The Krakoffs worked with Thomas Phifer and Partners to build a modern home that consists of three raised glass pavilions.
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Fashion designer and creative director Reed Krakoff and his interior designer wife Delphine love a good house project — they’ve gut renovated an Upper East Side townhouse, Jackie Kennedy’s childhood East Hampton mansion, and the New Canaan estate owned by late copper heiress Huguette Clark. Each time, shortly after making the place absolutely magnificent, they move on. Just don’t call Krakoff a house flipper: “I despise that word,” he once told the Wall Street Journal. “Design is our life.” And so it is with 55 Dune Road in Amagansett, a contemporary beachfront house the couple spent five years building and, two years after finishing the job, have put on the market for $49.5 million.
Reed Krakoff, the former Coach and Tiffany & Co. designer, along with his own eponymous label, is now the creative chairman of John Hardy.
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The Krakoffs were already scouting for beachfront land for their next house project when they listed Lasata, the old Bouvier estate where Kennedy-Onassis spent her summers, for $53.99 million in 2016. (It eventually sold to Tom Ford, 7 years later, for a barely discounted $52 million.) At the time, they told the Wall Street Journal that they were spending a lot of their weekends at their New Canaan estate, even as they admitted they were looking for land to do this project. A few years later, they brought on New York architects Thomas Phifer and Partners to do a very modern house involving three glass volumes raised on a concrete platform and connected by a concrete passageway. Ocean vistas, as well as those of native pine, bayberry and beach plum that surround the house, abound. A raised path leads directly to more than 200 feet of waterfront.
The house at 55 Dunes Lane consists of three raised glass pavilions on a concrete platform connected by a concrete passageway. A raised path leads to 200 feet of ocean frontage.
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“The house is very controlled and very hard in the middle of an environment that’s completely the opposite. The tension between the two was the idea, ” Reed told Sotheby’s in 2024. The luxury company noted the house was the “new backdrop for their trove of contemporary blue-chip treasures”: Besides an on-site painting made by Richard Long, it mentions a cast glass table by Martin Szekely, hand-carved Shaker chairs, a Pierre Jeanneret dining table, and a Georges Jouve low table with a terracotta top. Also inside: wheel-thrown plates and bowls made by Krakoff himself, who took up pottery at their Connecticut place during the pandemic. There’s also, though it feels mundane to mention it, a Gunite pool, seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, an open kitchen with dual islands, and a dining room, totaling 7,200 square feet.
The expansive floor-to-ceiling glass windows show views of the landscape as well as the gunite pool on the property.
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Photo: Out East
The Krakoffs’ Upper East Side townhouse, which sold to Related’s Jeff Blau for $51 million in 2014 (apparently $50 million is something of a magic number for the couple), was similarly lavish, full of luxurious finishes and pedigreed decor. A 2011 New Yorker profile described the living room as having “an Alexander Calder mobile floating above the mantelpiece, a massive black Louise Nevelson sculpture along one wall, a bronze Jean Arp parked on an end table, and, underfoot, two-hundred-year-old floorboards from France.” The ground-floor bathroom, meanwhile, was “covered entirely in golden snakeskin and contains a spheroid toilet more stunning than anything the vast majority of the population will ever own.”
It’s unclear why the couple is selling their Amagansett estate — a call and email to Hedgerow Exclusive, the listing brokerage, were unanswered as of press time. The couple also put their Connecticut estate on the market last year, asking $25.5 million (it’s still for sale at the same price — the Krakoffs typically hold out for their number, and usually get something very close to it). If the past is any indication, they’re probably already looking at — or buying — something else.
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