A vintage print of Albert Hadley’s handsomely chic barn in Dark Harbor, Maine.
American summer style is unique in its casual, tossed-off chic. Guided by the easy pace of summer we outfit our summer retreats with simple cottons and linens in neutral hues and summer’s favorite blue-and-white, wicker furniture, aged and painted wood tables and chairs, bare floors dotted with natural fiber rugs, and decorative simplicity – creating our own private oasis’ of calm. In the spirit of summer, less is more. The summertime escapes featured in today’s post speak to our longing for simplicity during the summer season, for clean living and a connection with nature.
Albert Hadley’s Tarryington, New York, country house, 1985. Photo by William P. Steele.
Tricia Foley’s Long Island home.
The guesthouse on a Hamptons property designed by architect Andrew Pollack. Photo by Durston Saylor.
James Huniford’s Lawrence River retreat. Photo by Pieter Estersohn.
James Huniford’s Lawrence River retreat. Photo by Pieter Estersohn.
Mark Cunnighham’s Hudson Valley country house. Photo by William Waldron.
Naturally chic, a Sagaponack beach house designed by James Huniford. Photo by Joshua McHugh.
The Ralph Lauren’s Montauk retreat. Photo by Pieter Estersohn.
Nannette Brown and Jeff Lubin’s Sagaponack home. Photo by Simon Upton.
Nannette Brown and Jeff Lubin’s Sagaponack home. Photo by Simon Upton.
Photo by Anita Calero.
The Connecticut farmhouse of Barbara Dente and Donna Cristina designed by Christian Liaigre, 1997.
A Wainscott. Hamptons. retreat by Sawyer Berson featured on Savvy Home.
The Nantucket family retreat of architect Paul Gray of Warner Gray, Santa Barbara, California, 1979. Photo by Charles S. White.
A Nantucket cottage featured in Gourmet magazine, 1998.
A Sag Harbor retreat by Tom Scheerer.
Melvin Dwork’s Shelter Island cottage, 1993. Photo by Feliciano.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen’s update to a 1757 classic on Nantucket, 1987. Photos by John Hall.
Jeffrey Bilhuber’s 1920’s Rose Cottage on Nantucket. Photo by Peter Vanderwarker.
The Martha’s Vineyard retreat of Lynn Forester de Rothschild and her husband, Sir Evelyn designed by architect Hugh Weisman and decorated by Mark Cunningham. Photo by Oberto Gili.
Casual chic in the Hamptons, by Robert Stilin. Photo by William Waldron.
Victoria Hagan’s Nantucket retreat. Photo by Pieter Estersohn.
Cool and collected, Vicente Wolf’s Montauk beach house. Photos by Minn + Wass.
Montauk, Long Island
Low key style for an expansive Hamptons beach house by Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts. Photo by Simon Upton.
Cristopher, the image of the interior of the barn in Dark Harbor, Maine, does indeed show an influence of Billy Baldwin. But it was the former summer residence of Albert Hadley, a fix-up of one of Sister Parish’s properties on the island. That print on the bench was by his friend Alan Campbell, undoubtedly a regular guest at the time. The wooden trophy head and the modern floor lamp, along with the Maine wool blankets, would later become Albert Hadley signatures. (The lesson here: never trust Pinterest).
The porch was a weekend house near Tarrytown on the Rockefeller estate. In the mid-1980s, Mr Hadley moved to Southport on the Connecticut shore so he could go out on the train and not have to drive his Camaro.
I am a big fan of your blog!
John – Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I know this barn was Albert Hadley’s yet when I typed the description I placed Billy Baldwin in his stead. I scanned the photo from the former’s monograph AND proof read the copy before publishing, and yet still didn’t catch it. I’m in full agreement: never trust Pinterest! And I rarely do. I try to be conscientious and credit my sources accurately. I wish I could blame this on the affects of the scorching summer sun on my brain, but I’m afraid I own this one!
CW
Oh, and by the way … I’m getting the biggest kick from learning Albert Hadley drove a Camaro!