Iconic model, muse of photographer Richard Avedon, editor, television producer, and painter: Chinese-born Portuguese-American China Machado, who passed away in 2016, was a Hamptons and fashion world fixture. And now her 1960s North Haven home—where she and her second husband, Riccardo Rosa, lived since 1994—is on the market for $8.5 million with Rima Mardoyan Smyth of Douglas Elliman, Beate Moore of Sotheby’s International Realty, and Mala Sander of Corcoran.The 3,300-square-foot shingle-style residence, on nearly an acre of land overlooking both Noyack Bay and Polles Creek, features four bedrooms and several wall murals painted by Machado, plus a detached garage that includes a guest apartment.
This article appears in the June 2018 issue of HC&G (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens).