They’re being torn down and replaced with cookie-cutter mansions.
The Antler House.“You’d think with all this decluttering, people wouldn’t need these massive walk-in wardrobes. How many outfits are they going to wear in the six weeks they’re out here?” says Timothy, that is trying to save modernist homes in the area. “But unfortunately a lot of people are like, ‘Bigger, better, more of it.’ The mentality after the war into the ’70s was building smaller, but in the ’80s it just got crazy. People wanted their Ralph LaurenEnglish houses.
with landscaping in perpetuity when it was built in 1978. The stark triangular shape was considered an eyesore.Even the Jaffe-designed house at 100 Further Lane in East Hampton, which sold last year at auction for $16.8 million and has more than 6,000 square feet, a pool and a tennis court, is slated for demolition, according to Godbold. Doomed byNot every wealthy Hamptonite wants to build gambrel-roofed monstrosities on the graveyards of modernist masterpieces, of course.
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