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Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
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2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
230 BAY WALK
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Architect: MARCEL BRETOS, c. 1986.
More accurately described as a compound than a home, 230 Bay Walk consists of a one-bedroom house flanked by guest wings and a gym pavilion. All are entered from the outside, via breezeways, and surround a pool that penetrates into the sky-lit screened porch. Expressive trusses above and shallow steps around the pool deck recall the 1950’s Sarasota homes of Paul Rudolph, yet at a scale that often eluded Rudolph at that point in his career.
The home was commissioned by the Katzen family, who hired Marcel Bretos. The architect did not live to see the completion of the home, due to failing health. He died of AIDS in 1986. Though painted in recent years, its strongly horizontal planks and glue-laminated trusses featured exposed wood.
Dwarfing the modernist cottages of twenty years earlier, 230 Bay Walk is a shoulder-padded take on modernism for the Dynasty era
Photos: Tom Sibley.
