South Fork

Bethenny Frankel had plenty to say after Architectural Digest recently featured her Miami  home and online trolls rushed to label it tasteless and bland. But in her response video, the Hamptons took center stage — because for Frankel, there’s no better proof of her design strategy than the returns she’s made out east. “Let…

Today, giant sculptures created by internationally known artists sit on the lawns of perhaps 50 offices, stores and cultural institutions in the Hamptons. It was not always so. Back around 2006, a bitter fight took place in Sag Harbor when one of the first of those sculptures got placed on the lawn of a…

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, members of High Society in the City of New York built grand summer mansions by the ocean in Southampton. There was tennis, golf, sunbathing and brisk salt sea air, considered a healthy restorative. One of the largest such mansions — still standing today — is “Ocean…

One of the most attractive interior spaces in the Hamptons, in my opinion, is the passenger waiting area of Hampton Jitney in the Southampton Omni. About the size of a small airline terminal, you can relax in one area where sofas and chairs are set up in a living room arrangement, sit at café…