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Seven Maples, Estate of the Day

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Today's home on 1.9 acres in New York's Southampton Village began life as a gatehouse to The Dolphins, one of the biggest estates in the area. Newsday's Real LI reported that the house was expanded into a summer home when the land was subdivided about 40 years ago and is now a comfortable year-round home with easy access to the ocean and to the Meadow Club. Curbed Hamptons says that the home's owner was once the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, but is "now chairman of a German telecommunications company." The 2,900-square-foot "cottage" has five bedrooms and the Architectural Review Board has also approved plans for a 10,000-square-foot house, pool and tennis court. It is listed for $10.4 million with Saunders & Associates.

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Historic Hamptons Site Listed For $81.5 Million

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Filed under: Real Estate Developments

A massive swath of land in Southampton, New York just hit the market for $81.5 million. The Olde Towne Association has unveiled its completed 50-acre historic site. The site includes the largest mature tree move in history and offers seven building parcels for sale for a total $81.5 million, the largest land offering in Southampton Village. The four acre individual lots are available from $10.5 to $13.5 million dollars, some with second floor pond and ocean views.

Andrew Saunders of Saunders & Associates is the listing real estate broker and calls the area one of the "most rarified settings in the Hamptons."

The property is the site of the first English settlement in New York and developer Bob Gianos, founder and president of East End Properties LLC is only the seventh titled owner in 370 years. He has created a total of 10 buildable parcels with a central tree-lined green area of open space, a nature preserve at one end and open meadows at the other, a total of over a third of the space of the entire property. A separate set of roads enter from the rear of each parcel for construction and service. Gianos donated 5.5 acres to the adjacent Fowler Nature Preserve and partnered with the Community Preservation Fund to create a separate park across the street.

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RSVIP: Parrish Museum Honors Beth DeWoody, a Latter Day "Peggy Guggenheim"

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Unlike the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, Manhattan real estate family scion, Beth Rudin DeWoody may not have rebuilt a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, where lions once roamed, and Jackson Pollock didn't urinate in her fireplace, but DeWoody has packed three sizable domiciles from Southamton, New York to West Palm Beach, Florida and likely a great deal of storage with the quirky highlights of contemporary art.

On July 10, DeWoody and the world famous painter Ross Bleckner were honored at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, during the annual Parrish Midsummer fete.

"She's so open-minded," said Carlton DeWoody, Beth's son, like his father, Beth's first husband Jim DeWoody, a gifted artist. "That had a big impact on me growing up."

At the entrance to DeWoody's Southampton cottage, a key site in the original Southampton Art Colony, hangs a deer trophy head in an S&M-style leather hood that zips up the side. Lift a small magnifying glass on a book, as Luxist did on a previous visit, and a tiny man magically appears as a holograph, projected in 3-D.

"Beth is my partner in crime," offered designer Richard Mishaan with gusto, "my personal Auntie Mame. She has educated me, guided me into buying some of the best pieces I have, like a Peter Dayton surfboard last week."

"She's the Peggy Guggenheim of our time," pronounced Debbie Bancroft, chair of the tony Southampton society benefit, sporting a dress made with python skins for Calypso. "Everyone loves Beth and Ross . . . and there is nothing like having beloved honorees."

"She is the most welcoming person, with the most eclectic taste in friends, art, and furniture," added artful party photographer Patrick McMullan.

