is a nice combination—some music and socializing, but outdoors.” Buffet approves of the “organic” notions of the moment. The spirit of Montauk and Sag Harbor that people love is glamorous but it’s a laid-back yogi, outdoorsy glamour which hates to be seen as trying too hard, she says. Surf Lodge and Ruschmeyers have the right “vision” and Buffet thinks “their love for Montauk is very pure and true.” Buffett continues her life story, explaining that once success pulled her Los Feliz scene outward, she was drawn back to Florida, this time to Miami. “I went without a big plan, but was

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I’m just happy to be single, to be healthy and to be on the move and to be inspired. But I do feel the momentum. I feel like I’m hitting my stride.

Opposite page: Buffett wears the Anouk Dress by Figue, available from Figue, 68 Jobs Lane, Southampton, 631.488.4478. She also wears a Dannijo cuff bracelet, available from The Editorialist, editorialist.com, 888.988.3348. House of Waris cocktail ring is Buffett’s own.

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drawn to the possibilities,” she says. The Miami setting, she says, led naturally into a venture that drew on and deepened her connection to the sounds of her youth. Jena Malone remembers that when they first met there, Buffett was tapping into some of the same seaside music energy she finds in Montauk and Amagansett. “She was DJing,” Malone says. “It was always deep Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder. And no matter how many musicheads would be at a party, she was the one who would put on the best tunes.” In fact, Buffett over the last few years has maintained a gig spinning records (“curating,” she calls it with reverence) at Miami’s SoHo House and has worked hard on her own and within her family enterprise to spread the word on the music that matters to her. The passion Buffett has for music has carried her from what Malone calls “backstage at Madison Square Garden—completely into her own element.” One culminating example was her coverage of JazzFest in New Orleans. There, working for Mark Cuban’s AXS-TV, she delivered ten hours of keen reportage along with interviews with Dave Matthews, local deity Allen Toussaint and many others. Buffett’s relationship with music is perhaps reaching its zenith with her involvement with the Playing for Change Foundation. “I was so struck by [founder] Mark Johnson’s love for music, and it took me straight into the ways in which music brings people together,” she says. The organization unites a stunning range of musicians from across multiple cultures and genres to create beautiful reinterpretations of modern standards like “Stand By Me” and “Imagine.” And its cause is as dazzling as its recordings: All the proceeds go to music and arts programs that enrich the lives and possibilities of kids worldwide, Buffett says. Big-name artists are quick to sign on: Buffett helped imagine and broker Keith Richards’ recent involvement on a Bob Marley track during a late night at the Surf Lodge. Also at her behest, Maroon 5 contributed its song “Daylight.” “It’s the most inspired I’ve ever been by a charity project,” she says. “It’s about travel, about music and about giving back. We’re keeping a cycle of joy and creativity going.” AUGUST 2013 • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 77

The threads of travel, personal growth and connection Buffett has built in her life are woven through yet another recent project near and dear to her heart: the online documentary series Ex-Pats, a cornerstone of YouTube’s new Reserve Channel. Ex-Pats follows the stories of people who have walked away from conventional careers in conventional settings to unlock themselves personally and creatively. She says she was drawn to the project because it channeled her own searching into an intriguing and uplifting form and satisfied her itch to explore how people take risks and move to interesting new backdrops, to tap into personal creative resources and re-energize their lives. “I had been pursuing the idea of travel on film, and I got this dream job,” she says, adding that the proof is on camera. The show has solid production credits, and Buffett herself carries the proceedings along on a wave of good humor and upbeat support for her subjects. “It’s about people’s stories,” she says, simply, describing, “people—often very successful ones—who were stuck in a rut and who broke out. The people in Ex-Pats took chances and created new lives and businesses. I was so inspired. It’s about self-determination and self-creation.” When Jena Malone thinks of Buffett, her mind can go to “Miami, or Key West, or Jamaica.” But she’s quick to drive back to one key destination. The East End, she says, “is homey and restorative for Savannah.” And so it goes this season. Buffett is a bit drained from the music, TV and design consulting projects. And a healthy chunk of the next few months will be spent reveling—not only in her own recent growth and evolution, but that of Sag Harbor and of Mon-

Opposite page: Buffett, holding her family’s puppy Lola while Gracie looks on, wears a Veronica Beard Bonfire Bandanna Print silk longsleeve T-shirt, available from Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, 212.753.4000. She also wears the White Cotton Meadow Skirt by Johnny Was, available on johnnywas. com. Sidney Garber necklace and House of Waris cocktail ring are Buffett’s own.

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Savannah’s just aware of talent before others are. Before Maroon 5 was famous, people questioned her, but time has certainly proved her right. Experience has confirmed her skills, talent, and taste. —Jamie Johnson

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tauk. They’re two places that have become larger, sexier versions of themselves. “Surfing became popular in Montauk and people came out. We’re all chasing that epic feeling of catching a wave. I’ve seen that—places transformed and opened up.” The girl who grew up keeping horses at Deep Hollow Ranch takes a long view of the shifting scene. She’s wry about “not wanting to sound like one of those people who’s just missing the past,” but betrays some hope that things won’t get too exciting and different. “Maybe all the attention on Montauk will wax and wane over the years. It’s such a beautiful place—and it’s hard to mess with it too much.” As Sag Harbor swirls around us, Buffett is somewhat less interested in her own story than she is in what’s going on around her, the style and motion of the people passing by. Jena Malone told me, “When she was younger, Savvy developed this thing of giving voice to others. Now, she’s doing her own voice. She’s a creative entrepreneur.” Jamie Johnson honed the point a bit further. “She’s a catalyst,” he told me forcefully before I met her. “She plays that role with friends and family. She’s a resource for taste and creativity. She has an eye, and people recognize that. She has always had a big voice, a big leadership role within family projects. And now she has that on her own with Ex-Pats.” Still, when I confront her with all the praise from her rooting section, she’s more in a mood to settle into her Long Island summer. “I’m happy to be single, to be healthy and to be on the move and inspired,” she says, smiling into the sunlight. “But I do feel the momentum. I feel like I’m hitting my stride.” Buffett leans forward across our table. “I want to travel—and I want to ask questions. For me, the answer is that you don’t have to define and limit yourself.” Savvy lets go into a smile on this last note. In the meantime, there’s a precious sense of home to be found on those old ocean roads from Sag Harbor out to Montauk and the surf. July and August will be lovely, “But September on the East End is the best. The energy of summer is great, but locals live for September.” ✦ 78 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

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Family These second-generation Long Islanders explain how their quaint surroundings and bonds with nature have shaped their characters

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We all want to have cabins, our own gardens and build a community. It’s important to preserve what my dad created, both with his art and the vineyard. This will be a collaboration among the four of us. We are both synchronized with each other and have our own visions for it too.

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—Francesca Channing

The Channing Sisters HARVARD-EDUCATED Walter Channing took two risks: The first was buying a 100-acre estate north of the highway in 1976, and the second was naming his fledgling vineyard (officially opened in 1997), the Channing Daughters, after his four children. Years later, those risks have more than paid off. The vineyard now produces between 10,000 and 12,000 cases of delicious wine a year, and the Channing girls have proven themselves to be brilliant ambassadors for the brand, as four of the most beguiling and beautiful women in the Hamptons. The land has been another plus, having yielded more than wine because, it turns out, Walter Channing’s other passion is creating magnificent sculptures out of wood. He’s known best for his upside-down trees with giant “pencils” that emerge from their roots. Indeed, roots play a big part in the Channing sisters’ ethos, and understandably so, because as Mayflower descendants, with a signer of the Declaration of Independence among their ancestors to boot, they feel deep connections to the place in which they grew up. Although they vary in age and interests, the daughters all profess a shared love for the vineyard, for their father’s art and for the local community. Francesca, 34, an interior designer who also helps prepare homes in the Hamptons for sale and looks forward to bringing the family business into the next phase, says, “We all want to have cabins, our own gardens and build a community. It’s important to preserve what my dad created, both with his art and the vineyard. This will be collaboration among the four of us. We are both synchronized with each other and have our own visions for it, too.” Part of that vision includes adding components of the sisters’ individual interests to the overall experience. Isabella, 31, is a qualified yoga instructor who has been working for the past three years as a health coach. “I envision that we will also expand into other areas of health and wellness for the community.” Currently, she has partnered with One Ocean Yoga, John Seelye’s yoga center which offers daily classes in a setting that looks out over the vines. Sylvia, 20, will be a senior this fall at Oberlin College, where she is studying geology and thinking of pursuing a master’s degree in soil science. A graduate of the Ross School, Sylvia started the communal garden at Ross and still returns to teach younger students there about plants. “I work with various farmers around here, and I feel very connected to the agrarian community.” The youngest daughter, Nina, 16, is at a pre-college program at Bard College studying psychology. Francesca points out that all four sisters feel honored to participate in the family’s “dialogue” with the land and says she is delighted that her father has put most of the property into a conservation easement to protect it from development. “We want to preserve the land, plant trees and keep the legacy going, both in terms of the art and of the beauty of the space,” Francesca says. “Whenever I make decisions, I try to make them ecologically sensitive. It’s a delicate piece of land and a delicate island.”

by Daisy

Prince photographed by Eric Strifﬂer hair and makeup by David Tibolla hair and makeup assistance by Allison Brooke

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If an egret hypnotically flies by, we will all watch in silence . . . and we all cheer when we see that the swans have made it successfully through the season with all of their new babies.

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—Alex Chantecaille

Alex Chantecaille AS VICE PRESIDENT of sales and promotions for Chantecaille, her family’s cosmetics company, Alex Chantecaille is constantly circumventing the globe. But all her time spent traveling—city to city and country to country—to ensure that retail partners are trained to the highest standard and that the company's sales and promotional strategies are implemented—makes going home that much sweeter. “My parents started to come out to the Hamptons in the early ’70s,” says Chantecaille. “My mom [Sylvie Chantecaille—one of the creators of Prescriptives cosmetics for Estée Lauder] saw the look on my dad’s face when they were in Central Park over a weekend and she said, ‘I’ve got to get this man out of the city and into the real countryside!’ Their artist friends were all coming out here and renting little shacks in Sag Harbor and Sagaponack.” So the Chantecailles bought the house they still own in East Hampton, back when Sylvie was pregnant with Alex. Today—though the family lives sporadically in New York City and New Jersey—they consider the Hamptons to be their true home. That’s where, after all, Alex Chantecaille grew up—attending summer camp at Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, where she still plays tennis with fellow locals Taylor and Lizzy Plimpton, and where she says her natural feeling of ease in nature and the ocean originated. “It's taught me how to be happy with myself,” she says of the area. “There are so many lovely, quiet moments you can have out here that remind me of how important it is just to be content and at peace with yourself. Reading in the hammock, walking by the duck pond and along the beach; biking around Georgica Pond. It can be very social out here, but I think it's tremendous to spend time alone. I find it very strengthening to be independent in nature.” Alex Chantecailles’ connection to nature has proved to be important for more than just a serene state of mind. “Much of what we do in our family company is work with flowers in our skincare and fragrances, but we also make these gorgeous palettes that represent, support and celebrate the conservation of various endangered animals,” says Chantecaille. “I believe our passion for these causes originated from being out here. If we are outside for lunch in the garden, and an egret hypnotically flies by, we will all watch in silence. If we see a fox racing past us on the golf course, we consider ourselves blessed, and we all cheer when we see that the swans have made it successfully through the season with all of their new babies, come late summer.” A moment with Chantecaille proves how her lifelong immersion in such a rare, quiet elegance has transcended her—yielding a calm demeanor and the ability to carry herself with unmistakable strength.

by Haley

Friedlich photographed by Jessica Nash hair and makeup by David Tibolla Emmanuelle Tux Shirt in Clean White and Salome Beading by Figue, 212.219.8954

