Mecox Gardens Situated on three acres in lovely Southampton, Mecox Gardens’ founding location will play host this summer to a unique “pool house” installation erected by Cocoon9, Chris Burch’s new prefab home design and construction company. Visitors to the store will be able to tour one of the venture’s prefabricated outdoor ... More

For decades, if you saw a carpenter framing a house in the Hamptons, it was a safe bet that a rambling, shingled home would soon be taking shape, complete with transom windows, cross gables and a gambrel roofline. But the buyers of new homes are no longer in thrall ... More

It may seem obvious that a beach house should look and feel like, well, a beach house, but some New Yorkers  with second homes in the Hamptons find it difficult to leave the city’s design sensibilities behind. Over the years, fussy window treatments, over-the-top moldings and decidedly beach-unfriendly upholstery ... More

The sunny South of Fifth shoreline in Miami has a new addition to sit among its scattering of palm trees. Danish architect Thomas Juul-Hansen, in partnership with JMH Development, has designed the unique luxury residences of 300 Collins, a feat of innovation, style and eco-consciousness. Featuring 19 units ... More

In a fully converted service station in the Hamptons, acclaimed landscape designer Frederico Azevedo has set up A Perfect Setting—a contemporary showroom for Unlimited Earth Care, a landscape design company that incorporates the natural terrain into an overall vision for the garden.  The Brazilian native, who has received ... More

Rather than let your vacation home sit unattended for weeks at a time, 3rd Home, a premier private club for owners of luxury second homes, lets you exchange that time for stays at top destinations worldwide. With 3,600 properties across the globe, 3rd Home allows second home ... More

As a little girl, Katie Lee lived in rural West Virginia, in a town so small that its most notable landmarks—at least according to Wikipedia—are a covered bridge, an Opry House and a long-shuttered hospital for “crippled children.” So when she first moved to the Hamptons, back in ... More

Legendary Montauk getaway Gurney’s Resort & Seawater Spa has long housed the who’s who of the Hamptons elite, and this summer guests will be treated to new luxury amenities and delicious restaurants. The first change to greet visitors is the newly renovated lobby space, which seeks to blur the ... More

To the uninitiated, landscape design might seem like the sort of field that’s impervious to fashion; after all, aren’t the attributes of an attractive garden, for lack of a better word, perennial? Not so, says designer Frederico Azevedo of the Hamptons outfit Unlimited Earth Care. “A few years ago,” he ... More

Olympians certainly can’t afford to have their heads in the clouds, but these days they do seem to be sleeping on air. There’s an innovative new sleep solution in town called airweave, and it’s getting a lot of attention from world-class athletes – individuals for whom the ... More