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Balcastle, Estate of the Day

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Today's estate of the day is a real treat. Balcastle is like its name suggests, castle-like, a showcase of American Gothic Revival built by craftsman and designer J. Edward Elliston in 1911. It commands a .43 acre plot in New York's Southampton Village and is located near beaches, shops and restaurants. As you might expect, it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Much credit needs to be given to the current owner, architect and designer, William Sofield. Sofield, who as the NY Times reports, is behind the luxe-erotic look of Tom Ford's stores, has done a masterful restoration. The home is completely, fantastically livable while not losing a bit of its original charm. Sofield, who also reportedly renovated one of Douglas Fairbanks' old properties in Los Angeles, seems to understand that sense of dreamy, faux-historical nostalgia that gripped American design at that time period. It has unusually high ceilings and large windows with hand-carved mullions and traceries. A spiral staircase in the main tower leads to a master's chamber with cobbled floors, an antique soaking tub, wood burning fireplace and private roof terrace. Particularly notable is the gazebo which overlooks the pool and gardens. The faceted glass rotunda serves as pool house, informal garden room and the most fabulous guest quarters ever. This property is listed at $4.25 million.

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Lennegan & Marantz Opens in Southampton

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Lennegan & Marantz Opens Design Store in Southampton, N.Y.

Lennegan & Marantz, a design resource that specializes in the best of English craftsmanship, has opened a beautiful new 3,000 sq. ft. showroom in the Village of Southampton, New York.

Founded by Joanna Bobrowicz, Lennegan & Marantz specializes in handmade English upholstery, with an eclectic mix of European and American antiques, vintage one of a kind pieces and home furnishings. The modern mix strikes a balance to create interiors of subtle yet luxurious comfort. Simple, cool linens, mohair velvets, leather and a smattering of vintage fabrics are used throughout the furniture collections. In addition, Lennegan & Marantz offers an assortment of Belgian linens and contemporary art.

The Southampton showroom also represents Bennison Fabrics, the pre-eminent English company specializing in hand-printed linens based on 18th and 19th century English and French document textiles.

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Bobrowicz's background includes eight years at George Smith, the iconic British luxury upholstered furniture brand known for its hand made designs and fabrics, where she was responsible for branding, including advertising campaigns, as well as the company's worldwide showrooms and new seasonal furniture collections. "At George Smith the focus was always on upholstery, says Bobrowicz. "At Lennegan & Marantz, we hope to offer a more complete interior environment to our prospective customer."

The desire to offer an exclusive design resource inspired Bobrowicz to launch Lennegan & Marantz.

"We researched various design archives to present an edited collection of sofas and chairs reflecting the changing tastes and styles of today's interiors" says Bobrowicz, who moved to New York from the United Kingdom in 2008. "Upholstery is available from the floor or to order, with sofas starting at $6,185 for a 6' sofa in Belgian linen, and we are also offering an in house interior design service for clients wishing to explore the Lennegan & Marantz lifestyle.

Lennegan & Marantz is located at 44 Main Street in Southampton, N.Y. For more information, call (631) 899-4535.

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Tate's Bake Shop Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best Cookie

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Tate's Bake Shop is the winner of a Luxist Readers' Choice Award in the Best Cookie category.

This award will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever tasted the signature cookie of one of the country's leading independent bakers.

The company was founded by Kathleen King, who has been baking professionally since she was eleven. Born and raised on North Sea Farms in Southampton, she started to baking cookies to earn spending money. Packaged simply at first, Kings' cookies came in plastic bags with twist ties.

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Tate's Bake Shop's award-winning cookies.

The exterior of Tate's Bake Shop in Southampton, N.Y.

By the time King was in high school, she was baking 12-hours a day, and perfecting her thin, crisp, buttery and caramel tasting chocolate chip cookies. She was so successful, her baking put her through college: SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, New York. When King was 20, she opened her first bakery and within one year she had made a name for herself in the fashionable communities on the south fork of Long Island.

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Tate's Bake Shop: Southampton's Award-Winning Cookies

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Tate's Bake Shop is a nominee for a Luxist Readers' Choice Award in the Best Cookie category.

This nomination will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever tasted the signature cookie of one of the country's leading independent bakers.

The company was founded by Kathleen King, who has been baking professionally since she was eleven. Born and raised on North Sea Farms in Southampton, she started to baking cookies to earn spending money. Packaged simply at first, Kings' cookies came in plastic bags with twist ties.