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Lizzy and Taylor Plimpton THERE ARE FEW names more synonymous with the literary scene in the Hamptons than that of George Plimpton. Now his son Taylor is chugging right along the same path, having written Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark (Crown) as well as co-edited the anthology The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays (Abrams). Taylor Plimpton grew up out East, not only during the eternal summers, but also on weekends, when he visited his mother, who lived full-time in Bridgehampton. His father would spend time with him, when he wasn’t editing the Paris Review, teaching him to play tennis and driving him around in an old Vietnam-era army Jeep, which was in the words of his son, “totally wrecked; it’s top speed was only 40 miles an hour, and it was completely understated—very ‘my dad.’” George Plimpton was also the honorary fireworks commissioner of New York City, and so Taylor remembers that every July in honor of Bastille Day, his father would put the shows together and then emcee the event. Literary giants were part of the backdrop growing up, Taylor remembers playing touch football with his father, Jim Salter and John Irving in the field behind Peter Matthiessen’s house and how Kurt Vonnegut used to drop in and use their pool. Like every local, Taylor wishes there wasn’t so much traffic in the summer but even so, he loves “the sense of landscape and emptiness that the beaches have.” As part of his quintessential seaside upbringing, he spent long stretches of his childhood learning how to tie a bowline knot and capsizing Flying Juniors and Sunfish, at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. The younger Plimpton is so fond of the Devon Yacht Club, in fact, that he and his wife, actress, burgeoning screenwriter and fellow local Lizzy Eggers got married there a little over a month ago, with 150 friends looking on during a tropical storm. After the wedding the pair headed over to Stephen Talkhouse for a couple of beers before leaving for a road trip to Key West for their honeymoon. While their romance isn’t one that began with their being childhood sweethearts, the pair have been together for eight years, and Eggers is a fellow attendee of the same sailing camp at Devon, albeit a few years later. The new Mrs. Plimpton comes from a storied family herself. Her mother was a muse and an intimate part of Mick Jagger’s circle while the rocker was in Ireland visiting Irish author and conservationist Desmond Guinness. Eggers is using her mother’s unpublished memoir of this period as fodder for a screenplay. And the literary tradition rolls on and on . . .

by Daisy

Prince photographed by Eric Strifﬂer hair and makeup by David Tibolla hair and makeup assistance by Allison Brooke

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—Joey Wölffer

Joey Wölffer CLAD IN A FULL-LENGTH embroidered dress, turquoise chandelier earrings and a necklace of her own making, Joey Wölffer, 31, is far more than a symbolic representation of the Hamptons good life; she’s an entrepreneur and new business owner, as well as a newlywed. And her new business? Three-and-a-half years ago, Wölffer started The Styleliner, a renovated delivery truck-turned-mobile accessory dream. Packed with an array of accessories (and select apparel), it reflects Wölffer’s personal look: a choice between boho glam and Mad Max bohemian, maybe even both. “MadBo!” she jokes. She stocks the vehicle with products by little-known international designers, such as KMO, My BOB, and Mes Demoiselles, alongside her own designs, in the way of intricate minaudières and colorful beach totes. The outside of the truck is painted to mimic a vanity case and emblazoned with a banner declaring, “Joey Wölffer, The Styleliner.” Needless to say, it’s been a hit wherever it has pulled in. “You come in and instantly feel like you’re on vacation,” says Wölffer of her boutique on wheels, which she parks at Wölffer Estate Vineyard and Stable, the celebrated 170-acre vineyard and world-class equestrian facility in Sagaponack started by her late father, Christian Wölffer. Her home turf was the logical starting point for her business, but she has since taken the Styleliner to other cities like L.A. and New York. It’s a business category that runs in her blood: Wölffer worked as a designer in London and New York but changed course to follow in the family’s entrepreneurial and sartorial footsteps: Her great, great grandfather founded London department store Marks & Spencer, and that’s a pedigree she’s proud of. “You have to be creative with how you sell,” Wölffer says of her atypical approach. Last fall, she took on another responsibility, assuming the title of co-owner of Wölffer Estate Vineyard, with her elder brother Marc; the sudden death of their father five years ago left the operation in their hands. “Our goal is for it to be a lifestyle brand. It’s not just about drinking wine,” she says. “It’s about a connection to the wine and the property and what we can add.” Wölffer’s husband of two years, Max Rohn, has joined the family business, as the vineyard’s general manager. Her businesses keep her busy, but she makes time for a favorite activity: riding. Wölffer is an accomplished equestrian, having trained at her family’s stable from the age of six. “Riding around that property is such a connection to my dad; I see him everywhere,” she says. Wölffer competes in the low amateur jumpers category, regularly riding in The Hampton Classic, which she will do this August on her eight-year-old, throughbred, Antonov. Joey Wolffer has style and guts and a will to succeed. We’ll drink to that.

by Cindi

Cook photographed by Eric Strifﬂer hair and makeup by Pam Geiger

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An American Eden: Gardiners Island in the Age of the Goelets

The most prized real estate on the East End isn’t on Further Lane. Gardiners Island has been protected by one family for almost four centuries, since their ancestors received it in a grant from the English Crown. Today, Gardiners—and its overseers—are more shrouded in secrecy than ever before. by Christopher Lawrence exclusive photos by Chip Dayton and Doug Kuntz

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y friend is a gentleman, a New York City clubman. He’s laughing, but he still doesn’t want his name anywhere near a piece on the recent life of Gardiners Island. “In my 80 years, I’ve never seen anyone chasing butterflies with nets. But there they were . . .” Once upon a time, he hunted birds on the island, was a guest at a black tie dinner at its Georgian manor house, and was even offered a seasonal lease for shooting rights during the 1960s. The sum was a then-astronomical $100,000. My friend is still an avid fisherman though, and these days his closest glimpses of the intensely private 3,300 acre paradise set between Montauk to the southeast, and Orient Point to the northwest, come from a boat during fishing runs. One afternoon maybe five years ago, the island’s ruling family was at play in its fields. “They were in pith helmets. With a golf cart.” His friend and running buddy was along on the boat that day. The butterfly catchers were zipping along onshore? “Zip?” the partner laughs dryly, “they don’t do anything fast over there. There isn’t any rush.” “They” are the famously veiled and fabulously wealthy Goelet family. The name is pronounced “Guh-let”—reflecting a French Huguenot background, but properly Anglicized just as 17th-Century New Amsterdam was becoming New York. The Goelets are now the sole beneficiaries and stewards of the island’s untouched beauty and seclusion. The money that underwrites its annual upkeep—thought to be well in excess of $2 million—is of 18th-Century vintage, derived largely from vast holdings in Manhattan real estate, and managed in virtual silence from a townhouse on East 67th Street. The island’s ruling Gardiner line was woven into the Goelet name by the marriage in 1976 of Alexandra Gardiner Creel to Robert G. Goelet and the births of their two children, a daughter and a son named after their respective, now deceased, parents. Longstanding fears that the family would attempt to reap a payday estimated in the neighborhood of $1 billion on the island’s development rights have proved unfounded. The Goelets have accepted a conservation easement from East Hampton that precludes any development through 2025. Perhaps more significantly, the Goelets claim to have poured better than $20 million into improvements that will preserve and protect the island as an unspoiled ancestral home. Gardiners Island is more hidden and beyond reach than perhaps at any time since it was granted—along with a lordship and complete legal dominion—to Lion Gardiner by King Charles I of England in 1639. Life on the island these days is subject to town, state and federal laws, but the place stands as the last private property in the United States held by a grant from the English Crown. While East Hampton throbs with its summer shopping and real estate frenzy, the island basks quietly in the wind and sun of the large bay that also bears the Gardiner name. Genteel butterfly catching is as raucous as it gets. These rich, on their offshore principality, are indeed quite different from you and me. “Spending time out on Gardiners Island is an unbelievable thing that I experienced in my life,” Chip Dayton told me in the fading heat of a mid-summer afternoon. Much loved around East Hampton for his spirited eccentricities, Dayton was bewitched by the island as a map-gazing schoolboy in Nassau County. He once asked why Lion Gardiner, who was ultimately granted most of Long Island by the Montaukett chief Wyandanch, had settled there, and a teacher replied simply, “He could have any land he wanted.” For Dayton, the remark launched a love affair with the place that reached its zenith with a decade’s employment on the island that continues to this day. Dayton could barely contain himself when asked about the paradise—the manor house (where he and his wife were also guests) and other buildings, the windmill, the miles of roads (“paths,

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Opposite page: Blades and Grass: The 1795 Gardiners Island windmill was for more than a century one of the island’s only sources of power. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Cherry Harbor lies beyond the sweeping lawns. (Photo by Chip Dayton) Left: All in the Family: Robert D.L. Gardiner, glimpsed in discussion with his great-nephew Robert G. “Bertie” Goelet, during one of their rare encounters on the island in the late 1990s. Gardiner’s 2004 death ended a decadeslong feud between the clans and Bertie Goelet is today the island’s steward. (Photo by Doug Kunst) AUGUST 2013 • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 91

really” says my fisherman friend as we linger offshore) and a small but vigilant private cavalry mounted on all-terrain vehicles. For Dayton, “the vibes out there are unbelievable. You feel like you’re stepping back in time.” Back in time, indeed. The island’s 27 miles of coastline bounds fields and ponds, forests of swamp maple, cherry and birch. Herds of deer are joined by horses that run in its pastures. When I was guided across Bostwick and Tobacco Bays just off the island’s northern and eastern shores, the place seemed simultaneously Edenic and laden with history. Under Lion Gardiner, the island was the very first English settlement in a New York still dominated by the Dutch. A 1639 carpenter shed is the oldest surviving wood-framed structure in the state. Indentured servants called “bound boys” were held on the island during its early years, and farmed corn, wheat, fruit, and tobacco there. Gardiners (the apostrophe was dropped by cartographers) has seen Indian wars and massacres, witch hunts and hangings. Captain Kidd himself buried treasure on the island in 1699, and threatened Lion Gardiner’s grandson John and his sons with death if the loot were disturbed. The British used Gardiners Bay and the island itself as key strategic assets in their naval campaigns during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Julia Gardiner, born on the island in 1820, married President John Tyler in 1844. That the couple spent only one summer together in East Hampton at the Gardiners’ formidable stone mansion in the village, and that Tyler had by that point been turned out of office, has not prevented generations of town historical types from referring to the building as “the Summer White House.” A century later, the family’s control of its ancestral home was placed in dire jeopardy by the drinking and recklessness of the playboy Whitney (“Winnie”) Gardiner. A spinster aunt stepped into the breach, and the island, held in trust, came under the control of Robert David Lion Gardiner and his sister, Alexandra Creel. A tiny satellite to the mainland, Gardiners Point Island was used by the United States Navy as both a lookout for German U-boats and later a range for bombing practice during World War II, but the real shooting only began later in the 1940s. An air strip was built, and hunting parties brought in the rich and powerful to offset family expenses and add to the island’s lore. Robert Gardiner later told Chip Dayton how Ernest Hemingway “would get drunk at night, stagger outside and shoot guns toward Connecticut.” Winston Guest rented the place for famously raucous shooting parties. The boats from Three Mile Harbor that ferried in the local boys hired to flush pheasant and grouse were filled with ladies of the night. “The kids weren’t supposed to know, but they all understood,” laughs Dayton. Not surprisingly, he says, C.Z. Guest later told him that she “hated the place.” Winnie Gardiner and his guests would get stone drunk and fire pistols inside the hallways of the old manor house.” The building burned in 1947, the casualty of a burning cigarette left by a guest. A fear of fire has haunted the island ever since. It adds a special drive to the pursuit of unwanted visitors by, first, the Gardiner, and now the Goelet, security forces. Robert Gardiner, flamboyant and deeply eccentric, was the face of the island for the next half century. Gardiner warred with his sister’s offspring and ran the island as a living monument to his own incomparable bloodline. Chip Dayton wound up acting as an assistant during the famously exhaustive tours during which the ladies of the East Hampton historical society (“they didn’t know what they’d gotten into”) would be bombarded for hours with the lord of the manor’s recollections and rants. When I myself spotted Gardiner in White’s Pharmacy in East Hampton in 2002, he was 90 years old. He could barely shave or bathe himself, but he was turned out in the threadbare Savile Row and Jermyn Street clothes

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Below: Hand Delivered: Gardiners Island Manor House letterhead surviving from the more social era of Robert D.L. Gardiner. (Courtesy of Chip Dayton)

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demanded by his part. He carried himself with the air of someone who, by definition, could do no wrong. For all his pomp and bluster, however, Gardiner struggled to maintain the island’s facilities and fortunes. And he warred with his sister’s offspring for mastery. When his niece Alexandra married Robert Goelet on the island in 1976, a devastating family statement was made: Robert D.L. Gardiner was not invited to the wedding. “No one was ever told about the true basis of the feud,” remembers Chip Dayton. “[Gardiner] was so bombastic. And he took it very, very hard. He never got over that.” The family cold war went white hot and continued for the last 30 years of his life. Willkie, Farr & Gallagher handled Gardiner’s continuous legal complaints regarding the Goelets’ use of the island, and he went through long periods of court-ordered exile. But for the decade before his death in 2004, he seemed to live primarily for the selective summer tours, and the even more selective winter hunts. Game dinners were often held in the small staff kitchen, but “Luncheon in the formal dining room would be catered from East Hampton,” remembers Dayton. “There were guns everywhere. If you wanted a deer, you just picked up a gun and shot it.” The island’s deer population is today estimated at 1,000 and needs to be culled by a third annually. The Goelets, not known as hunters, appear

Above: “He Could Have Any Land He Wanted” Gardiners Island, looking south, with Amagansett, Montauk, and the Atlantic beyond. Bostwick Creek is in the forground. The manor house and most of the island’s buildings, are set above Cherry Harbor, to the right. (Photo by Doug Kunst) Below: Up From The Ashes: The previous wooden manor house burned to the ground during a party in 1947. The bricks of the current Georgian building are less likely to meet the same fate. (Photo by Doug Kunst)

