This is one of those homes some people will love and many will hate. It’s crazy bright, bold, full of contrast, and not without more than its fair share of nuttiness. The Hamptons beach house of fashion designer Lisa Perry is filled with more art than the Guggenheim, and all those towering white walls have the bombastic feel of a major American museum. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to live here. Let’s take a tour and see what you think.
White walls, black trim, lucite console, jade green and Chinese red = a good start.
For some reason I find the lamps and flowers ultra annoying, but I never met a Frank Stella I didn’t want to french kiss, so this one makes the grade for me.
Those chairs are very larval, but I might have a soft spot for furnishings of the grub worm persuasion…
I suppose I could pick this apart, but I won’t. Instead I’m going to imagine that I’m eating eggs benedict washed down with mimosas, and when I’m full to bursting I’ll just scoot myself across the floor until I fall into the pool. Hopefully I will survive the long journey.
Look! They have my eggs ready and waiting. Over easy, how did they know?
Hey kitchen, I just might love you. I think the prints are by Enzo Mari, but I may be embarrassing myself, here. Cassie will know.
That Gaetano Pesce chair appeared in Max Azria’s amazing home. Apparently it’s very fashionable.
Mmmmmmm… no. Valentine’s Day only comes once a year, and it should stay that way forever and ever.
Let’s look beyond the fact that there are way too many beds in here and just agree this room is awesome. I want a green rug (pass on the wall to wall action) and a giant stuffed elephant in the worst way. Ok, I said I was going to look beyond it, but really — four kids stuffed in one room when you live in a giant mansion? Or maybe it’s a dormitory? Perhaps they hold Michael Jackson style dinner parties? What gives, people???
Insert your thoughts here. I probably share them.
That’s it — what did you think? Are you ready to move in, running the other way, or just planning a big heist?
[Lux Productions Photography via Trendland]
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Ha, you give me too much credit. When I saw the apple print, I immediately thought of the one in Sarah Jessica Parker’s kitchen (why do I remember that? It must have been reblogged a lot). That one was a Enzo Mari (your link), but it’s a different shape from this one, so I don’t know.
My cobalt-blue-loving self adores the painting at the bottom.
I like that Perry’s consistent—her clothing is very Mary Quant/mod, so I’m glad to see she lives in a similar style. Also, dining room with a pool? Genius.
I wouldn’t know, but I would venture to guess that people who own a house in the Hamptons don’t really live there (the way we mere mortals live in our one and only house 52 weeks of the year). They probably go four or five weekends per summer, so for four or five weekends, I could put up with that house (especially if I was on the beach all day). 52 weeks per year? No effing way. But I do like herding all the kids into a room full of astroturf.
if this posts twice – my apologies. my computer is so freaky that by the time it loaded for the comments the first time, i’d forgotten my comment. i digress.
i guess the green room w/multi bed sitch is for visiting grandkids or cousins? larval chair freaking me out.
I love most of it — couldn’t live there every day (too much white), but as a getaway spot, definitely. I hate: the red/white/disco ball room and the fruit art in the kitchen.
I dislike fruit art, in general, but love big, stuffed elephants!
I don’t hate the kitchen.
I feel pretty MEH about most of the art. But I’m pretty unsophisticated in that department. So maybe its just over my head. The disco balls are a definite NO, though.
I love this whole house. LOVE! The yellow bedroom I especially covet. And that cobalt blue – sigh.
Exceptions: Like Wendy, I hate fruit art. All food art, really. That egg art may be highbrow, but it’s too cheeky for my taste (taste? food? Get it? Sorry.)
these accessories are forcing me into “kill” mode. granted, the whole space is not really my thing, but there is NO REASON ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH so scatter little blots of color all over a room like paint flicked off of a brush, people. Big Yellow Painting does have to translate to a scattering of yellow flowers, yellow lamps, and yellow pillows. looks very amateurish, in my estimable opinion. GAG.
I find it interesting when entire houses read like someone used a box of crayons as their inspiration point… cheerful, playful, but also juvenile and very active. Despite all that white, I don’t find any of it to provide calm to the shocks of intense color, or the shapes that seem to overwhelm each room. That said, I really enjoy that hallway with the color blocking, and the capiz shell lighting fixtures. That’s beachy, light-hearted and relaxed, yet still sophisticated.
the elephant was the best part for me
Not for me. There is something very Fruit of the Loom about it.
I am particularly partial to the living room in this house. If it came down to it, I’d arm wrestle all comers for those Fabio Lenci chairs. Oh, and I love lots of decorative footrests scattered about for the visual interest…and the danger.
LOVE LOVE LOVE YES LOVE OMG LOVE.
But you probably already knew that.
tacky high end but on the right amount of drugs stupendous. i don’t even want to know what goes on on that red chair on the round dais opposite the round bed. I like the kitchen the best, the rest…kinda creepy in a Jerry Blank Strangers in Candy kinda way. i’m sure a lot of coke goes down in that massive living room with the larvae chairs and white custom sectionals…
A curious house. But I wouldn’t use the word ‘home’. Does anyone really live there? Looks more like a party pad or set for a chic version of Big Brother.
Debbie K, you amaze me. That is all.
Great to see design like this! Thanks for a great post!
Jamie Herzlinger
I love this house! WOW!
The room with the elephant is for their one kid and his/her 3 friends for sleepovers. There is another big room for him/her of corse! Ha.
When can we move in?