Gallery: More from Tate's Bake Shop

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The Village Latch Inn Up For Sale

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Filed under: Estates, Luxury Travel & Hotels

If you'd like to join Richard Gere in the New York inn business here's your chance. As Newsday's Real LI reports the Village Latch Inn in Southampton just went on the market for $24.75 million. One family has owned the five-acre property for decades. The complex includes a number of outbuildings-- Terry House, the Potting Shed, Homestead East and Homestead West among others, which were originally a part of the adjacent Merrill Lynch estate. The grounds are also home to a Victorian greenhouse, private villas, a pool, tennis courts and more.

According to the listing there are 67 uniquely decorated rooms, some with fireplaces, balconies or decks. It's a Hamptons plum partly because pre-existing zoning conditions allow for a variety of possibilities including future development. Or you could just keep it all to yourself and create your own family compound.

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Jack Nicholson Slept Here, Now You Can Too

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The latest in our ongoing series of Hamptons rentals in another with celebrity attachments boasted in the listing. This beachfront home in Southampton was rented by Jack Nicholson while filming the movie "Something's Gotta Give." As the listing proclaims in capital letters, Jack Nicholson slept here. The five-bedroom contemporary beach house includes a great room with a fireplace, a dining room with an ocean view and a master suite that has a sauna and decks overlooking the water. Outside there is a heated pool and a walkway which takes you to the beach. It is listed at $400,000 for the entire season of Memorial Day to Labor Day.

(via Real LI)

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Summer Like Ramona Singer

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

If the Hilton summer home was a bit pricey for your Hamptons summer you can pick up another spot with a bit of celebrity provenance. Cityfile dishes that Ramona Singer who is part of the cast of "The Real Housewives of New York," and her husband Mario are putting their Southampton home up for rent this summer. The six-bedroom home includes a master suite with its own separate wing and private balcony. A formal dining room seats 12 and there is a large open family kitchen. The lower level includes a pool table and a 70-inch television. The property includes a bocce court, heated pool and a sunken tennis court. The full span from Memorial Day to Labor Day will cost you $295,000.

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John Paulson in Southampton, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

It's hard to feel sorry for the hedge fund managers. They not only have lavish New York apartments they also often have sprawling Hamptons vacation homes. Today we consider the case of John Paulson, founder of Paulson & Co. In January, he plunked $41.3 million for a Southampton estate known as Old Trees. Of course this meant selling his existing Southampton home. Paulson bought the home for $12.75 million in 2006 so when he put it on the market in April he priced it at $19.5 million, anticipating a tidy profit. No takers so in late August he dropped the price to $16.9 million. In October he finally got a nibble but he had a buyer with a signed contract walk away from the deal. Paulson really needs to unload this puppy so now it is down to $13.9 million which means he resigned himself to not making a huge profit on the sale. What do you get for your money? The 6,8000 square foot cottage has seven bedrooms and an enclosed pool with a sauna room. It is on three acres and has a private master suite with a sitting room and two separate baths and has a charming cottagey decor.

As the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties reminds us, on Thursday, Mr. Paulson testified on Capitol Hill at a closely watched hearing on whether hedge funds require more regulation.

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Best Hospitality in Bermuda: The Pompano Beach Club

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

It's hard to have a bad vacation in a place like Bermuda. The island is lovely, the people are friendly, and it's unlike any other place on earth. When traveling internationally, it's always a plus to stay somewhere with a warm, accessible staff. I've never been better accommodated than when I stayed at the Pompano Beach Club in Southampton, Bermuda.

The resort itself is made up of a few dozen oceanfront cottages along the most sparkling blue water you'll ever see. The Pompano has all the standard resort amenities, including a private beach, pools, game and fitness center, spa, and water excursions, but by far the greatest amenity is its dining room. Your breakfast and dinner each day are included in the price of your stay, and the food easily competes with most of the finest restaurants in America. The dress code is "smart-casual," meaning collared shirts for men and no jeans, t-shirts, or sandals. You will have your choice of three or four different items per course each evening on the resort's rotating five-course dinner menu. There are plenty of restaurants nearby if you choose to dine out, but why would you?

