The double-height living room features floors of reclaimed Vermont oak and a custom paint color, both of which are employed throughout the house for continuity. Bespoke pieces include a Huniford Collection Reade sofa, covered in a gray herringbone Maharam fabric, and lamps made from architectural fragments and mica shades. The installation above the fireplace, modeled after Donald Judd, is by decorator James Huniford.
For their new house in Water Mill, Broadway director Walter Bobbie and opera singer David Frye opted for a serenely updated take on rural farm vernacular.
The dining room includes a custom bluestone table and Wiener Werkstätte chairs purchased in Paris; the frame on the mirror is part of an airplane engine.
The spacious kitchen features vintage Holophane light fixtures, an English walnut trestle table and galvanized metal schoolhouse chairs.
A guest room is furnished with vintage shoeshine chairs and an Elizabeth Eakins cotton rug.
A collection of wooden sieves from Indiana and an industrial frame fitted as a mirror hang on the walls of a guest room.
Vintage twin beds from a convent are dressed in Pendleton blankets in a second guest room. The 1950s Prouvé-inspired desk and chair set in the corner is Italian. A Paul Edmunds linocut on paper hangs on the far wall.
Aviation blueprints from the 1930s and ’40s line Bobbie’s second-floor office, which features a Huniford Collection Renwick sofa in a Maharam blue linen and an antique partners desk from R. E. Steele.
A 1970s triangular work by an unknown artist and a large canvas by Sheila Isham hang in the master bedroom.
