In honour of Pride Month 2022, we celebrate New York beach house modernist Horace Gifford’s hedonist hideaways, revisiting a story from the Wallpaper* archives, which first appeared in July...
In honour of Pride Month 2022, we celebrate New York beach house modernist Horace Gifford’s hedonist hideaways, revisiting a story from the Wallpaper* archives, which first appeared in July 2013
In fact, most of Gifford’s clients were already out of the closet – or as out as they could be in the 1960s and 1970s – as members of a social set that was transforming Fire Island into a gay paradise. But if Gifford provided one of them with 20 closets, it was because his floorplan required 20 wooden piers, part of an astonishingly elegant composition derived in part from Louis Kahn. It wasn’t about the closet space.
Inside the houses, Gordon continues, ‘hide-and-seek expanses of glass, skylights, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, prurient lines of sight, sunken living rooms and lurid conversation pits turned Gifford’s houses into Kabukiesque stage sets for concealment and exposure, light and shadow, inviting voyeuristic tendencies’. One obvious truth: his clients, who for the most part didn’t have children, could allow him to be experimental with living arrangements.
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