2002
The economy is still struggling, but the Hamptons are starting to come alive again: A magazine is born. The very first cover of HC&G, a photograph of two freshly cut peonies, couldn’t be simpler; they make a fitting complement to a story inside on interior designer John Barman’s garden.
2002
Nature also finds its way into a photo shoot featuring Philippe Starck’s now legendary Ghost chairs for Kartell.
2002
At their Sag Harbor home, garden designer Ricks Lee and antiques dealer Berns Fry show off a few of their favorite things.
2003
Longtime HC&G contributor Bärbel Miebach snaps this cover shot of an inviting staircase in a Shinnecock Bay residence decorated by Betty Wasserman; in that same issue, Deeds & Don’ts ponders whether Flanders is “the next place.”
2003
An elegant elk skull graces a chimney at Eleanora Kennedy’s stylish oceanfront home.
2004
HC&G keeps getting fatter, and the mood in the Hamptons is festive, as evidenced by this Fourth of July cover shot. Super Tuscans are the wine on everyone’s lips, and then editor in chief Newell Turner writes about the benefits of solar panels.
2004
A copper beech tree strikes a commanding presence at a Bridgehampton home decorated by Thomas O’Brien.
2004
An alluring pool house appears on a tour of gardens created by landscape architect Edmund Hollander.
“Sometimes a particularly monstrous house will be built, and my wife will say, ‘Can’t you get that gig, and make it go away?’”
—Edmund Hollander, landscape architect, June 2004
2005
HC&G’s staff makes a splash with a fresh spin on outdoor furniture.
2005
Mid-century modern Scandinavian pieces are at their apogee, displayed most handsomely in a home owned by art-world couple Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner.
2005
Corian countertops are all the rage in new kitchen and bath design, and the whimsical, surprisingly varied white picket fences of Sag Harbor get their own eight-page feature story.
2006
Cover girl Lisa Perry, owner of the eponymous (now defunct) Sag Harbor shop, brings funky neo-Pucci panache to everything she touches, including her chic home in Noyac.
2006
A. M. Homes, Paul Goldberger and Robert Wilson write compelling essays about “the Hamptons of the future,” real estate broker Jack Pearson gives a showing of his own home in Water Mill
“You have to be true to your vision, no matter what other people say.””
—Donna Karan, fashion designer, August 2005
2006
Cover girl Lisa Perry, owner of the eponymous (now defunct) Sag Harbor shop, brings funky neo-Pucci panache to everything she touches, including her chic home in Noyac.
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2006
The “green” movement is in full force—that’s Charlie Marder on his tractor, extolling the benefits of composting.
2007
The “Water Issue” celebrates inspiring home design in all areas of the Hamptons—from ponds and bays to the ocean—along with a roundup of great fittings for the kitchen and bath.
2007
Decorator Larry Laslo gets cheeky for the camera.
2007
Bamboo motifs come back big, as with this red-lacquered Chinoiserie dining chair.
2007
Designers Geoffrey Ross and John Dransfield leave no corner untouched in their stunning Amagansett digs.
2008
A nation obsessed with eating evolves into a country of organic acolytes, Slow Food purists and farmstand fanatics. HC&G follows suit with a colorful cover devoted to entertaining.
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2008
Multitalented decorator Moises Esquenazi snaps the photos for a story on his sister’s house (the artwork is his, too).
2008
A glorious eight-page feature on Amagansett’s Quail Hill Farm, site of the annual “At the Common Table” dinner.
2008
Carol Ryan and Ed Victor settle into a 17th-century barn that they had transplanted from England to the Hamptons – not so out of place, come to think of it.
2009
A fitting tribute to Charles Gwathmey, the September cover features the iconic 1967 home the late architect built for his parents, now a monument to the brilliance and promise that have always characterized the Hamptons.
2009
Another architectural triumph, the Julian and Barbara Neski–designed guesthouse owned by Jay and Anne Hearst McInerney, gets a colorful makeover (and Michael Taylor headboards) courtesy of designer Sandi Berman.
2009
A dining room by the never shy William Diamond and Anthony Baratta rounds out a splashy retrospective of the team’s work.
“Whatever the home’s style, elegant or not, it’s still a beach house. It should be fun.
—William Diamond, decorator, September 2009
2010
The recession’s been a doozy, but that doesn’t deter the pursuit of all things decorative—or the energy of this bright red Vespa, parked in front of a stylish Hamptons cottage.
2010
Nora Sheehan, a longtime creative director for a host of decorating and lifestyle magazines, practices what she preaches at home in Sag Harbor.
2010
Designer Ann Pyne of McMillen Inc., America’s oldest decorating firm, proves that everything looks brand new again.
2010
The men of the Hampton Lady head out to sea, in search of discovery.
