Modernism on the market: a Norman Jaffe-designed icon on Shelter Island hits the market

Throw a stone in Lengthy Island and chances are high you’ll hit a residence with some architectural distinction. From a purely mercenary viewpoint, the area was awash with tear-downs, a lot to the chagrin of design fans.

The area’s gradual elevation right into a rarefied retreat world for essentially the most moneyed New Yorkers has put a little bit of a damper on innovation, with lots of the extra modest buildings constructed within the 60s, 70s and 80s now misplaced for good.

Solely these buildings that had been constructed huge within the first place have managed to make it to architectural maturity, with all the mandatory protections that affords.

That’s the case with this beautiful Norman Jaffe design on Shelter Island. The Osofsky Home was commissioned in 1971 by style mogul Meyer Osofsky. Osofsky’s sportswear label Aileen was named for his spouse, a famous philanthropist in each New York and Lengthy Island.

The Osofskys briefed Jaffe to create a spectacular fashionable residence, one among three homes the architect designed on this spot on Shelter Island (the Seidler Home and Betty Jacobs Home). The architect, who drowned off Bridgehampton in 1993 aged 61, was the consummate exponent of his personal tackle rustic American modernism. Residing and dealing within the area, he constructed a complete of fifty tasks in and across the Hamptons.

Aileen and Meyer had a protracted affiliation with the home, which was additional expanded and up to date by Jaffe in 1981. The home now has six ensuite bedrooms, together with a separate visitor wing, with different facilities together with a health club, cinema room, heated pool and catering kitchen.

In 2020, the home was offered to inside designer Ben Broughman (who had admired the home from afar for a few years earlier than buying it) and his then associate Waheed Alli.

The next renovation introduced the home bang into the twenty first century, with a mixture of eclectic up to date ornament, up to date amenities and facilities and a refreshed sense of color and sample that pays homage to the home’s 70s heyday.

The setting, on the north-eastern shore of Shelter Island, is spectacular, with Jaffe’s design offering a staggered cascade of balconies overlooking the seashore at Gardiners Bay. A naturally planted backyard allows the home to mix completely into the shoreline, with vertical stone piers and chimneys pierced by the horizontal roof construction.

The latter belies the sturdy affect of Frank Lloyd Wright on Jaffe’s work (the balconies are strongly harking back to Wright’s Fallingwater), with the monumental stonework carried by way of to the inside, notably within the fireplaces and flooring, paired with flooring to ceiling home windows (extra of these ocean views), wood cladding and daring patterned materials.

The updates additionally included some gentle reconfiguration of the plan, with a brand new ground-level kitchen and higher entry to the outside throughout the home’s many ranges.

In whole, the Osofsky Home has an space of 6,715 sq. ft, with 175 ft of shoreline frontage. Your complete plot, which features a tennis court docket and two-car storage, measures 1.7 acres. It’s due to this fact unsurprising to seek out that the close to $18m asking worth makes it the present costliest itemizing on Shelter Island.

The Osofsky Home is available on the market with Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty for $17.995m, SanMiguelSothebysRealty.com