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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
607A SHORE WALK
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Renovation Architect: HORACE GIFFORD, 1972-74. Décor: Vincent Fourcade and Robert Denning.
607A Shore Walk was commissioned by Arnold Rosenthal and advertising executive Yves Dihé (1941-90). It is defined as much by the extensive deck that cantilevers over the Great South Bay as by its principal structure. This was an enlargement of an older home, and there were tensions between the architect and the clients. As a result, the house itself lacks the sculptural purity of its architectural cousin at 265-66 Bay Walk. But the experimental homes where architects work out their ideas can be as interesting as the masterpieces. This was the first time that Gifford employed the slanted glass planes that would define 529 Sail Walk in 1975. An Italian magazine dubbed the home a “parallelpiped,” a prism whose faces are all parallelograms. The trellised walkway from the woods to the Bay is a dress rehearsal for the dramatic entry to the Cortner Residence, a late work in the Fire Island hamlet of Seaview. Prefabricated greenhouses, like those at Gifford’s future loft at Turtle Bay Towers, extend the bedrooms at each end of the home.
Rosenthal and Dihé snubbed Gifford’s austere taste in furnishings for a High Seventies confection of ferns and wicker by society decorators Vincent Fourcade and Robert Denning. The shelter magazines took the bait, and it was featured in House Beautiful, along with French and Italian publications. More archival images and the most recent incarnation of the home can be seen on current owner Evan Lobel’s web site, 607AShore.com.
House photos: Michael Dunne, Alain Dovifat, and Horace Gifford.
