Quimby Lane House

Adjaye Associates was commissioned to design a house and a pool house for a private client in Bridgehampton. The challenge was to inherit the unfinished existing house, finish it and add a poolhouse, a petanque court, and a guesthouse to it. The scope also entailed designing the interiors, which introduced a number of custom furniture for the house and became a testing ground for Adjaye Associates’ interior department and a precursor to future interior projects.

I lead the interiors team, the furniture design, development and production, and also took part in developing the construction set of the various parts of the project.

The entire project comprised of the renovation of the existing house, the reconstruction of the guesthouse, the addition of the new poolhouse, and the introduction of a petanque court. These different structures were fused through the introduction of the timber trellis, creating a unified whole within the property.

The timber trellis, wrapping around the existing house, connects the different programmatic aspects on site together and ends at the poolhouse, at the tip of the side, overlooking the river. The rhythm and structure of the trellis is echoed in the poolhouse, a leitmotif changing in scale and looking back onto the entirety of the site.

Project: Quimby Lane House

Typology: Residential

Location: Bridgehampton

Year: 2016-2019

Status: Completed

Client: Private client

Team: Clara Aramburu, Nazanin Naeini