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to have farmed out management of the herd, perhaps to staff. “And the staff ain’t talkin’’,’ a friend told me. “Ain’t talkin’” is a theme with the Goelets. The family’s land (tracts of midtown Manhattan) and banking (Chemical) ventures created the basis of an empire that came to dwarf that of the Gardiners’. While the dimensions of the family businesses and the wealth they create is unclear, by design, the family has had a century-long history of tipping its hand through its involvement with stunning estates and homes. Ochre Court in Newport, built for Ogden Goelet by Richard Morris Hunt in 1892, rivals the Breakers for Newport “cottage” opulence. Goelet’s daughter, May, was announced by the New York Times to be carrying a dowry of nearly $600 million (adjusted) when she left the U.S. to marry the Eighth Duke of Roxburghe. Unlike some of the other Downton Abbey-esque marriages of American money to English and Scottish titles, theirs seems to have been blessed with love (and an heir, ten years in the coming) to go with all the splendor. Floors Castle, the largest inhabited castle in Scotland, set high above the River Tweed, was enlivened by May’s acquisition of a work by the cutting-edge artist Henri Matisse. May’s grandson is the current duke, who is very much a Goelet. The heir to the Gardiners Island branch of the family, Robert G. “Bertie” Goelet, Jr., is markedly less visible than his distant Scottish cousin. In his late 1990s, Bertie, then in his late teens, was spotted on the island by the author Steven Gaines during a Robert Gardiner tour Gaines attended. The old man wanted to play out the family feud with his young great-nephew, but Bertie Goelet stood his ground with impressive diplomacy and poise. Now in his late thirties, he can be glimpsed by locals arriving in East Hampton, usually by train or Jitney, before heading for Three Mile Harbor and the Captain Kidd, the vintage diesel boat that is the prime mode of transport for the island’s guests. “He’s tall and distinguished,” a local who didn’t want to be identified discussing the family, told me. “Very good-looking and very aristocratic. He’s very civilized and polite.” With the passing of Robert Gardiner, the island has rulers for whom it is simply another heirloom retreat, rather than the lynchpin of a public persona. Bertie Goelet and his sister Alexandra are said to be extremely close and to have adopted many of the hobbies and interests of their parents. They are deeply committed to the maintenance and improvement of the island, and continue in the Goelet tradition of the last three decades to employ carpenters and tradesmen to attend to every aspect of the island’s upkeep. The manor house has been altered slightly, but oil deliveries still come by barge from Greenport to the island’s northwest side. Bird watching and butterfly catching and swims at Tobaccolot Beach—“the most pristine beach on the East Coast of the United States!” says Dayton—continue as they have since the Goelet era began. As I poked around, looking for people who had had a peek into the family’s world, I learned that that “golf cart” was really an ATV with a special awning attached. But life in the Hamptons outside Gardiners Island goes on: With the restaurants in East Hampton and Sag Harbor packed, and the shops on Newtown Lane as jammed as visitors’ access to the ocean beaches, the world of the island and its low-key lord seems to be drifting further and further away from the East End and the United States. Dayton, whose exclusive photos of the island accompany this piece and who is preparing a book on the island, is delighted at that happenstance. Though he’s no longer able to return to the island, “You certainly won’t find me criticizing the Goelets,” he declares. “Private wealth will protect Gardiners Island. If Suffolk County had gotten a hold of it, they would have ruined it. Our grandchildren can go out there in 100 years, and it’ll still look the same.” As for those all-terrain vehicles that support the island’s recreation: They have other uses as well. “The security over there is unbelievable,” says Dayton. “They’ve clammed up and they don’t let anyone over.” The word around town is that the watchful eyes and regular patrols of the island’s staff have been augmented of late. Surveillance cameras are said to be mounted on tall poles often confused with those used to encourage the nesting of osprey. Among locals and fishermen the theory runs that Bertie Goelet himself receives video feeds and watches them on a bank of monitors in the office on East 67th Street. The tale adds a fun Ian Fleming touch to all the ongoing speculation about the island and its privileged inhabitants. Who knows? Much stranger things have certainly happened on Gardiners Island. And the important thing is that the legends stand. ✦

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Opposite page top: American Pastoral: “T’Other Barn” stands by the road headed east past Tobaccolot Pond, and onward to the island’s grass air strip. (Photo by Chip Dayton) Opposite page below left: The Bench at Lonetree Point: During the American Revolution, the Royal Navy spent four years moored off of Bostwick Pond. Sailors rowed in regularly to collect Gardiners Island’s most precious natural resource—fresh water. (Photo by Chip Dayton) Opposite page below right: On the Beach: Gardiners Island’s 3,300 acres are ringed by 27 miles of undisturbed waterfront. The beaches—two-and-a-half hours and a boat ride from midtown Manhattan—are some of the most pristine in the world. (Photo by Chip Dayton) Above: ISLAND MATRON: Alexandra Goelet and Robert G. Goelet (Photo by ©Patrick McMullan) AUGUST 2013 • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 95

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Design comes to life at the East End estate of Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper. by Cindi Cook photographed by Eric Strifﬂer

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Previous page: The gardens of Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper. Plenty of outdoor seating accommodates the couple’s many guests. Black iron obelisks frame a fountain while exquisite lion statuary lords over it all This page, clockwise from left: An open window on the top floor of the residence lets in the ocean air; Ingrao and Kemper relax on the sofa in the garden; a stone bench offers a respite to those who walk past Opposite page, top: A late 17th-Century armillary holds court in the sunken garden with greenery from the pergola behind Below: A bronze domed pavilion frames the entrance to the pool, with a small sampling of the rare specimen trees and plantings

“We try to understand what our clients are trying to achieve in their own lives,” says Kemper. “It’s not about just adding some furniture or putting some lamps here and there.”

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t’s hard to succinctly describe the work of Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper. Landscape designers, landscape architects, interior decorators, garden designers: Though each term applies, none alone quite fits. Ask Ingrao and Kemper, and they will say they are “lifestyle designers.” The two, partners in business and in life, are sought out design experts, both for interior and exterior. They construct interiors, exteriors, gardens and in reality, lives. “We try to understand what our clients are trying to achieve in their own lives,” says Kemper. “It’s not about just adding some furniture or putting some lamps here and there. Our clients are usually at a transitional point when we start with them, so for us, it’s an enormous responsibility. ” Although the two maintain a work studio in New York City as well as an apartment, Ingrao and Kemper call East Hampton home, most specifically Woodhouse Park, a u-shaped, 5-acre parcel and residence named after original owners Lorenzo Easton Woodhouse Jr. and his wife, Mary Kennedy Woodhouse. It was here that the Woodhouses built “The Fens,” a magnificent estate that was once one of the jewels of this privileged summer colony. Though the main building was long gone eight years ago when Ingrao and Kemper purchased the grounds, along with the carriage house, they transformed what was mostly marshy land into their own secret garden, and an outbuilding into an open, airy, meandering country cottage. Their initial parcel was 3.5 acres, but they subsequently bought an additional 1.5 acres from the neighbors to the front, who live in what is commonly called “the Playhouse,” built for the Woodhouses’ daughter. In that era Mary Kennedy Woodhouse was determined to become the supreme benefactor of the town’s social set (her husband’s uncle and neighbor, Lorenzo G. Woodhouse Sr., had been an investor and partner in Marshall Field and Company). So, in carrying out her philanthropic bent, Mrs. Woodhouse, one-upped Lorenzo Easton Woodhouse and his wife, Emma, who had supported the East Hampton Free Library and had a hand in founding the Maidstone Club. Mary donated heavily to private schools and in 1931 built Guild Hall and its John Drew Theater located just down the road. In the wake of this creative spirit, Ingrao and Kemper have created their

“We’re very interested in having the home and environment merge. This house is that; it lives out and in.” —Tony Ingrao own environment, with a decided nod to the comforts of Old World Europe. Stacks of large design books abut club chairs; an assortment of hats hangs in the hallway near the guest bedrooms, over a pair of broken-in riding boots (Kemper is a lifelong equestrian who trains at the nearby Sagpond Farm.) Pastoral scenes transform the walls; a tall, thin crackled red dish cupboard found in the back of an antique store finds a place in the kitchen; two-sided salt cellars in dark green colored glass adorn the dining room table, whose room was transformed from a garden shed; and a rectangular liquor cabinet is built into the hallway wall. The interior is reminiscent of films like The English Patient or The Golden Bowl, only this is not a staged house: Ingrao and Kemper haven’t “designed” their own home so much as watched it evolve. “We obviously care a great deal about our environment—because it’s nurturing,” says Kemper. “How you feel about your home builds your self-worth.” Ingrao chimes in: “We’re very interested in having the home and environment merge. This house is that; it lives out and in.” To fulfill that mission, sliding doors were added on either side of the main salon which open wide in the good weather. A fireplace on the right side of that room warms the space, regardless of whether it’s being used. Beams that look like they’ve been there all along were inserted into the ceilings of each room, and a small L-shaped staircase was installed in the entryway, creating an abrupt yet justified feeling. “It feels like a very whole environment,” Ingrao continued. “The entire experience is what we’re after, so that it all makes sense.”

This page, clockwise from above: An Egyptian bronze sphinx flanks a 17th-Century French staircase; a view of the terrace onto the second floor of their home; the 17th-Century French staircase, connects one stretch of the property to the next

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This page, clockwise from above: The intimate entryway to the Ingrao and Kemper residence; a cupola tops the dining shed; a dreamy photograph of the east lawn of Woodhouse Park.

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Their clients range from Saudi Arabian royalty to Baccarat’s Hotel & Residences (set to open in Manhattan in 2014). It might be his sense of adventure along with extensive formal and self-education that has brought Ingrao success. While studying finance at Drew University, he traveled to London and Brussels, where he visited homes in the countryside, falling in love with the designs and architecture. Ingrao’s plans to become a lawyer soon dissolved, and at the urging of a professor, he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design to study architecture. His career started when he moved to France, and at the age of 25, took on the restoration and overhaul of an 11th-Century abbey while he was living in the Luberon region. Thirteen years in France followed, a time that continues to influence his design aesthetic to this day. Kemper also spent five years in France, after a year at Parsons School of Design. He quickly landed a position in Paris at the lauded house of Givenchy, followed by two years at Bill Blass in New York before launching his own line. Kemper was widely featured in the fashion press in the late ’80’s and early ’90s and dressed prominent society members and famous names, including Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton, who wore his clothing at the first Clinton inaugural ball and while in the White House.

This page, clockwise from top: A modern painting by Diaz hangs in the salon framed by a Mid-century modern chair accented with vintage pillow and throw; a tortoise tops their book collection; doors open to the gardens along the back hall.

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This page, clockwise from top: A view through the foyer to the living room. The staircase was installed by Ingrao and Kemper for a dramatic entrance; Ivo, the long-haired Dachshund, greets visitors; the family room with 17th-Century hunt scenes from a Sicilian hunting lodge

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Today Ingrao and Kemper take clients shopping in Europe, and their work keeps them traveling extensively, to Honolulu, Santa Barbara and the Middle East. But East Hampton always beckons. Cross through the front gate of their Hamptons estate and you are enveloped in the expanse of manicured lawn and plantings, with virtually every type of tree and bush imaginable: Monkey Puzzle, Japanese Maple, Sycamore and Hinoki Cypress. A giant sheared beech holds court on the front lawn, brought in on a boat from Rhode Island, with another in the center of the circle at the driveway’s end. More than 1,000 total trees fill Ingrao and Kemper’s garden. A stone path leads around the side of the house to the entrance. Two brick pillars topped with lion sculptures flank the entrance to a fountain surrounded by stone seating. A dining area is located off to the right, and to the left, steps lead up the main lawn where variegated boxwoods punctuate the property along with statues from great estates the world over. Ingrao and Kemper try to achieve a harmonious synchronization with their garden and home design. Although they admire the formality of French gardens—and the wild and wispy nature of English gardens—the two find the gardens of Belgium more of a hybrid, and much more entertaining. “They are very natural but possess much more texture,” Ingrao says of the Belgian aesthetic. Their property follows suit: It rolls and climbs, leading visitors while asking, telling, and surprising along the way. Statuary is another obvious love of Ingrao and Kemper. A large decorative stone arch sits at the curve of the front drive. The back lawn is dotted with a variety of sculpted accents, some animal, some human. At the entrance to the pool lies a stone gazebo with a terrace. It rests on the top of a small hill and is in in an idyllic spot to take in the view beyond. Ingrao and Kemper play with the land as if it were a giant chessboard, the chess pieces being trees, plantings and statues—focal points and counterpoints. Kemper already said it—their home is far more than a collection of furniture and lamps. It is an inspiring backdrop for two creative minds and their very full life together. ✦ 104 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

Tony Ingrao & Randy Kemper’s Secret Address Book Weekend Finds and Frequents For Randy Kemper and Tony Ingrao, shopping is just another part of the job. Far from a spare time activity, finding and buying is a constant for the duo, and an activity they never tire of. “Both Randy and I are inquisitive; we love to buy,” says Ingrao of their incessant roving eye. “And neither of us has the personality to not come home with something!” Lovers of furnishings large and small, the two shop everywhere they go. A month long vacation in Scotland a few years back yielded multitudinous offerings. Eventually, everything they pick finds a home, somewhere. The Hamptons offers a mecca for the ordinary and the hard-to-find. Between Sag Harbor’s plethora of antique shops and the range of home furnishings available from East Hampton to Southampton, anything from 18th century to mid-century can be found. Kemper and Ingrao shop for their own residence as well and indulge in everything else the Hamptons shopping scene has to offer, from coffee shops to lobster shacks to clothing emporiums. Here, a few of their favorite haunts:

For Antiques and Furniture: “Sag Harbor has great stores, but particularly MONC XIII. Natasha Esch has put together a sophisticated

mix of high-quality tabletops, furniture, linens and objects. It’s exceptional. I love the leather chargers she sells there.” “Youngblood in Sag Harbor is great too. “Susan always has something unusual and of exceptional quality. We almost always find something to buy there.”

