In a city in which historical preservation is a driving force of behavior, it is not a low performance that Peter Kahng has designed his home to meet the necessary regulations and at the same time give real charm. His residence from SAG Harbor is a tribute to the maritime bones of the village and is located in a municipality that includes its respected foundation.
“I built this house in a historic district from scratch and wanted to learn the entire construction process,” said Kahng. “It was important to me that it was important to me. Many houses in this area are broken down into smaller rooms, so I built the kitchen and living area more for life and an open space. By building something new, we were able to have the rooms more spacious and make sense.”
Kahng is an art lover who is proud of his home and is resonance with a sincere passion for culture and design. The property is designed with its own instinct and its own vision and is suitable for a lively canvas for art that speaks for the room. With strong affiliations to institutions that belong to Whitney, Guggenheim and Moma, while he also completed a final course in Stanford on the subject of contemporary art, his love for the industry is clearly a deeply rooted part of his being.
Solid brass hardware is mostly part of the first floor, including the bathroom, and brings a desired accent.
“I tried to find the right level of detail and quality for what I wanted to do,” said Kahng. “I wanted them to be a little aged and patina and contribute to conveying everything a feeling of the place.”
With a trajectory to make the house comfortable and reserved, the convenience was at the top of the design execution. The general aesthetics mixes genres and styles of the style in the entire interior and leads to a natural coordination of these elements.
A farm table adorns the open kitchen next to the central living area, in which two restoration hardware sofas dress up in a room in which the eye for art and the garden and the inviting pool is attracted. A large photo is the opposing view of the seductive lawn, a family portrait of LA photographer Buck Ellison from a series called “Christmas Card”. Ellison led the series with the idea of wealthy families and how they live with the various coatings of their lives. It is a fascinating piece with which the viewer can involve the internal subtleties of different entities.
Laurel window seats were installed, which classically frame the central fireplace, while white V-freen lacquer lid are a respectable and identified touch that gives the first floor a density of a kinesthetic perception.
Since the property is centrally located, the correct navigation of the privacy was of crucial importance in order to maintain calm life. Half window shops and café curtains were installed throughout the first floor, so that sunlight and outdoor visibility are permitted when maintaining seclusion.
Kahng's office is an inviting room with wallpaper from Quercus & Co., accompanied by a semi -glossed ceiling, which is married to a “Chiswell Blue” by Benjamin Moore with a high gloss. A work by Mika Tajima from her “negative entropy” series hangs with gentle ease and brings a complementary color contrast. Khang dissected the work and explained: “In this series, she records the soundwaves from various server farms and translated them into a visual picture. The pictures are then sent to a Jaquard web chair to create the final wall carpet.
The bathroom on the first floor has a complicated black and white tile motif with black equipment that ensures a dominant presence. With a tappered ceiling that was inspired by the ceilings inspired by the can ceilings in New York City, there is a hint of connection to his other stamping place.
A striking greeting at the top of the stairs is a considerable work by the German abstract photographer Wolfgang Tillman from his “Silver” series. Tillmans has developed a fascinating technique that manipulated and pulls images through printer that create a strip effect before they are digitized and then print them on an aluminum substrate.
“I love that Tillmans crosses the limits of photography in an age in which everyone is now a photographer because of Instagram,” said Kahng.
The young artist Kyle Dunn is the main attraction in the main bedroom. Kahng comments on the play: “The way he makes figures and painting of light is really interesting. With it he is also a sculptor, you get a three -dimensional aspect.”
The three bedrooms that adorn the second floor divide up to be their own calming habitat. Since the summer guests are part of the Kahng social schedule, the rooms are suitable for the true Hampton's style with neutral and warm textures.
Kahng completed our conversation and commented on his love for the Hamptons and his home and said: “I love to have a community out here and to be able to entertain it properly, because I don't do that so much in the city. The most interesting thing was that the backyard was spent all the time, so it was a big change and it feels that it has this space.”