Decorator Tom Fallon’s Carpenter Gothic Cottage on Shelter Island is a Storyteller’s Dream

It was 1981, and Tom Fallon had no intention of buying a new house. A designer and creative brand executive who worked with Bill Blass for 20 years before branching out on his own, Fallon had received an invitation from industry pal Joanne Creveling to visit her house on Shelter Island one weekend. He and Creveling had met in the 1960s, when Fallon was working at Bergdorf Goodman as Halston’s assistant and Creveling was beginning her stellar career as a publicist.

A Shelter Island Victorian Beauty

When Joanne Creveling and her husband Frank Lookstein bought their 1890 Queen Anne cottage in 1979, they knew they wanted to stick to a singular style credo in order to create their perfect summer home.

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It Takes Two

Q&A with garden designer Lisa Stamm and her husband, architect Dale Booher, of The Homestead Garden Design on Shelter Island.