Opposite page, top: Another view of the welcoming living room of the Ingrao Kemper home. Animal prints hang on the back wall alongside bespoke topiary and a mix of seating. Natural wood beams were built into the home by Ingrao and Kemper to achieve the more storied look Below: A tufted leather armchair is situated next to doorways that open to the back hall and kitchen beyond This page, clockwise from top: A bowl full of vintage sports balls and sea shells; Tony and Randy take a spin in Randy’s 1963 midnight blue Ferrari California Spider

“In Southampton, Stellar Union for mid-century furniture and paintings, and Homenature. There is always something to buy here, as well as in his shop in Amagansett. “And we love R.E. Steele Antiques in East Hampton. Russ’ chaotic environment has many hidden jewels there. Don’t be put off!”

For Clothing: “John Varvatos in East Hampton; Lazy Point and Melet Mercantile in Montauk.”

For the Garden: “Marders has wonderful things. And East Hampton Gardens is a fabulous small garden center that has a really local feel. The shop always has something interesting.”

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A variety of stories, biographies and even cocktail recipes that should be packed in every summer beach bag Sweet Nothings By Janis Thomas Penguin Group When 44-year-old Ruby McMillan’s husband leaves her for another woman, she feels at a loss for far more than the end of their 18-year marriage. Walter’s exit is anything but gentle—he leaves without a word to their children and without concern for their unpaid mortgage or how Ruby will make ends meet with nothing but her unprosperous bakery. It’s a story of putting the pieces back together and finding out that sometimes having to start over is a blessing in disguise.

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The author of Hemingway’s Girl strikes again, with her vast historical knowledge and imaginative creativity. On the heels of Gatsby fever, Call Me Zelda is the thoroughly imagined story of the intense love and turmoil that ran between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The story begins with their Jazz Age champagne-blurred, lifestyle but really explores the struggle that (both the historical and fictional) Zelda had with bipolar disorder, by detailing her relationship with her nurse in a Baltimore mental hospital.

It might be set in Cape Cod rather than the Hamptons, but the story will still strike a chord with anyone whose family has grown up at the beach. The tale begins in the summer of 1966: Summer starts and wealthy New England families descend upon the small town of Harrisport to settle into their sprawling beach cottages for the season. When a rich Southern boy breaks the heart of a local girl, a web of rivalry, love and loss begins to grow between the two families— and only comes to a head a generation later.

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Craft Cocktails By Brian Van Flandern Assouline What’s a little soaking in the sun without a tableside cocktail? Master the Gin Fizz, Singapore Sling or classic Margarita with this literal and visual (liquid) feast. Emphasizing the art of making the perfect aperitif, Craft Cocktails focuses on the elegance and simplicity of the ideal drink, providing recipes that call for few ingredients. This book will teach you everything from pouring techniques to decorating with elegant fruit garnishes. The resplendent cocktail photos are enough to make you want to take a sip directly out of the page and this worthwhile education will certainly make its way into whatever summer parties you have planned. 106 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

Eleven Days By Lea Carpenter Alfred A. Knopf Carpenter’s debut novel tells the engrossing story of Jason, a missing soldier and the ripple effect that his disappearance creates for his loving mother. The story begins on May 11, 2011—nine days after the Bin Laden raid and nine days since Jason disappeared in a Special Operations Forces mission on the same night. His mother, Sara, who had dreamed of an Ivy League education and political career for her exceptionally bright son, has accepted and supported his post 9/11 change of plans. But with Jason missing and a media circus forming outside her Pennsylvania home, Sara has the rug ripped out from under her and is left trying to connect the dots on her own. Through flashbacks and letters we learn just how heroing Jason’s experience had been up to his disappearance and the true nature of combat.

Three Things You Need to Know about Rockets By Jessica Fox Atria/Marble Arch Press Jessica Fox has crafted a memoir with an unusual tone. She was a successful writer/director working in L.A. for NASA when she started to run out of steam. Taking a leap of faith, she moved to Scotland to sell books. It’s a tale of how one decision can change the entire course of one’s life, delivered with charm and humor. Your mind won’t even mind a trip to frigid, damp Scotland when you’re reading on the sunny beach.

You Knew Me When By Emily Liebert Penguin Group Some might call it “chick lit,” but sometimes you just need a solid summer novel that pulls at your heartstrings. You Knew Me When is the story of a lost friendship between two best friends who go separate ways: Katherine to Manhattan where she becomes a high-powered cosmetics executive, and Laney, the childhood best friend left in Katherine’s dust as she becomes a young wife and mother in their hometown of Manchester, VT. They are forced back together to face their decade-old grudges when they co-inherit their childhood neighbor’s old Victorian mansion. It’s fine—nobody will see you tearing up under your beach hat and sunglasses.

Lost Luggage By Jodi Punti Marble Arch Press This is a forceful story that will capture your attention from the first page. Four men—Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristófol—share more than just the same name in different languages. They are brothers from the same father and four very different—geographically and culturally—mothers. None of them knows of the others’ existence. When their father goes missing, they are brought together on a journey to find the man that links them together and resolve unanswered questions. It’s a gripping mystery crossed with a classic adventure story, including a tolerable amount of triumphant self-discovery.

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Roxine Brown of Harmonia Inc. uses her fashion background to create breathtaking landscapes

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armonia Inc. is more than just a company name; it is Roxine Brown’s mantra for each landscape she designs. Using her fashion background and discerning eye, and working closely with her small but expert staff, she creates a harmonic balance of proportion, color and texture in each garden that she creates. Her work is tailored to the individuality of each property and each property’s owner, and the results are stand-out.

How did Harmonia Inc. come to be? I came out of the fashion industry, which I was in for about 30 years. I was a buyer for a major chain of department stores out in California—Emporium Capwell, a division of Carter Hawley Hale. I opened an office for 108 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AUGUST 2013

them in New York and I did that for many years until they closed their offices; then I went out into the fashion industry and worked for some great fashion houses. Liz Claiborne was one where I got some terrific training, and it was in that environment where I transitioned

from merchandising into the design world. I then worked for the House of Halston, when Halston was revamping, during the time it was run by Randolph Duke; and I later designed for The Limited.

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hampton scape And then you transitioned into a garden design? I have always been a gardener by passion. I grew up in a family of master gardeners, so I spent most of my childhood in the garden—whether that meant cultivating vegetables with my grandmother or doing the flower beds and planting evergreens with my mother. But I was always involved in the garden; it was something I really loved. About ten years ago I decided that I was going to make a change in my life and move to the Hamptons full time. I moved out here in the spring of 2003 and that fall I started my business. That spring I really went full speed ahead with it.

and I don’t want somebody else installing it and having our name on it in terms of design, but not having it look like our brand in the grand scheme. So it’s always a process? Yes. And then, from there we do maintenance. The gardens and the landscape that we install we’ll also do maintenance on, but that doesn’t mean every client will hire us for maintenance. But I would say most of them do because when the garden goes in, they want to make sure it stays as beautiful as it looks when it goes in; but we are really full

imagine your grandmother’s beautiful home in Southampton might look. Does your fashion background inform your landscape design? Well I think my eye for proportion, color and texture folds into everything we do. I think that’s really where the creative side of my fashion background allows me to see things differently than many people see them. I put textures together—knowing that evergreens, and the leaves of the rhododendron and the texture of a hemlock tree, are magnificent together. The dark green of the

Tell me about some of those earlier projects. One was for a woman who is still a client of mine today. She has a beautiful, beautiful estate in Georgica, East Hampton. She commissioned me to install about 85 container plantings, and to create those container plantings within her landscape. At the time it was me and one helper—it took us some time to do 85 container plantings, but she was so thrilled to be a part of the project! She loved what we were doing, and today we still do all of her container plantings Do you offer services beyond landscaping? Not really, no. We are so busy with the landscape aspect of what we do, and we are a boutique business, so I try to keep as focused as I can. It’s very personal; it’s very hands on; it’s very client friendly. And I think that being able to do that means you have a limited number of staff members, to be able to keep a very personal feeling. Every client that I work with really “gets” me. I have two assistants in the office: a creative right-hand person and more of an administrative right-hand person—this allows me to really still stay completely in touch with all of my clients. I attend every design meeting. If we are in the midst of a project, I’m on the phone with that client every day. I want to run the business that way. Do you do design and maintenance? We won’t do a design for a client unless they also hire us to do the installation with our own crew. We do all of our own installations because that’s the brand. I don’t want anybody installing a design of ours because, when we install it, we might have a design on paper, but when we begin installing the project, things might shift. It’s my eye that sees it shift, 110 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AUGUST 2013

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pledged, from design to installation to final maintenance of the project. Can you tell me about any one of the four projects that you’re installing right now? We actually just completed one that is our first historic home, and it’s been really wonderful to work on. It’s a historic home in Southampton—it involved a lot of approvals from the historic boards. It also was an interesting project because we really needed to work and have our design look as a historic home should look. So the gardens were done a little bit differently than we would do. We put in a beautiful cutting garden with a lovely bench: kind of the way that you would

rhododendron and the medium green of the hemlock are such a beautiful contrast to one another in terms of the relationship of greens in the landscape. I do see things differently. Growing up in the fashion world and understanding the use of color and how you put colors together was key—because we do a lot of color, and people love the colors that we put together. I think that’s just my experience, from when I used to develop fabrics. [As a fashion designer] I developed prints, I developed fabrications, textures, weaves; so all of that experience certainly helps. But fashion was more limiting. And now I feel that I’m getting to expand on it through nature. It’s really neat! ✦

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Like Father, Like Son

In real estate, as in life, leading by example is sometimes the best way. Tim Davis shows his son Jonathan the ropes in the challenging world of East End real estate. How many years have you been in real estate Tim? I am a career Hamptons real estate broker, licensed for over 32 years. I was a principal of Allan Schneider Real Estate for 15 years before selling the company with my two partners to NRT/Corcoran seven years ago. Since then, I have continued to be one of the top agents in the market and Corcoran with last year’s sales totaling over $220 million. You are one of the leading brokers on the East End. What’s the secret to your success? I love the connection to people and being able to give sound advice to countless buyers and sellers to help them see the value of the real estate they’re buying. One client recently referred to me as the “house whisperer.” Jonathan, was it always your desire to go into real estate? I remember telling everybody in middle school I was going to be a real estate agent, just like my dad; as I got older, that became more of a reality as did my dad expressing interest in my joining him. Tim, did you think your son would follow in your footsteps? Are you happy he did? I have three boys and have encouraged each of them to be their own person, and to see beyond the Hamptons, to seek out other vocations and interests. I thought Jonathan might gravitate to sales, since he has a great personality and connects well with people. Of course I’m pleasantly surprised that he decided to start his career in real estate and I love the time we spend together to expand the Tim Davis brand. Jonathan, what attracted you to the business? My dad always worked hard and would share his success with his family. We were able to go on wonderful vacations and to experience a life that many aren’t able to. Eventually, I knew I’d want to maintain the same way of life. I bet your dad was a great role model. What is it like watching him in action? Working together has been a great joy for me. He’s advised me to follow three rules for success: Work hard; know your inventory; and always be honest. My dad has also said it’s not about the sale right now; it’s about the sale 10 years from now. It’s how he’s stayed in business for so long, with great integrity as well as going the extra mile for his clients. It has paid off. Jonathan, when did you start in real estate? I got my license in October of 2012 and started officially working for Corcoran November 1, 2012.

