{"id":3025,"date":"2024-09-11T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2024\/09\/11\/year-round-at-the-beach-at-home-with-two-stylish-women-in-the-hamptons\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:43:22","slug":"year-round-at-the-beach-at-home-with-two-stylish-women-in-the-hamptons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/year-round-at-the-beach-at-home-with-two-stylish-women-in-the-hamptons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutto l'anno in spiaggia: A casa con due donne alla moda negli Hamptons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a trip to Paris\u2019s Maison et Objet, our co-founders Julie and Francesca crossed paths with Mona Nerenberg, owner of Bloom in Sag Harbor, NY, a cult-favorite shop filled with Swedish antiques and white ceramics (now in its 18th year). Noting that the Gardenista team had been to her Hamptons home to admire the deer fencing\u2014Mona is married to landscape designer Lisa Bynon\u2014she invited us back to take a proper look inside.<\/p>\n

Mona and Lisa live in a 19th-century shingled house that came untouched\u2014and with a falling-down fish market attached to the kitchen. The two met as students at the Parson\u2019s School of Design and have a shared aesthetic that\u2019s all about poetic objects, a black-and-white palette, and not a lot of stuff. Others may have been deterred by the the jungle of vines and colony of bats that had overtaken the residence, but they vowed to keep the gracious center-hall layout as is and approached the remodel as an unveiling .<\/p>\n

Their friend interior designer Mark Cunningham, a former VP of creative services at Ralph Lauren, who had joined Mona on early buying trips for Bloom (and with Sam Hamilton co-founded the great SF design emporium March), stepped in to orchestrate. Working in close collaboration, each contributed key elements: Lisa and her crew extended the house\u2019s beadboard paneling in strategic spots, Mona supplied Pierre Jeanneret chairs and apple matting from Bloom, and Mark pulled it all together, new two-story kitchen included. Join us for a tour of a standout Hamptons classic.<\/p>\n

Photography by Bj\u00f6rn Wallander, courtesy of Mark Cunningham (@marked_ny).<\/p>\n


Above: Thanks to a great deal of clearing and planting, the couple and their chickens now live surrounded by three acres of lawn, hedge, and gardens. The shingles and windows are original. <\/p>\n

The house is in the hamlet of North Sea\u2014the nearest beach is a quick bike ride away\u2014and was built by a family in the Blue Book of the Hamptons. <\/em>Mona and Lisa are only the third owners.<\/p>\n


Above: Double front doors open to a hall with a new pine floor and a grand stair cloaked in white: the couple used Benjamin Moore\u2019s Super White throughout (one of our Architects\u2019 Favorite White Paint Picks). Mona and Lisa sold their previous house fully furnished\u2014\u201dwe walked out with our cats and our clothes\u201d\u2014so they started from scratch here, and Mark played a big role in the the hunting and gathering.,<\/p>\n

A Donald Sultan lemon drawing hangs on the wall here over a French bench\u2014ticking stripes are just about the only pattern welcomed in.<\/p>\n


Above: The living room is furnished with a trio of upholstered pieces from Ralph Lauren Home that are typically occupied by Charlie and Sam, the cats, and Ruby, the dog. Mark says the wood coffee table from D\u00e9miurge is what made the room feel finished. <\/p>\n

On the walls throughout, Mona and Lisa used Benjamin Moore\u2019s Super White, one of our Architects\u2019 Favorite White Paint Picks.<\/p>\n


Above: A bay window overlooks the garden. The Jeanneret teak Chandigarh chair is one of two from Bloom. The rug is Bloom\u2019s signature apple matting, a woven rush so-named, Mona explains, because it was traditionally made in England by apple pickers during the off-season.
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Above: The neediest part of the house was the kitchen, part of which had to be ripped off when the crumbling fish market was taken down. Mark came up with the inspired idea of removing the kitchen attic and creating a two-story space. The paint-splattered floor boards were salvaged from the attic, which, for a time, had served as an art studio.,<\/p>\n

During the garden off-season, Lisa and her landscape team matched the existing beadboard paneling on the upper walls and ceiling. The room\u2019s centerpiece is an old marble-topped ceramic artist\u2019s table still chalky with clay. Mona tells us \u201cI really don\u2019t like much, in fact I hate just about everything,\u201d but adds she\u2019s ever on the lookout for pieces like the table.<\/p>\n


Above: A narrow pantry divides the kitchen from the dining room. A row of butcher\u2019s hooks hang over a watercolor of a rock by Mats Gustafson. The butcher block table is French.
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Above: One of the things that Mona least likes is lighting\u2014she says she prefers natural light and notes that she doesn\u2019t sell any lights at Bloom. In the dining room Mark stepped up to this challenge with a pair of plaster chandeliers by Stephen Antonson\u2014see The Master of Plaster. The antique English cabinet was made for a veterinarian\u2014Mona bought it for her shop but didn\u2019t have room for it. The Swedish stick-back chairs with original paint are also from Bloom.
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Above: On a buying trip to the South of France, Mark made the first purchase for the house: this 14-foot-long dining table. He came up with the inspired idea of hanging Mona and Lisa\u2019s Astier de Villatte plates en masse: a traditional approach \u201cgiven a fresh face,\u201d he says, \u201cand a great way to bring in another texture and a graphic quality  in lieu of art.\u201d (Lisa did the hanging: \u201cit looks really simple but it wasn\u2019t because each plate is irregularly shaped,\u201d says Mona.),<\/p>\n

More Astier de Villatte fills the cabinet: a romantic vine-covered shed in the back of Bloom is devoted solely to the French ceramics.<\/p>\n


Above: The library shelves are stacked with Mona\u2019s
\nWorld of Interiors<\/em> collection dating back to the magazine\u2019s early years in the 1980s. A collapsible wallpaper tables stands by the front windows with a restored and bleached Jeanneret chair in front of it
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Sopra:
\nRay<\/em>, from Michael Dweck\u2018s Montauk series, hangs in the library. (Dweck is one of a few who Mona represents locally.)
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Above: \u201cI like to be surrounded by space and light,\u201d says Mona of the all-white master bedroom. The cast-iron bed came from a local favorite antiques shop that\u2019s no longer in business. (The vellum box under it holds an extra blanket.),

Above: An antique chest from Bloom and an armchair from Ralph Lauren Home. The floor is painted in a high-gloss white enamel from Benjamin Moore.
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Above: The bathrooms required redoing, but this one has it original claw-foot tub, which Lisa restored with several coats of black paint. The fixture is from Waterworks. That\u2019s another Michael Dweck photo hanging on the original paneling.
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Above: A guest room, also known as Mark\u2019s room, carries on the black-and-white look to great effect with a boxspring in a ticking from Rogers & Goffigon. <\/p>\n

In the years since the house was complete, Mark has opened his own NYC showroom, Marked, and been named to world\u2019s best designer lists: \u201cWe were so lucky to have him,\u201d says Mona, \u201cMark is in another league now.\u201d<\/p>\n


Above: A glimpse of the elegant\u2014and deer-proof\u2014fencing that Lisa designed for the vegetable garden. Note the privet, trimmed to the exact middle of the diamond fencing.
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Above: See more at The Landscape Designer Is In. <\/p>\n

When we come across a design store we admire, we often ask if we can follow the owner home. Here are three more shopkeepers with inspired homes:<\/p>\n