A Hamptons Modern With Roots in I.M. Pei
126 Noyac Path was built by Robert Lym Jr. for Walter Kacik.
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The architect Robert Lym Jr. did not go after the glory. THE museums,, librariesAnd hotels He helped the design to be marked under the name of his boss, Im Pei. Hired in the late 1950s, Lym stayed until his retirement in 2002, when he went up for the head of interiors. Friends of the university with Alexander Calder, whose mobile was suspended in his apartment in Sutton Place, Lym was a creation of Temperament: Highbrow and Fun, according to his nephew Glenn Robert Lym, who followed him in architecture. The weekends were spent at the Opera or during parties organized by Mondaine Gill Kit Or Philip Johnson, whose social whirlwind of gay New Yorkers and Highbrow over herself. It was also selective to take additional work, designing only three houses under his own name. One was renovated beyond recognition, while the second was shaved to build an airport. The third is now on the market.
Behind the fireplace is a dining room, which leads to another bridge.
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The simple house in cedar in 126 Path Noyac in the water mill has not been designed to be a business card. Invisible from the street for most of the year, the Maison de 1971 is unknown even from most of the inhabitants and does not seem to have been published in a magazine. “It’s a kind of mystery,” said the critic Alastair Gordonwho looked for the house for her 2001 Book on modern houses in Hamptons But “could not find anything on this subject”. This winter, creator Timothy Godbold saw it on one of the screening missions for which he directs A non -profit organization documenting modern houses(When the leaves are naked, they are easier to spot): “I thought, Wow,, How can I go to this house?“”
The glass doors open onto the bridges that move away from the house and each measure 20 feet wide.
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The one floor house was a solid square, built low on the ground, on agricultural land that lacked a lot of landscaping: no swimming pool, no aisle, no flower banks. Like a subsequent myron goldfinger manor, the house seemed to hide from the world behind a skin of vertical wooden planks. Four tiny wings hold a kitchen and three tiny bedrooms, whose windows are shaded by wooden fins. Between them, on each side of the square, sliding glass doors open to terraces 20 feet wide which lead to the grass. Simplicity seemed completely “unpretentious,” said Godbold. Intrigued, he photographed the house and discovered floor plans at the city’s clerk office which showed how symmetry worked inside, with a living room in the center and a bedroom in each corner.
The plans had been signed by Lym, whose name appears rarely online. It is not a common name either, and Godbold sent a Glenn message after finding his site. He had heard of the first -hand house and had seen a clear link with the work of his uncle. The open living room, closed on four sides by sliding glass doors, had a foot in the “modernism of the glass box” that Lym would have studied at Harvard, and the wheel floor plan was similar to an EPI museum Syracuse that Lym had spoken of working. It opened its doors in 1968, the year Lym filed the first plans for 126. “Never saw him, I realized that it was Bob. I just didn’t know that he would be as closely woven as Bob, “explains Glenn. He saw his uncle most clearly in the rooms, which was obtained from the sight – not only by the fans who obscured the windows – but by the way the doors faced the corridors, rather than in the living room, as if Lym was concerned about what could happen if someone opened a door. “The house was very, very tight and there is all this control,” explains Glenn.
The rooms are comfortable and private, according to the Horace Gifford model to make the house more social by pushing pleasure in an open living room.
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Lym probably met his client at work. Walter Kacik was a graphic designer who joined the PEI office in the late 1950s, when the PPE was redesigned how buildings could incorporate signaling by Hiring of graduates from the Yale School of Design – Alma Mater de Kacik before a visit to the army. When Kacik left the company in 1962, he succeeded, winning lucrative commissions to rethink the corporate logos and the start of an eponymous company that won a City contract to rethink the garbage truck. He renamed the old fleet as clean, white and stamped with “sanitation” in Minveta in a tiny – a daring choice for 1968, which he made to associate the fleet with a “kind of purity”, ” He said. He also renamed himself, returning to his family 19th century spelling (Kacik) rather than his father’s anglicized “kasick”. While other gay men of his generation leave to create a kind of utopia on the island of Fire, Kacik, who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, perhaps wanted a retreat on agricultural land, known as Nancy Kasick, who married his nephew and visited the house a few times: “He was a brilliant and in advance man.”
Kacik changed the appearance of his city with a simple signaling. From left to right: Photo: NYC Department of SanitationPhoto: NYC Department of Sanitation
Kacik changed the appearance of his city with a simple signaling. High: Photo: NYC Department of SanitationPhoto: NYC Department of Sanitation
He was also generous, explains Nancy Kasick. Glenn says his uncle stayed with Kacik every summer. If he fell into the house, it could have been because it was there that he met his 38 -year -old partner, who had shown himself when the place was still under construction, asking to take a clove of garlic. It was Arthur Coake, who stayed nearby and who Died in 2017. Glue Died in 2006. And Kacik died in 2012, leaving behind his partner, the publisher David James Walsh, who died last year.
The husband of Nancy Kasick has kept snapshots of the house, which go back to its construction. From left to right: Photo: Gracieuse of the Kasick familyPhoto: Gracieuse of the Kasick family
The husband of Nancy Kasick has kept snapshots of the house, which go back to its construction. High: Photo: Gracieuse of the Kasick familyPhoto: graciousness of kasick …
The husband of Nancy Kasick has kept snapshots of the house, which go back to its construction. High: Photo: Gracieuse of the Kasick familyPhoto: Gracieuse of the Kasick family
The house sales project fell to the Drew Green broker, who was amazed at unique design. (“It is the most symmetrical house I have ever seen, and it is in the shape of a restless spinner.”) But it cannot necessarily save it. The house is only 2,200 square feet, and it saw buyers and developers demolish small houses to ensure that the high cost of the land was worth it. It is on the market for $ 3.45 million – and Green lists it with three other lots that the couple also had, which are at the price between 2.3 and 3.45 million dollars, or $ 10.5 million for the four. If the houses go up on this land, the house will be more visible – more a refuge, but the business card that Lym has never asked. “It is not a house supposed to be seen outside and make an impression,” explains Glenn. What these days, in the Hamptons means that it stands out. “What makes him incredible is simplicity,” explains Godbold. “It dissolves in the landscape.”
Price: $ 3.45 million
Specifications: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Extras: Four bridges that add 1,180 square feet of outdoor space; Two acres of land allow room for a swimming pool and a tennis court
The designer Timothy Godbold tripped on the house and admired him for his “simplicity”, with sparkles of windows in the rooms which reminded him of the windows in “a modern brutalist church”.
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Customers enter the other side of this independent library (right) and go on foot in the center, where an open living space is lit by sliding glass doors on two sides that lead to bridges.
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The wood outside would have been identical to the wood inside when the house has increased, but the exteriors have since faded.
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Each side of the square house has a glass wall and a terrace, framed on two sides by chamber wings. Behind the fireplace is a dining room.
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A view of the dining room towards a simple kitchen.
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In the kitchen, light comes from a well of light. The couple had an “affinity to collect clocks”, explains the broker Drew Green.
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Two of the room wings include a bathroom and a third has access to a laundry room.
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