What are some of the highlights so far? The first house I assisted my dad with was an open house for the Forstmann Estate on Meadow Lane. It’s like nothing I’d ever seen before, sited on five acres of shimmering dunes and white sandy beach with beautiful interiors. Being able to see properties like this is truly an incredible experience. Jonathan, how do you feel this market differentiates itself from others, from other resort areas? The Hamptons market is completely different than any other. It’s mainly a second home market with extremely private and wealthy clients who require discretion. My dad’s clients work with him because they know they’ll receive great service as well as confidentiality. What are the strengths you both bring to your profession? Jonathan: I think I bring a youthful energy with new ideas and perspectives. Tim: Jonathan’s energy and enthusiasm has been electric and he’s helped me think of my business and “brand” in a young, new and fresh way. Once he gains more knowledge and experience, I see the commitment to my clients will broaden even further. What do you both see for the future? Jonathan: With my energy and young spirit, and my dad’s experience and knowledge, the possibilities are endless. Tim: I couldn’t agree more . . . ✦

THE CORCORAN GROUP 88 Main Street ◆ Southampton, NY 11968 ◆ 631.283.7300 x211 ◆ tgdavis@corcoran.com 114 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

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Meadow Lane oceanfront Southampton. An exceptional opportunity to own this original Norman Jaffe contemporary home with sensational ocean views in a premier location is yours today for the first time. High quality materials were used in the construction of this sound and sturdy “beach house” including California redwood, Westchester granite stone, white oak and walls of glass. Secure steel bulkheaded frontage of nearly 200’ and 2.3+ acres of seaside landscape affords unique and valuable expansion possibilities. Triple A location and precious sandy beachfront known as “one of the best beaches in the world”. Co-Exclusive. Price upon request weB# 18846

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Wealth Across Generations Among Manhattan’s sea of wealth advisory firms, Hillview Capital Advisors stands out as a pioneer for the conflict-free, personalized investment advice it offers to multi-generational families David Spungen, Hillview’s founder and CEO, and Jonathan Hochberg, President

hile investment is the most talked about aspect of wealth management, it is only a piece of the puzzle, and in Hillview parlance, just one of three critical pillars of comprehensive wealth planning. The others—wealth transfer planning and family philanthropy—are equally important for maintaining family wealth and unity down through the generations. “We couldn’t imagine investing a client’s money, often accumulated over many decades, without considering their family’s longer-term goals and aspirations,” says Jonathan Hochberg, Hillview’s president. “In fact, by nurturing personal conversations about our clients’ hopes for their children and the communities they care about, we come away with a much sharper view on the investment strategies they should pursue. “What we uncover about our clients, from planning within one pillar, informs the execution of wealth plans in the other two. Ultimately, what results is one comprehensive plan, with each pillar doing its part to ‘hold up’ the entire family ﬁnancial structure.” One aspect of wealth that has become increasingly prominent among wealthy families in the past decade is philanthropy. Many families of means are drawn naturally to this “pillar” through a genuine altruism and a desire to give back to the communities that helped them build their wealth. This draw of philanthropic giving also springs from enlightened self-interest. Self-interest? Yes, because all wealth creators must one day face the decision about how they will allocate their wealth in a way that is consistent with their values and desired legacy. As such, philanthropic giving emanates logically out of planning for how much will go to the government, to the children (an issue frequently fraught with challenges), or to a favorite charity. Once trusts are set up for the children, charitable giving often becomes the next most preferred option. “There is simply no better use of wealth that brings a family closer than practicing philanthropy together,” says Glen Macdonald, Senior Vice President at Hillview Capital. “Philanthropy is often the most powerful common bond across multiple generations. But giving in a meaningful way and with impact requires as much planning and vigilance over execution as a family’s investment plan.”

Philanthropic planning is one distinguishing aspect of Hillview Capital. Another is its client-centric service model, which dates back to its roots, a quarter of a century ago. While client focus enters into the conversations of most boutique wealth advisory firms, Hillview has gone a step further, embedding “client-centricity” deep within the very fabric of its firm governance, management practices and compensation structures. In building customized client portfolios, Hillview leverages an open architecture platform that affords it access to a full breadth of investment options across various asset classes. No proprietary funds or third-party distribution arrangements interfere. “We get paid one way and that is by our clients,” says David Spungen, Hillview’s founder and CEO. In fact, Spungen says, “Hillview was founded with the conviction that truly objective advice has to be conflict-free.” “We believe it is impossible to stay objective if you have your own proprietary funds to peddle or are paid commissions by a thirdparty provider of financial products,” the CEO explains. “For us, you can’t operate on both sides of the table, and we have chosen from the beginning, and remain today, on one side: that of our clients.” Last, but certainly not least, is the fact that everyone at Hillview is hyper-focused on managing risks to their clients’ wealth. The firm has built its own internal research team, which employs a disciplined process to make investment allocation decisions; conducts some 500 individual fund-manager meetings annually; and monitors market movements daily. Most boutique investment shops outsource market research and investment allocation decisions. “Not us,” says Spungen emphatically. “We hold ourselves fully accountable for managing the investment risks of our clients and for preserving and growing their wealth. We want to kick the tires ourselves.” And “kick” hard they do, at Hillview. As Hochberg, the firm’s president, sums it up: “When you have a client-centered culture, there is simply no other approach that is acceptable to us, and no other way for us to do business.” ✦

HILLVIEW CAPITAL ADVISORS, LLC. 777 Third Avenue ◆ 28th Floor ◆ New York, NY 10017 ◆ 212.661.9750 ◆ www.hillviewcap.com

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Feel Good About Yourself The doctors at 5th Avenue Millennium Aesthetic Surgery have the perfect formula for achieving outstanding plastic surgery results

s top plastic surgeons in New York City, Doctors Maman, Vickery, and Keegan offer a full spectrum of surgical and nonsurgical procedures at their state-of-the-art operating facility on the Upper East Side. “Our philosophy at 5th Avenue Millennium Aesthetic Surgery is that you should feel good about yourself, and your perception of how you look plays an important role,” says Dr. Vickery. “Our patients are active and involved,” adds Dr. Keegan, “We will help you choose from an array of surgical and non surgical procedures that will deliver the desired result.“ The doctors at 5th Avenue Millennium Aesthetic Surgery provide a variety of surgical and non-surgical procedures, tailored for each individual. This includes both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the face and body. Among their more commonly performed procedures are breast reconstruction surgery after mastectomy, body contouring procedures such as liposuction, breast augmentation, breast reduction, tummy tuck and Mommy Makeover, as well as facial cosmetic surgery such as facelift or eyelid rejuvenation. The doctors maintain a steadfast dedication to listening to the needs of their patients, and their collaborative approach ensures that patients are able to return quickly to their busy lives, feeling relaxed and rejuvenated. At their 5th Avenue facility, they offer an extensive list of non-surgical procedures from Botox, microdermabrasion, and dermal fillers, to the latest in non-invasive fat reduction procedures; CoolSculpting by Zeltiq™. As surgeons with extensive experience with minimally-invasive procedures, they can offer patients a greater spectrum of treatment options. ✦

Doctors Daniel Maman, carlin vickery and leo Keegan maintain an office-based surgical facility, privately located on Fifth Avenue at 94th street.

The Surgical Team Dr. Keegan – After obtaining his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Leo Keegan, M.D. co-founded 5th Avenue Millennium Aesthetic Surgery. Dr. Keegan has extensive experience with a wide variety of cosmetic and reconstructive techniques. He is renowned for his work in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, tummy tuck and liposuction as well as facial cosmetic surgery. Dr. Keegan is highly sought after for both his technical skills and his dedication and commitment to his patients. Dr. vickery – One of the first women to achieve success as a general surgeon and one of the top plastic surgeons in New York City, Dr. Carlin Vickery earned her M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine and is one of a select group of plastic surgeons in New York City with board certifications in general surgery and plastic surgery, and a specialization in microsurgery. Dr. Maman – A Harvard fellowship-trained cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr. Daniel Maman’s specialization and clinical expertise include cosmetic surgery of the breast, body and face, reconstructive breast surgery after breast cancer, microsurgery, and peripheral nerve/migraine surgery. Dr. Maman is an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

5th Avenue MillenniuM Aesthetic surgery “With trusted experience comes a long-standing dedication to listening to the needs of patients. Our caring staff combined with our collaborative approach between patient and doctor ensures that our patients are able to return quickly to their busy lives, looking relaxed, rejuvenated and feeling good about how they look.”

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Expect Expertise precise valuation. Deep market knowledge. Exceptional service.

WatER mILL EXCUsIVE. $14,950,000. WEB: 0056229 southampton Brokerage,Deborah srb, senior Global Real Estate advisor, associate Broker, 631.227.4926

East hampton EXCLUsIVE. $13,200,000. WEB: 0036265 Bridgehampton Brokerage, Beate V. moore, senior Global Real Estate advisor, Licensed salesperson, 631.613.7316

BRIDGEhampton EXCLUsIVE. $11,995,000. WEB: 0037108 Bridgehampton Brokerage, Beate V. moore, senior Global Real Estate advisor, Licensed salesperson, 631.613.7316

saGaponaCK EXCLUsIVE. $9,850,000. WEB: 0045926 201hedges.com East hampton Brokerage, Rylan Jacka, senior Global Real Estate advisor, associate Broker, 631.907.8475

soUthampton Co-EXCLUsIVE. $9,750,000. WEB: 0056004 southampton Brokerage, Lawrence G. Ingolia, associate Broker, 631.227.4931

saG haRBoR EXCLUsIVE. $5,500,000. WEB: 0045378 25peconicave.com East hampton Brokerage, Rylan Jacka, senior Global Real Estate advisor, associate Broker, 631.907.8475

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toWEr suitE at thE Mark | $18,900,000 10 rm, 5 br, 5 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0018823 S. boardman, 212.606.7611 | m. bazo, 212.606.7647

857 FiFth avEnuE | $13,500,000 9 rm, 4 br, 5 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0018727 Louise beit | 212.606.7703

930 Park avEnuE | $9,950,000 9 rm, 4 br, 3 ba | Web Id: 0018881 S. Ellis, 212.606.7691 | p. Wheatley, 212.606.7613

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8 union sq south Ph | $8,400,000 7 rm, 3 br, 3 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0018890 kevin b. brown | 212.606.7748

181 East 65th strEEt | $6,850,000 8 rm, 3 br, 3 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0018983 Leslie S. modell | 212.606.7668

LoFt in LinCoLn CEntEr | $6,295,000 6 rm, 3 br, 3 ba | Web Id: 0018925 harry nasser | 212.400.8724

220 rivErsidE BouLEvard | $5,750,000 6 rm, 4 br, 5 ba | Web Id: 0018740 L. maysonet, 212.606.7603 | g. kabol, 212.606.7606

188 East 76th strEEt, 14C | $2,850,000 4 rm, 2 br, 2 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0019003 m. perceval,212.606.7790 | J. S. Skiff, 212.606.7794

205 WEst 76th strEEt | $2,495,000 4 rm, 2 br, 2 ba | Web Id: 0018993 J. S. Skiff, 212.606.7794 | m. perceval,212.606.7790

121 East 23rd strEEt | $2,285,000 5 rm, 3 br, 3 ba | Web Id: 0018999 Stanley ponte | 212.606.4109

155 WEst 68th strEEt | $2,195,000 5 rm, 2 br, 2 ba, 1 hlf ba | Web Id: 0018458 michele Llewelyn | 212.606.7716

38 East 85th strEEt | $2,195,000 5 rm, 2 br, 2 ba | Web Id: 0018945 L. maysonet, 212.606.7603 | g. kabol, 212.606.7606

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PRESTIGIOuS GEORGICA POND WATERFRONT PARCEL, EAST HAMPTON Undoubtedly one of the most exquisite and prestigious locations in all the Hampton’s. Build you’re your dream home on this substantial 3.62 acre waterfront parcel in the East Hampton Estate Section with stunning 180 degree panoramic views of Georgica Pond, Georgica Beach and the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. EXCLUSIVE. $18,500,000. WEB: 0056243

CHRISTINA M. GALESI Senior Global Real Estate Advisor, Licensed Salesperson Christina Galesi, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor and Licensed Salesperson has been with Sotheby’s International Realty since 1999. Among the 46,000 sales associates across all NRT brands, including Sotheby’s International Realty, Corcoran, Coldwell Banker, ERA and Century 21, Christina Galesi ranks among the top 2% of the company’s entire sales force. With well over $230 million in sales, Christina focuses on selling high-end properties and has a history of negotiating record-breaking waterfront sales. Examples include prestigious Southampton waterfront properties with prices ranging from $18 million to $29.9 million. Having not only sold a stunning Sagaponack property with the last asking price of $14,900,000, and a celebrity home asking $9,995,000, she has just sold and has in contract over $55,000,000 in properties over the last nine months. Some of these properties include a Sagaponack waterfront asking $19,995,000, the prestigious John Randolph Hearst Jr. Estate asking $8,500,000 and the Estate of Arthur O. Sulzberger asking $11,950,000.

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EDGE OF WOODS FARM, WATER MILL Rare to the market. 40+/- acres of open fields with potential to subdivide, currently zoned CR-80/2 acre zoning to create the property of your dreams. Privacy, exclusivity, forever sunset meadow views. Features a 7 bedroom, 5 bath tastefully decorated traditional home. Minutes to the beaches and villages. EXCLUSIVE. $12,500,000. WEB: 0055899 Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc.

A Family Affair Profiling some of the most successful family businesses

A FAMILY Affair

Susan and Matt Breitenbach

The Corcoran Group Licensed Associate Real Estate Brokers

THE CORCORAN GROUP 1936 Montauk Highway Bridgehampton, NY 11932 M: 631.875.6000 (Susan) 631.255.6221 (Matt) E: smb@corcoran.com (Susan), mbreitenbach@corcoran.com (Matt) W: BreitenbachRealEstate.com

TELL US ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF YOUR BUSINESS/PARTNERSHIP—WHO STARTED IT AND WHEN? Matt: I came into the real estate business in 2006 and joined Susan, who had been an agent for 15 years before that. I grew up in and around the business. My mom took me on showings as a 12 year old boy and I used to live for running around construction sites with my father as a child. I always felt a calling towards real estate. At 22 years old and right out of college, I sat down with Susan and discussed working with her. She was very receptive. I started out as her assistant and evolved with Susan to create a unique business that averages over $250 milion a year in sales. When we are in the ofﬁce it’s strictly business; at the end of the day she is still my mom. HOW DO YOU COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER? Susan: It is a great combination; I have 23 years of experience and knowledge and a great contacts list, which is wonderful on its own, but Matt has brought a new energy and enthusiasm and all the cutting-edge technology and marketing of his generation, from YouTube to Twitter, etc. Together we work incredibly well and can tackle any challenge. We both work 24/7, and there is always coverage, and our clients and customers feel they are getting the best of both [of our services]. We had a fantastic relationship before and are even closer now. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE PEOPLE CONSIDERING GOING INTO BUSINESS WITH A FAMILY MEMBER? Matt: You need to keep the roles separate. When Susan and I are at the ofﬁce, on listing pitches or doing anything real

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estate related, she is Susan, my associate. When we are together with the family at a beach BBQ or holiday dinner, she is my mom. It’s important to keep the family roles and business roles separate. They are different, and both are important. If they start mixing, you can get into trouble. ANYTHING NEW AND EXCITING TO SHARE WITH US? Susan: Yes, I am very proud to say I was just ranked this week by the Wall Street Journal as the # 12 Broker Nationwide for Sales Volume and #1 in the Hamptons for the second year in a row! Matt and I have made a lot of changes in our business over the last two years, including hiring our own PR firm, Design Firm; another assistant; and re-doing our own website; and we are excited about doing a brand new interactive brochure for our exclusive listings. We use all the tools, website and networking of a large company like Corcoran and all that a smaller boutique firm has to offer, and we are happy to say it is working great! DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW UNIQUE OR EXCLUSIVE LISTINGS? Susan: We just listed a 17-acre compound that is absolutely incredible. The property is on Ocean Road and has two 2.1-acre lots that feature a stunning, 7,000 square-foot custom-built home with two very special outbuildings, a tennis court, putting green and a 13-acre agricultural reserve with permits for a horse farm, vineyard, orchids [greenhouse] or tree farm. We also have two great oceanfront listings: a brand new 9,500-square-foot home, and a nearly 4-acre compound complete with a beach cottage and traditional home, featuring a flush-edge pool and sunken tennis court. Plus, it has an amazing zen feel—it’s nicer than any five-star resort!

17+ Acre estAte compound on oceAn roAd Bridgehampton. A very special offering, this south of the Highway Ocean Road compound defines luxury and uncompromising quality with attention to the smallest of details. The compound expands over 17.5 acres and includes 2 single and separate building lots that are approximately 2 acres each plus an abutting 13.4 acre tree farm agricultural reserve. Built by premier Hamptons contractor Breitenbach Builders, with elegant interiors by renowned London-based design firm Collett Zarzycki, Ltd and breathtaking gardens and extensive landscaping by award winning Landscape Architect Edmund Hollander Design. This shingle styled traditional home has an amazing flow for entertaining with a massive master suites, a gourmet kitchen, great room and finished lower level. Outdoor entertaining doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any better with covered porches, a loggia with fireplace, pool house with a glass wall system that opens out onto an oversized pool, an incredible outdoor kitchen and spa, all with an in-deck flagstone cooling system. An elegant club house with a wall of disappearing glass that opens onto a large, immaculate putting green and a professional Har-Tru tennis court. The additional 2.1 acre building lot has drawings and preliminary renderings in place by world renowned architect Shope Reno Warton for a magnificent 14,600 SF+/- home. The 13.4 acre reserve includes permits for a horse farm but could be used for vineyards, orchards, wildflowers or any other agricultural use. Visit www.breitenbachrealestate.com for more information. $29.995M weB# 11114

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Deborah S. Sarnoff & Robert H. Gotkin Board-Certified Dermatologist & Plastic Surgeon Cosmetique Dermatology, Laser & Plastic Surgery, LLP Deborah S. Sarnoff, M.D., F.A.A.D., F.A.C.P. Robert H. Gotkin, M.D., F.A.C.S.

“Our ultimate goal is to make our patients happy. Nothing brings us more joy!”

COSMETIQUE DERMATOLOGY, LASER & PLASTIC SURGERY, LLP 625 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 212.794.4000 www.cosmetiqueMD.com

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TELL US ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF YOUR BUSINESS/PARTNERSHIP. We met on the very first day of internship. We were arbitrarily assigned to be partners in a CPR class resuscitating the same mannequin and hit it off immediately! We were on call together, ate together and were up all night working on patients together. After six months, we realized there was great chemistry between us and that we were more than just friends—we had something very special. Working together was something we had dreamed about for years before it actually happened. Both sets of our parents had always worked together—we figured it would only be natural that we’d work together too, and over 25 years later. . . the best is yet to come! HOW DO YOU COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER? When our patients come to see us, they inevitably say “I look tired,” or “I look old,” or “I see my mother when I look in the mirror—what can I do?” Together, we cover the entire realm of nonsurgical and surgical cosmetic treatments and procedures, including chemical peels, lasers, injectables [Botox® and fillers] and surgery. We customize a treatment plan for each patient and tailor it to their budget and downtime. HOW DO YOUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS BENEFIT YOUR CLIENTELE? Our blended expertise provides value to our patients. When we look at a face or a body, we instantly know whether a nonsurgical treatment will make a patient look younger, thinner, or more refreshed, or if a surgical procedure will be more beneficial. We love helping people improve their appearance and are fascinated by faces and bodies and ways to improve them: contouring, rebalancing, adding volume, restoring symmetry. Our ultimate goal is to make our patients happy. Nothing brings us more joy! ANYTHING NEW AND EXCITING TO SHARE WITH US? Dr. Gotkin: “While teaching my surgical techniques in Brazil, I developed The Ipanema Tummy Tuck™, which has now become my most popular body procedure and part of my Mommy Makeover. I use the Smartlipo® laser to make the traditional tummy tuck safer and more comfortable—with less downtime and incredible results.” Dr. Sarnoff: “AceLift™ is my newest and most sought-after procedure. AceLift stands for the Augmentation of Collagen and Elastin through Lasers, Injectables, Fillers and Topicals. By artistically combining these nonsurgical treatments, it’s truly possible to look up to nine years younger in 90 minutes. My patients call it a new lease on life . . . without going under the knife!”

A FAMILY Affair TELL US THE ORIGINS OF YOUR BUSINESS. Mom started in real estate from her kitchen table in the late 1970s. In 1981, New York magazine profiled her as one of the hottest new brokers. By the mid-‘90s, Dad had retired from running a hugely successful advertising agency called Cavelieri & Kleier, and the two formed the brokerage company Gumley Haft Kleier. Mom ran the brokerage and dad ran the business; we like to call him “The Wizard of Oz”! A few years later, Mom was named one of Manhattan’s top 10 brokers by New York magazine. Sabrina joined the firm in 2002, and Samantha in 2004. In 2012, we changed our name to Kleier Residential to capitalize on our family brand. Today our company is one of the most well-known, successful boutique brokerages in a very competitive industry in the most dynamic city in the world. ANY STORY BEHIND HOW IT WAS STARTED, AND WHY? Mom was always at the playground with Samantha, picking up clients and referring them to Phyliss Koch, the woman she bought her apartment from. After the 20th “thank-you” present Phyliss gave my mom [for referring clients], she finally said, “Michele, why don’t you get your real estate license and come work for me? I have run out of thank-yous!” The rest is history. WHAT DID EACH OF YOU DO PRIOR? Mom was named Social Worker of the Year by New York City. Dad owned an advertising agency. Samantha was the youngest vice president ever at the entertainment public relations firm Susan Blond, Inc. And Sabrina was the youngest producer ever at NBC’s Access Hollywood. We all had successful careers before entering real estate.

Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern, Michele Kleier, Ian Kleier, Samantha Kleier-Forbes HOW DO YOUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS BENEFIT YOUR CLIENTS? We all work together as a team, so a client usually gets “4 for 1.” And we can always reach the boss, no matter what the hour! In fact, many of our clients call us “Kleier in stereo.” SHARE WITH US ANY FUNNY STORIES OR FAVORITE MOMENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED. Our favorite moment was being chosen to star in what would become one of HGTV’s highestrated shows: Selling New York. The show has been unbelievable for business, and so much fun to shoot! It has been like filming the ultimate home video! At the moment, ABC Family has optioned our novel, Hot Property, for a potential TV series based on our lives. How much fun is that?! WILL ANY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS BE JOINING YOU PROFESSIONALLY, IN THE FUTURE? Samantha’s 7-year-old son Chase is sure to join us next. He is a connoisseur of StreetEasy, has drawn floor plans of all the Kleier family homes (as well as our office), and his favorite activity is coming to the office and tracking down listings. He already has his own business cards, and his title is, naturally, “president in training”!

Kleier Residential

“Today our company is one of the most well-known, successful boutique brokerages in a very competitive industry in the most dynamic city in the world.”

KLEIER RESIDENTIAL 415 Madison Avenue NY, NY 10017 O: 212.371.2525 W: www.kleiers.com

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We define our neighborhoods as much as they define us.

730 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212.242.9900

110 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 212.633.1000

26 Astor Place New York, NY 10003 212.584.6100

530 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 212.557.5300

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45 Horatio Street New York, NY 10014 212.604.0300

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Properties of the Month A selection of deluxe residences

The Corcoran Group

466 Further Lane, East Hampton Set on well over 2 acres on the famous Further Lane, the entire compound is impeccably designed and includes a main house, cottage, pool house, detached 3-car garage, separate gym, apple orchard, stone paths, and gardens. The compound as a whole is a testament to high-end design, fashion and art. Co-Exclusive. $24.5M. WEB#43831. Contact Susan Breitenbach at 631.875.6000

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Bishops Pond Southampton Village

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New construction, open floor plan, 10 ft ceilings, oak floors and the latest home technology awaits at this 5-bedroom, 5-bath Traditional. Every amenity is here. First floor offers an expansive open family room, gourmet kitchen with a wood burning fireplace, dining terrace overlooking the gardens and French doors which lead to a covered porch with fireplace and Lynx grille. The master suite has a second floor terrace and a marble bathroom with whirlpool tubs and radiant floors. Wine room, room for gym or theater on finished lower level. $4,395,000. Web# H18140. Contact Carol Nobbs at 631.204.2714

Bishops Pond, the most sought after new neighborhood in the Hamptons, offers extraordinary new villas and townhomes featuring state-of-the-art amenities and five-star concierge services. It boasts a pond-side pool, clubhouse, fitness center and tennis court plus Hampton-style open, airy model homes designed by Mabley Handler. It is the vision of Long Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top builder, The Beechwood Organization, and the culmination of 30+ years of craftsmanship by founder Michael Dubb, who with son, Steven Dubb, and development partner George Benedict, present the crown jewel of their Premier Portfolio. Contact The Beechwood Organization Sales Office at 631.283.2077

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CPS. Unique opportunity to own a fully furnished triplex penthouse designed by Candy and Candy in The Plaza condo. Sweeping park views, private terrace, 5-star service. $59M. WEB# 8547046. Kyle Blackmon 212-588-5648

