The dramatic Great Room is the centerpiece of this modern waterfront house.
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Located in Sagaponack’s only truly private oceanfront enclave, the home of a groundbreaking fashion designer is for sale. Built in 1998, the three bedroom, three bath home measures 4,500 square feet and is set on two acres of spectacular waterfront land. Elie Tahari purchased the house from well-known advertising exec, Jay Chiat, whose landscape-designer wife, Edwina von Gal, created the landscape for the property.
The home is located in the only private enclave in Sagaponack, which consists of six homes inside a gate.
“What is special about the house’s location is that it sits on a very unusual stretch of beach,” says listing agent Keith Green of Sotheby’s International Realty East Hampton Brokerage. “The property is just high enough to grant you resolute privacy and low enough that the beach is right there and part of your everyday.”
Another plus of this property is that that it has been granted approval and has plans in place to expand the property to an eight-bedroom home. The plans were drawn up by Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects, the same firm that designed Calvin Klein’s home in Southampton.
The interior designed by Tom Flynn has often been seen in coffee table books and design magazines, but rarely in person. Flynn meticulously furnished it with mid-century pieces eminently suited to the modernist architecture.
At the kitchen end, the Great Room looks towards a wooded, private landscape.
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The barn-like Great Room is the center of activity with opposing 10-foot tambour glass doors that rise to form an alee. Its axis runs from the ocean front lawn through the 30-foot high peaked ceilinged space, to the serene and protected 60-foot pool situated within a forest of Russian olive trees.
On the ocean side, a flagstone terrace is home to a vine-covered pergola sheltering a dining table for ten. On a cool summer evening, guests congregate around the hearth-like fireplace.
The secluded master suite, which features a panoramic view of the Atlantic Ocean’s storied Sagaponack Beach, features a room-sized shower, a six-person pool-like tub, an office/getaway with an 85-inch TV and private balcony overlooking the great room.
Mid-century modernist furnishings suit the modern oceanfront house.
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Two other suites complete the home. One is located oceanfront, with private egress to the beach, while the other suite features a four-person steam shower and a wall of glass leading to a hidden garden.
The expansive and extremely private sun deck also has its own stairs to the beach.
The property is offered for $39 million by Ann Ciardullo and Keith Green, Sotheby’s International Realty East Hampton Brokerage.