In the Making: Linden Hill with Tom Kligerman

In the Making spotlights the architects, designers, and artisans using historical precedent to address contemporary challenges. Each episode is a deep dive into a select project, revealing the unique history, environment, and human ingenuity that shaped the design process.

In the second episode, architect Tom Kligerman tours a house that he and his firm designed in the Hamptons, on the East End of Long Island. "Linden Hill," named for the established trees on the property, draws inspiration from the shingle style houses built by prominent firms such as McKim, Mead & White in the 1880s, as well as from the surrounding homes in the neighborhood. Describing the historical precedents that influenced the design, Tom explains that the shingle style is a flexible architectural vocabulary, combining classical proportions with modernist sensibilities of scale and massing. Linden Hill is a grand, sculptural home, like the seaside "cottages" of the Gilded Age, but designed for contemporary living with abundant natural light filling the interior, a kitchen-centered layout for a modern lifestyle, and an elegant but restrained palette of colors and materials.

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