In the main room, a 1st century a.d. Roman leg sits on an iron table from a French flea market; the Louis XVI armchairs are from Philippe Vichot in Paris. Jakob did the drawing next to the daybed, another flea-market find.
Swedish dining chairs from Dienst & Dotter surround a Jakob-made table; the painting is by Jakob’s friend Mary Heilmann.
One of Jakob’s drawings rests on the mantel in a sitting area; the wall piece is by Robert Rauschenberg and the side table is by Marcel Breuer.
The bedroom in the “tower” addition, completed in 1986, includes an antique four-poster and an oil stick painting by Jakob.
The artist made the room’s work table; the cupboard is a find from upstate New York.
Furnishings in the guest room/library include a bed from a Paris flea market, a chair bought at Sotheby’s, and a Moroccan rug; the custom table is by Gary Anderson.
The sun-flooded master bath in the tower addition features a soaking tub and a pedestal sink.
Jakob’s collection of mixing bowls and pottery covers two tables in the kitchen; the pendant lamp is from Moss.
Antique funerary objects from Peru and a yellow peony from Jakob’s garden.
Artist and landscape designer Robert Jakob, photographed in the double hornbeam hedge on his four-acre property in Springs.
Jakob’s cottage dates from the 1940s.
A cluster of irises along one of the garden’s many paths.
Boxwood and a climbing rose commingle outside the doors to the main room.
A patch of Sweet Cicely.
A boxwood-lined path leads to a graceful pergola.
This article appears in the July-1 2013 issue of HC&G (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens).