Inside designer Timothy Godbold has overhauled his own residence within the Hamptons, portray the outside black and renovating the within to resemble a lair from a James Bond film.
Timothy Godbold’s 1,700-square-foot (158-square-metre) Southampton house was inbuilt 1973 by architect Eugene L Futterman, who designed many notable residences within the space through the mid-Twentieth century.
The constructing required in depth renovation work, so the Australian designer regarded to the modernist icons he remembered from his youth: people who featured within the James Bond motion pictures.
“Hailing from Perth, Australia, Godbold sought to mix his childhood house with the texture of a villain’s hideout straight out of a James Bond film,” stated his studio.
Leaning into this concept, Godbold painted the constructing’s cedar-clad exterior solely black, which helped to cover imperfections within the siding.
The constructing includes two linked trapezoidal volumes that angle upwards away from each other, making a dynamic roofline, and a staircase alongside the be part of supplies entry to the break up ranges on both facet.
Giant image home windows body views of the encircling woodlands and a number of skylights with timber louvres herald extra mild from above.
Within the barely shorter half of the constructing is a split-level dwelling house, which advantages from the peak of the monopitched roof and the pure mild that pours in from overhead.
Downstairs, the furnishings contains sofas which are a part of a classic Lara sectional by Roberto Pamio, Noti Massari and Renato Toso, and a espresso desk by Lella and Massimo Vignelli.
Heat-toned gray plaster covers the partitions, and ceiling – a sculptural chimney breast and hearth are flanked by stepped sides.
“Mayan ziggurat temples served as the premise for the lounge hearth, and the hanging backyard was impressed by the work of Paul Rudolph – particularly, his angled partitions,” Godbold’s workforce stated.
Hidden from view behind the angled planter, the TV room on the higher stage options extra seating and a classic espresso desk with a glass prime, and a travertine and brass base.
The first suite occupies the highest stage of the taller quantity, the place the partitions had been eliminated to open the toilet to the sleeping space.
The carpeted flooring space beneath the mattress is raised to create a floating look, and a tall linen curtain will be drawn round this space for privateness as desired.
Each the toilet and a closet are tucked beneath the angled roof, the previous lined with darkish gray fibre-cement panels scored with vertical grooves.
Two visitor bedrooms are situated on the bottom stage, linked by a wood-lined hall with massive home windows that face onto a terrace.
One is furnished with a stainless-steel mattress with a travertine headboard and a built-in desk at its foot, whereas the identical supplies proceed in a visitor lavatory.
“Very similar to Goldfinger’s lair, chrome steel is utilised all through — from the furnishings to the {hardware},” stated the workforce.
Set on a sloped plot, the house has entry to the backyard at totally different ranges from entrance to again. Sq. “lily pad” steps lead up from the road to the entrance terrace, whereas a steeper staircase hyperlinks to the raised patio on the again.
Deeper into the timber, a minimalist firepit sits on a round mosaic platform that mimics the nuclear image.
Godbold can be concerned within the native nonprofit organisation Hamptons Twentieth Century Trendy, which affords annual house excursions of the realm’s architectural gems in the summertime.
Different midcentury properties on this a part of Lengthy Island which were renovated embrace a stone-clad seaside home by Norman Jaffe that was revived by Neil Logan Architect, and a cedar-clad dwelling by Charles Gwathmey that was sensitively refreshed by Worrell Yeung.
The images is by David Mitchell.