The staff is the friendliest I've ever encountered on any of my travels. Merv, the bartender, makes the best rum swizzle on the island -- it's a Bermudian staple.

Even though Bermuda is due east of the Carolinas, its climate is much nicer, tempered by the gulf stream. It can get uncomfortably hot and humid in the summer months, but spring and fall are lovely. Even in winter, temperatures rarely dip below the mid-50's, and the water is usually warm enough for a swim.

It's a tiny island -- only a few miles long -- but there's so much to do. Don't let Bermuda just be a short stop on your next cruise, like so many tourists do. This island is ideal for a nice long vacation, and the Pompano is the perfect place to spend that time.

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Southampton Sprawl, Estate of the Day

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Another tremendously expensive property has gone on the market in the Hamptons. Braden Keil's Gimme Shelter column in the NY Post reported on today's estate, a 12-bedroom home that is nearly 18,000 square feet. The property is owned by Juergen Friedrich, who ran the European division of Esprit sportswear and has spent a great deal of money updating the home, which was built in 1902 and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury. The country home sits on 9.11 acres that include old trees, flowering shrubs, evergreen perimeters, rose gardens. indoor pool, outdoor pool with pavilion, tennis court, paddle court, gymnasium, carriage house and a four-car garage. At nearly 3,000 square feet, the master bedroom suite is larger than many homes. What may hurt it on the real estate market is that it is not on the water. But if you can live without that, it's a pretty impressive property. It is listed at $67.5 million.

UPDATE: This home is now listed at $49.5 million.

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Halcyon's Luxury Helicopter Packages to the Hamptons

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wings

Premiere jet charter broker Halcyon is arranging luxury helicopter packages between New York City and the Hamptons this season via the purchase of a special flight club card. The trip, which can take up to four hours on the Long Island Expressway in typical summer traffic, is a mere 45 minutes by helicopter. The Halcyon coordinated flights offer high-speed premium helicopters with luxurious cabins -- Bell Jet Ranger, Long Ranger, Augusta or Eurocopter -- staffed with two pilots, and can accommodate up to four passengers. Their Southampton Flight Club Card costs $7,700 (plus fees) and includes two one-way transfers from NYC to East Hampton or vice versa. The East Hampton Flight Club Card costs $22,500 (plus fees) and includes six one-way transfers. With the purchase of a card you also get a bottle of champagne, a carton of strawberries and a Halcyon Jets' gift basket containing Keihl's sunscreen, Origins organic lip balm, a Ralph Lauren beach towel and a bottle of Evian Mineral Water Spray, so you're ready to hit the beach the moment you arrive.

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The Hamptons: Behind the Hedges & Beyond the Dunes

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Filed under: Estates, Books

In his preface to Jake Rajs' beautiful new book, Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons (Monacelli Press, $60), New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger notes the photographer "shows us a vision of the Hamptons at once beautiful and fragile, prosperous but not smug." No easy feat when it comes to portraying such a storied locale, and Rajs manages it magnificently. The book is divided into geographical sections of the South Fork: Westhampton, Quogue and Hampton Bays; Shinnecock and Southampton; Water Mill, Bridgehampton and Sagaponack; Sag Harbor and the Springs; East Hampton and Amagansett; and Montauk (or, as we like to call them: No Money, Old Money, New Money, Some Money, More Money and What Money?). Along the way he finds everything from privet hedges to pumpkin fields and fishermen to polo players. Pictured here is an imposing "cottage" on Southampton's fabled Gin Lane. The book won't be out for another couple of weeks, but you can pre-order it now on Amazon. Meanwhile see the gallery for a preview.

Gallery: Beyond the Dunes