UES. Co-Excl. Impeccable full flr on Park Ave in a white glove building. Approx 5000SF. 6.5 baths, separate staff apt. High ceils, large rooms, great light, moldings. $18.9M. WEB# 4015549. Maria Torresy 212-906-9317 Angela N. Holton 212-906-9365

Fifth Avenue. Direct Central Park, NY Harbor and river views from this corner mint 3BR, 4.5 bath with 32 9’ flr-to-ceil windows. Expansive living room, formal dining room, libr. Ample closets. Corp okay. $11.95M. WEB# 4009405. Daniela Rivoir 212-906-9276

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UES. Exquisite 21.5’ wide triple-mint townhouse. Elevator to all floors, 5+ BR, large garden, 12-zone central air conditioning, gym. Elegant and turn-key. $10.995M. WEB# 8553823. Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207

UWS. 1893 townhouse posed for singlefamily conversion with historic details throughout. 20 feet wide, 6 stories, North, South and open West views estimated at over 8,700SF. $7.9M. WEB# 8545053. Julia Hoagland 212-906-9262

UES. Triple mint renov classic 9 room PW sunfilled Co-op w/tree-lined views. 3BR, 4 full renov baths, LR with wbfp, FDR, libr, home office/BR, gourmet kitchen, CAC. $7.35M. WEB# 8554101. Cathy Franklin 212-906-9236 Alexis Bodenheimer 212-906-9230

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UES. Premier sun-flooded Park Avenue Co-op, spectacular renov, featured in Architectural Digest, 3BR, 3 baths, living rm w/wbfp, formal dining, libr, WEIK, study. $7M. WEB# 3908381. Cathy Franklin 212-906-9236 Alexis Bodenheimer 212-906-9230

UES. Spacious 2,163SF 3BR, 3 bath with foyer, LR, DR & chef’s quality kit in FSB w/ state-ofart gym, pool, garage, concierge, playroom & tax abatement until 2021. $4.495M. WEB# 8548309. Carol A. Raskin 212-452-6215 Mark P. Raskin 212-452-6214

TriBeCa. Co-Excl. Mint 2BR, 2 bath condo w/ high ceils in new FSB. Open gourmet kit, LR, additional storage, CAC. Open W/E expos over TriBeCa landmarks. $2.5M. WEB# 4004485. Sophie Ravet 212-452-4470 Armin B. Allen 212-396-5851

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real estate Properties of the Month The Corcoran Group

On the Lanes of Amagansett Perfectly maintained, this inviting country retreat combines the various elements of symmetry, space and detail that is the hallmark of fine Hampton design. A pergola covered patio looks out at the 40’ heated gunite pool, serviced by its own bath with sauna, framed by lush lawn and trees on this beautifully landscaped property. Exclusive. $3.95M. WEB# 33853. Contact Gary R. DePersia @ 516.380.0538

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163 East 64th Street This elegant Neo-Georgian-style townhouse, perfectly positioned on one of Manhattan’s most desirable blocks in the fashionable Upper East Side, is the very embodiment of refinement and style. Originally constructed in 1872 in the Italianate style by the renown Nineteenth Century “Gold Coast” architect, John G. Prague, over a century later, this spectacular edifice has been architecturally reinvented, refurbished, and technologically transformed into a magnificent Twenty-First Century residence. $27.5M.  Contact Michelle Evi Bourgeois at 646.998.7465 or Judi Lederer at 646.738.6942

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Sotheby’s International Realty

metropolitan tower penthouse The top two floors of Metropolitan Tower now features an all-new design, with internationally acclaimed Bungalow5 furnishings. This extraordinary 3,815+/-square foot duplex features soaring 12-foot ceilings in the master suite. It is perched above Manhattan with unparalleled views of Central Park, the New York City skyline and the Hudson River. The gracious foyer opens to the oversize corner living room, which is lined with wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling windows, and features 50 feet of park views. A beautifully crafted, curved staircase leads to the living quarters on the top floor of Metropolitan Tower. Contact Senior Global Real Estate Advisors, Associate Brokers Kevin B. Brown at 212.606.7748 or Nikki Field at 212.606.7669

the eStAte At pointe mecox â&#x20AC;˘ bridgehAmpton SoUth Exclusive. This exquisite Mediterranean-inspired 5 bedroom, 6 bath gated waterfront estate on 1Âą acre offers expansive bay and ocean views. Waterside heated gunite pool, elegant gardens, multiple terraces and covered verandas. Custom details include Venetian plaster walls and ceilings, custom Murano glass chandeliers and fixtures, terra cotta roof tiles, Botticino marble, and intricate iron work. $19,995,000. WEB# 27389. Mary Ann Cinelli 631.537.4347; mcinelli@bhshamptons.com

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Risk/Reward Meet Robert A. Kanter, a highly successful trader, risk manager and the principal of Wainscott Advisors

What is unique about your firm and what distinguishes you from others in your field? Wainscott Advisors is a one-man firm, except for computer and clerical staff. All advice is individualized, explained on a one-to-one basis and paid for by the hour. What experience do you bring to the table? I have over 50 years of trading and risk management experience as an on-floor specialist broker in securities [L.W. Herman and Co.], managing partner of a stock and options trading firm [ARBCO], president of a specialist firm [Kanter, Blau and Woods] and the founder, CEO and risk manager of ETG [Electronic Trading Group], a brokerdealer with over 300 customers and traders. What is your investment philosophy? First, determine your risk tolerance and reward objectives within the framework of your financial circumstances. Second, make a judgment call as to the direction of the markets you plan to invest in, with consideration of world economic conditions as they presently exist, and how they may exist in the future. Third, research the available vehicles in which to participate. Last, construct a portfolio and analyze it with respect to liquidity, volatility and, in each respect, how a particular position might fare in the portfolio as a whole. Can you share anything newsworthy about yourself professionally? I was the subject of a Barron’s feature article. I was the founder and initial president of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange Market Maker Association and was on the Exchange’s board of directors and executive committee, which affected the first legislation against front running. In 1987 I was asked by Senator William Proxmire’s Senate Banking Committee to head a hearing on market manipulation. Professionally, however, I am most proud of the fact that I have never had a losing year. What are people asking for these days? People want and need higher yields—however, they make the mistake of not analyzing other factors such as liquidity, interest rates and the credit risk of those higher yields. I must continually explain the concept of total return. Most investors are more interested in dividend yield or their rate of interest, without proper assessment of potential appreciation or depreciation of the instrument. Unrealized profit or loss, combined with dividends or interest, determines the total return—which is what matters most.

What are the most important things one should consider when contemplating any investment? Within the context of one’s entire portfolio, what is your expectation of gain versus loss and the probability thereof? When you factor the expected gain by the probability of that gain, the result should be at least one-and-one-half times the amount you are willing to lose. In the current economy, what’s the best advice you can give your clients? Be careful not to be in “crowded rooms,” i.e., being in an asset class that everyone else is in and believing that you can get out the door first in the event of fire. What is the most exciting part of your job? The most exciting part of my job is knowing when to liquidate a profitable position, and protecting a client from an unnecessary and/ or substantial loss. If you were not an investment advisor, what would you be? And why? A jazz pianist. On my 60th birthday I gave a private concert at Weill Recital Hall. Discovering a great chord is as satisfying as a good trade. ✦

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Modernizing Manhattan Luxury Opening in 2014 in the cultural heart of Manhattan, Baccarat Hotel & Residences reflects the full service lifestyle in every facet of its design

ocated on 53rd Street just off Fifth Avenue and directly across from the Museum of Modern Art, Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, literally glows from the inside out. The striking 50-story glass tower is clad in crystal-inspired patterns of metal and glass, and includes 114 large guest rooms designed by Gilles et Boissier, as well as 61 private residences conceptualized by Tony Ingrao. The residences range from one to four bedrooms and include four full-floor units and one five-bedroom penthouse duplex with an outdoor loggia. Residential owners will have complete access to all luxury hotel amenities and services, including a grand salon overlooking MoMA, a standalone “crystal bar” surrounded by an outdoor Tuileries-style terrace, a full-service spa complete with indoor pool and fitness facility and a new French restaurant. The residences boast a private entrance and refined finishes that combine natural elements with modern concepts, including custom bronze work featuring crystal, contemporary furnishings and floorto-ceiling windows that capture natural light. Every residence will also feature a Baccarat chandelier in the foyer, reinforcing Baccarat’s reputation for creating exquisite pieces of art. Offering a spectacular 7,381 square feet of interior space and 360-degree city views, the penthouse at Baccarat Hotel & Residences is a spectacle of perfection. With 14-foot ceilings on both floors and 1,240 square feet of entertaining space, the penthouse offers 32 linear feet of glass wall showcasing impressive views of Central Park. A longtime admirer of the Baccarat brand and self-proclaimed Francophile, Tony Ingrao was a natural choice for the residences project. His impressive custom-designed staircase with open Lido marble treads and glass railing provides a dramatic entry to the

second floor. The penthouse, like all residences, also includes Crestron touch screens, offering the ability to control virtually every aspect of the residential environment: lighting, shades and climate, as well as audio and visual equipment. All are accessible via tablets or other mobile devices, allowing residents to set the temperature to their liking while on their next flight in from France. ✦

ORIGINALLY CREATED BY decree from King Louis XV, since 1764 Baccarat has been renowned for its unmatched craftsmanship, innovation and stunning design. The company still manufactures its products in the picturesque town of Baccarat in the AlsaceLorraine region of France, where only absolutely perfect crystal creations may bear the Baccarat name. Marking the French crystal maker’s 250th anniversary when it opens next year, the same will be true at Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York, which will embody perfection in every facet of service and design.

Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York is a joint venture between Starwood Capital Group and Tribeca Associates. The Baccarat brand also recently opened its global flagship store on June 5, 2013, located at 635 Madison Avenue.

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A Different Concept Prince of Scots is an East End haven for modern luxury

n a well-traveled stretch of Montauk Highway in Water Mill, directly opposite of that village green and its iconic windmill, sits a quaint white structure with a beckoning garden. Two and a half years ago, Scottish transplant Tim Danser saw an opportunity to turn this picturesque property into a highly curated shopping experience that

it was a lifestyle decision for Danser. “We decided we wanted out of the city and to lead a simpler life,” says Danser. “We love the amazing variety of truly interesting people in the Hamptons.” And in a case of art imitating life (shopping is an art!), Prince of Scots provides a variety of interesting merchandise to match the variety of customers to whom it caters. “Many of

Our reward is hearing we are the topic of party conversation and knowing the positive impressions we have made on the community. stands out from those that already existed on the East End. Prince of Scots is a concept store—with many exclusive or limited edition products— like none other in the Hamptons. “We wanted to make shopping fun again,” says owner Danser. “We support new designers and brands. Through this process, we began working with Scottish government agencies and trade associations to bring a modern Scotland to the states. We have had great fun sharing the stories and dreams of the next generation of Scottish designers.” Choosing the Hamptons over a city location was really as much a business decision as

the products are exclusive to Prince of Scots, or a very limited distribution,” says Danser. “When customers walk in, they fall in love with all the special details of the shop—the color choices, the fixtures, arrangements, and our adaptation within the space. We had a young girl, about 10, shopping with her mother and she whispered to her, ‘This place reminds me of a modern Audrey Hepburn.’ Her mother asked if that was a good compliment and we explained it most certainly was, and that it was a true testament to her daughter’s natural good taste that she knew Audrey Hepburn!” And in the height of the East End social season, look no further than Prince of Scots

for the perfect local gifts. “We pride ourselves in the art of giving,” says Danser. “We look for items that raise the bar, for both the giver and receiver. While our product collection is diverse, the common thread is that each item brings joy. Our reward is hearing we are the topic of party conversation and knowing the positive impressions we have made on the community.” As for Danser’s personal favorites of the season—it’s like asking him to pick a favorite child—he has a particular affinity for ETRO’s paisley lucite party trays for a poolside gathering and the brightly colored terry cloth robes. ✦

Prince of ScotS 700 Montauk Highway ◆ P.O. Box 871 ◆ Water Mill, NY 11976 ◆ 631.604.1392 ◆ e: Style@princeofscots.com ◆ W: www.princeofscots.com

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WATER MILL SOUTH COMPOUND WITH TENNIS AND POOL Water Mill | $8,250,000 | Sited behind electric gates is this 8-bedroom, 8.5-bath, state-of-the-art home which has an outdoor loggia with fireplace, heated oversized Gunite pool with Jacuzzi, all weather tennis court, and a finished lower level. The landscaping is mature with large trees and colorful plantings. Decorated in a true Hamptonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; style, this compound is absolutely magnificent. Call for details and to view. Web# H41544.

