For me, nothing says 'dreams of summertime' like a beach house. Preferably a simple little house, with large sliding doors that allow for indoor life to become out door life & vice versa... a very precious seasonal opportunity for us in New England!
Obviously and unsurprisingly this is not my own unique dream... the Northeast coast has a long history of seasonal beach towns and nostalgic summer settlements. But the airy, treading-lightly qualities of modernist architecture seem to result in a perfect romance when it meets the coast. Look for these simple retreats from summers past (still full of life in the present) on Long Island, Rhode Island and Cape Cod, where the Cape Cod Modern House Trust works to document and preserve the houses and their history.*
These beach house dreams have really got me in a
summer-state-of-mind...
Here's to a season of sun-filled days, sandy feet & salty sea air.
Happy Memorial Day!
summer-state-of-mind...
Here's to a season of sun-filled days, sandy feet & salty sea air.
Happy Memorial Day!
*For more on Cape Cod modernist summers past & how they've survived into the present: a recent article on the Wellfleet Colony from the New York Times Magazine.
Hatch Cottage
Wellfleet Massachusetts, 1960
(Maybe a precedent for Steven Holl's Whale House on Martha's Vineyard?)
Images at top & bottom are from the book Weekend Utopia,
a dreamy ode to mid-century modern summer life in the Hamptons.
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