Modern Farmhouse Style: Step Inside 8 Refined Homes | Architectural Digest

Albers’s principle is brilliantly manifested at a 13-acre Stuyvesant, New York, countryside retreat, which Shellhammer and spouse Georgi Balinov have. In a number of brief months, they transformed the 1840s a few-bedroom farmhouse and the property’s 8 (yes, you browse that suitable) more buildings into a modernist Eden, with all the amenities for web hosting their household and close friends just two and a half several hours from Manhattan. As a charming signpost suggests, there’s a swimming pool, sauna, network of bars and lounges, film theater, and vegetable patch, not to point out an abundance of peaceful areas. The estate’s identify, Rode Barns, arrives from the three showstopping stables, painted in vivid hues impressed by Albers’s 1943 oil painting, Connected (purple). —Anne Quito

Pattern Enjoy in East Hampton

A blue-check out linen from Wells Textiles covers the walls in the twin guest area, wherever the classic headboards are by Danny Ho Fong, and the bamboo stools are from Neo Studio.

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In 1 family’s Lengthy Island compound, two hallmarks of Hamptons architecture stand facet by aspect: a 19th-century Shingle Design saltbox festooned with hydrangeas (they contact it the farmhouse) and its super-present day foil weighty on the glass by New York Town firm Architecture Outfit.

“East Hampton is our escape it’s in which we go to breathe and take it easy,” clarifies the customer, who life right here with her spouse and two sons. They acquired the tumbledown farmhouse in 2018 and understood they desired a a lot more up to date counterpoint. “We desired to come across an inside designer who could tie jointly these two extremely diverse constructions.”

The customer responded to New York City–based decorator Neal Beckstedt’s knack for what she phone calls “laid-back luxury,” a glance he honed for a decade doing the job for architect Russell Groves right before launching his have enterprise in 2010. For this task, Beckstedt recollects, “The shopper required a thing that was understated and livable—not stuffy. A new strategy to the Hamptons.” And most importantly, “they ended up not afraid of colour.” —Hannah Martin

Austin Furnishings That Set Relatives Initial

Their additional official dwelling space capabilities four Ralph Lauren armchairs decorated with antique Swedish pillows from Howe London, two ceramic cocktail tables from Bzippy in Los Angeles, and a espresso table with personalized brass inlay from Sawkille Co. in upstate New York. The blue-and-yellow striped ottoman (glimpsed significantly remaining) was manufactured by Davidson out of a dhurrie from the Jared and Genevieve Padalecki’s former home in Los Angeles. The piano belonged to Genevieve’s mother.

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