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Kate Spade

Inside Kate and Andy Spade's $4.75 Million Summer Home

The shingle-style Summer home Kate and Andy Spade are selling in Southampton is almost as quirky and quintessentially American as the eponymous brands the couple once designed.

The shingle-style Summer home Kate and Andy Spade are selling in Southampton is almost as quirky and quintessentially American as the eponymous brands the couple once designed.

At nearly three acres, the property — whose asking price was recently reduced to $4.75 million from $5.45 million — is the largest in Southampton's Art Village, where artist William Merritt Chase founded a Summer painting school in 1892. Today, the estate includes a freestanding ballroom, a painting studio, separate servant's quarters, and a two-car garage in addition to the eight-bedroom main house.

The home's interior is filled with charming details like bead board and an apron-front porcelain sink in the kitchen. It also features three fireplaces, six bathrooms, a formal dining room, and three porches that overlook the gardens and sprawling lawns. Many of the walls are covered in bead board, and wide windows and a variety of wall sconces and chandeliers keep the place light. A look at all that, here in the gallery.


Photos via Saunders & Associates

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Cool Idea: Hammock Hang-Up

A recent New York Times article, "A Spare Stage for the Spectacle of Life," took readers into the Long Island home of artist Karin Waisman and architect Carlos Brillembourg, which is quite narrow yet still full of light and space for the couple and their daughter, Antonia.

A recent New York Times article, "A Spare Stage for the Spectacle of Life," took readers into the Long Island home of artist Karin Waisman and architect Carlos Brillembourg, which is quite narrow yet still full of light and space for the couple and their daughter, Antonia. While I would certainly call the property a Coveted Crib, it's not the house itself that grabbed me.Perusing an interactive photo blueprint for the home, I noticed that the couple had used five hammocks as wall décor in their dining room. The space is notably minimal (white walls and chairs, oak floors and table), so evenly spaced on the wall and picking up the colors of a tray of veggies on the table, the hammocks are quite visually arresting. They're fitting, too; Brillembourg hails from Venezuela and Waisman from Argentina, and hammocks are ubiquitous in South America. I've been attracted to the colorful multi-stripe textiles used in traditional hammocks, so using them purely for decorative purposes was a successful move. Of course, if they'd like to step outdoors and enjoy the Southampton Summer weather, the family of three can each grab one, and still have two for the road . . .