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE NEW CONSTRUCTION Southampton | $4,395,000 | Open floor plan, 10 ft ceilings, oak floors and the latest home technology awaits at this 5-bedroom, 5-bath Traditional. Every amenity is here. First floor offers an expansive open family room, gourmet kitchen with a wood burning fireplace, dining terrace overlooking the gardens and French doors which lead to a covered porch with fireplace and Lynx grille. The master suite has a second floor terrace and a marble bathroom with whirlpool tubs and radiant floors. Wine room, room for gym or theater on finished lower level. Web# H18140.

CAROL NOBBS 631.204.2714 Cnobbs@elliman.com

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Hair Bent on Perfection

LINDA CoVELLo

What is the biggest challenge you’ve overcome? Changing people’s perceptions about hair extensions and additions. I’ve always championed them as fantastic options, but it took a while before they gained total acceptance in the beauty industry. Now, everyone wants them because statistics show that 40 million women in the U.S. will experience some form of thinning hair or hair loss. What I offer is a noninvasive solution that will not only make women feel beautiful again, but also give them back the youthful, feminine or stylish look they want. Why do you think your salon has a reputation for the best hair extensions in Manhattan? I always approached what I do as “the Vera Wang of hair extensions,” because my focus is on using high-quality products and customizing the perfect hair addition for my clients. Not everyone will respond to one type of extension, so I offer any array of extension types and application methods that will suit an individual’s needs. When a woman wants and needs the best, she seeks out the best, and tells her friends.

Please explain the concept of “couture hair” and “couture hair color.” The driving force behind my couture services lies in the thorough consultation that we offer every prospective client. This complimentary consultation gives us a chance to get to know the client and fully understand her needs. From the information that we gather, we can then decide what type of extension or hair-coloring approach will work for the client, her hair type and hair texture, her desired maintenance and so forth.

Angelo David Piscareta of Angelo David Salon is making waves as the city’s “king of couture hair extensions” What factors do you attribute to your salon’s popularity? My 25 years of experience as a hairstylist has helped me create a salon that truly caters to clients and delivers what they want. I understand how the industry works and have become a leading expert in a highdemand niche: hair extensions. Today, socialites and female business executives are just as likely to be wearing them as celebrities. What sets your salon apart from others? Everything we do is customized for the individual— my salon represents a wide range, from couture fashions to ready-to-wear, except that our focus is hair. I see hair as a tool for changing people’s lives, not just to make you look good or feel beautiful. We all know the strong psychological attachment women have to their hair. I try to find ways to use hair extensions, wigs and other additions to help them look their best, which in turn can boost their confidence. By the way, men are just as hair-attached, and I offer them similar, life-changing solutions.

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Besides hair extensions, what makes your salon successful? You can have amazing products and talent, but the real secret to my success is service, service and service. The best customer service is always in the forefront of everything we do. It is all about being attentive to the client’s needs, while going above and beyond to provide what they want. We offer everything from gourmet coffees to spacious private rooms. For convenience, my Angelo David Hair Care products can be purchased in the salon or online, along with gift certificates. If the client wants it and we don’t have it, we’ll get it. ✦

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ALLISON BARWACZ An influential landscaping business in the Hamptons, Marders is the perfect place to look to for beautifying your beachfront sanctuary. Marders focuses on the importance of implementing organic products while reflecting the tastes and lifestyles of each homeowner, whether those products are outdoor furniture, gardening tools or plants. Garden armchair by Marders, $595. Available at Marders, Bridgehampton, 631.537.3700

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Encapsulating an air of sophistication and vibrancy, Missoni Home brings a unique edge to the everyday home, indoors and out, from its captivating fabrics to home furnishings. Embellishing any home with simple yet tasteful products, Missoni Home offers a colorful style that blends artistically into any existing environment, creating a dynamic and intriguing atmosphere.

Newly relocated in Southampton, Keszler Gallery has been making a splash as a hotspot for art enthusiasts and Hamptonites alike. The gallery offers a spectacular range of artwork for the home, ranging from eccentric sculptures, including whimsical building replicas, to tasteful canvas works and paper prints.

Ormond Pouf by Missoni HoMe, $615. Available at Missoni Home, Southampton, 631.353.3700

Seagram aluminum sculpture by Alexandre Arrechea, $35,000. Available at Keszler Gallery, Southampton, 631.204.0353 Swing into Serena & Lily, which brings a novel outlook to the contented household, stemming from its dedication to fashioning a timeless home, and devotion to improving the community. Serena & Lily creates a lively, spacious atmosphere with its custom upholstery, colorful patterns and irresistibly eccentric décor. Hanging rattan chair, $450, by serena & lily. Available at Serena & Lily, Wainscott, 631.537.5544

With its focus on cultural aesthetics, English Country Antiques brings a piece of England to the Hamptons, offering customers antiques and accessories shipped directly from the royal land. From furniture and wall adornments to sophisticated silverware, English Country Antiques adds a touch of worldly class to any Hamptons home. Ship propeller coffee table, $6,500, by enGlisH Country antiques. Available at English Country Antiques in Bridgehampton, 631.537.0606 146 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

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Glamorous Doings High Society Celebrates Gatsby, Twins, Dogs, Prize4Life & the Hamptons GATSBY’S GOLD COAST Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald were frequent guests at financier Harvey Gibson’s glorious estate, Lands End Manor, in Locust Valley, in the 1920s. This Georgian masterpiece, built in the 1800s, was a source of inspiration for the mansion of Daisy Buchanan, the blueblooded debutante whom the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby fell tragically in love with in The Great Gatsby. Muffie Potter Aston and Dr. Sherrell Aston, the renowned plastic surgeon, are now the responsible stewards and owners of this historic property. Back in the ’20s, Gibson, a legendary financier who founded the bank that became Manufacturers Hanover, commuted to Wall Street every day via his boat, which was moored at the end of his dock on Long Island Sound. When you see Baz Luhrmann’s edgy and brilliant interpretation of the book, in the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, you realize the importance of this house, with its green light blinking at the end of the dock, an iconic symbol of the white Anglo-Saxon-Protestant world that so intrigued Fitzgerald. Gibson’s neighbors included Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, J.P. Morgan and John Hay Whitney. The estate also was the setting for the jazz parties the writer attended that influenced his classic American novel. 148 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

LANDS END MANOR Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park, created the prize-winning flower and rose gardens and expansive vistas that sweep down to the water past stately elm and specimen trees at Lands End Manor. This property also boasts its own stables, with impeccable old-school tack rooms outfitted with rows of polo mallets, and greenhouses brimming with exotic blooms. On a recent summer Sunday, the house was filled with laughter for the eighth birthday of the Astons’ twin daughters, Ashleigh and Bracie. Guests included Jill and Andrew Roosevelt, designer Cece Cord, Alexia Hamm Ryan and others whom I swore not to mention. (This crowd is filled with people who only like to see their names in print three times: birth, marriage and death; it’s the only way, really, unless you’re a CEO of Good Works like Muffie, but that’s another story.) On this particular morning, the torrential rains had stopped and the sun provided dappled light through ancient oak trees. Muffie, ever the perfectionist, had the gardeners blow-dry the rain-soaked lawn in time for the afternoon party. With no raindrops to sully these tots’ tootsies or muddy the Manolos of the yummy mummies, the party proceeded. On the great lawn, adjacent to the Creek Club and down the street from Piping

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Jon Heinemann and Nicole Noonan @ Prize4Life

Jill and Andrew Roosevelt @ Astons’ birthday

Jamie Antolini and Nicole Velez @ Jamie’s NYC Opening

Andrea Stark and Judith Murat @ Rose Jewelers

Sharon Bush and Dr. Kenneth Mark @ Judith Murat

Ali MacGraw and Cornelia Guest @ Humane Society of NY

Martin and Audrey Gruss @ Lincoln center

Jean Remmel Little and Sandra McConnell @ Southampton Hospital

“LANDS END MANOR ALSO BOASTS ITS OWN STABLES WITH IMPECCABLE OLD-SCHOOL TACK ROOMS, OUTFITTED WITH ROWS OF POLO MALLETS AND GREENHOUSES BRIMMING WITH EXOTIC BLOOMS.” Rock, the impenetrable country club whose members can only be found in the Blue Book, an authentic country fair was erected. The children admired the llamas, emus and goats, one of which was very pregnant with twins of her own, and on the verge of delivery; luckily there was a doctor in the house. Ashleigh, Bracie and their pals played with the baby rabbits and a variety of hens under the eagle eye of handlers who taught the children the right way to cradle the animals. There were pony rides, a puppet show and a giant trampoline shaped like a sea monster. Everyone was free to explore the house and wander into the gazebos, one of which was created for the New York Flower Show in 1992; it now perches picturesquely on a knoll overlooking the water. Although no one jumped into the oval-shaped swimming pool, everyone gathered under the maple tree to see the twins swing bats at the matching cupcake-shaped piñatas filled with candy. Guests then sang “Happy Birthday” as the two cakes, one chocolate and one vanilla, appeared. Muffie provided baskets so guests could pick and take home vegetables or flowers from the cutting gardens. Some whispered that Sherrell Aston had turned down $100 million for Lands End, but then some will say anything. N’est–ce pas? 150 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

HAMPTONS KICKS OFF On the East End there have been kickoffs galore (and glamorous) for the Southampton Hospital. There was a lunch at Kathy Reilly’s given by De Grisogono and hosted by Jean Shafiroff, who chaired the 55th-Annual Summer Party, which benefits the Audrey and Martin Gruss Heart and Stroke Center and the Jenny and John Paulson Emergency Department. There were three additional fêtes: the first hosted by Barbara and Randall Smith; the second at Sequin, the chic faux jewelers on Jobs Lane; and the third for designer Judith Murat at Rose Jewelers on Main Street, whose sale of serious gems benefited the hospital. On the flip side of the coin, Cornelia Guest and other supporters of our four-legged friends saluted the Today Show’s irrepressible pet correspondent Jill Rappaport at the charming and historic Village Latch Inn on Hill Street, which just happens to be for sale for a mere $23 million. (I knew you would want to know.) Rappaport, who is also on the Humane Society Equine Council with Georgina Bloomberg, is being honored by the Southampton Animal Shelter, but more about that in my next column. Who else would tell you these things? ✦

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s a former Top Chef semi-finalist, Sam Talbot is not afraid to fire an open grill and as former executive chef of The Surf Lodge, he is no stranger to the East End. This summer, he’s back, cooking on the go at TURF, his latest farm-to-table venture, housed in a vintage airstream at Ditch Plains Beach. The mobile restaurant offers a daily menu that varies according to the tides and farms. From kale and cucumber juices to lobster rolls and fish tacos, Talbot sources the freshest ingredients from the North and South forks while supporting his favorite local farm stands, Amber Waves and Balsam Farms. Here, the culinary mastermind shares the ins and outs of his summer near the cliffs of Montauk.

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TURF at Ditch Plains Beach, Montauk

WHAT’S THE FIRST THING YOU DO WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN THE HAMPTONS? Let my dog, Tank, run around. AT WHAT ADDRESS WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE? I’m not picky—if it has a view and beautiful garden, I’m in, and if it happens to be along the cliffs of Montauk, or deep in Amagansett, then I’m all set. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE WATERING HOLES? For lunch, I like Simply Sublime, in East Hampton. For dinner, La Brisa, in Montauk. For going out, I’m all for when friends Jack Luber [owner of UES restaurant Mezzaluna] or Rob McKinley [creative force behind The Surf Lodge] hit the ones and twos, spinning records. Wherever they may roam. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE HAMPTONS DISCOVERIES? The secret beaches and trails that seem to lie around every corner if you just go exploring. WHAT’S THE BEST MEAL YOU’VE HAD? My best meals are amongst friends over an open grill. 152 | AVENUE ON THE BEACH • AUGUST 2013

WHAT PART OF THE HAMPTONS LIFESTYLE CAN’T YOU LIVE WITHOUT? The lazy beach days. It’s good for my soul. It brings to mind memories of growing up in the Carolinas, fishing and just being a kid again. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE A TOURIST? Eat at TURF: Obviously a trip without is bad karma. Also, find some great “found” artifacts while combing the beaches. WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE OR EMBARRASSING HAMPTONS MOMENT? The time we ran out of gas the opening night of the Surf Lodge in 2008. That was crazy. The whole kitchen staff, Matty, Rob and I went and got a tank of propane from a friend and were back and up and running in an hour. We got our guests plastered on drinks and they didn’t know a thing!

And one time at a very popular polo match that I was catering, when I tripped and launched about 40 pounds of shrimp ceviche into the dirt with the event starting in 30 minutes. How’s that for some horrible timing? WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE HAMPTONS LOGO? Kookbox Surfboards and an Amber Waves Farms hat. WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST EXTRAVAGANCE? I try not be so extravagant, but man, can I spend some serious money at the food markets out east! It adds up all too quickly.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? A farmer with dreadlocks, with a sexy wife and some beautiful kids. ✦ TURF 646.543.TURF ■ www.andturf.com ■ @andturf ■ @chefsamtalbot

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