Studio Tack updates 1950s Sound View resort on Lengthy Island’s waterfront

Brooklyn agency Studio Tack has revamped a mid-century motel on the North Fork of Lengthy Island to incorporate cabin-like bedrooms and a restaurant that feels “like a ferry crossing the sound”.

Accomplished in 1953, the waterfront Sound View property is situated on a personal seashore within the city of Greenport, lower than 200 kilometres from New York Metropolis.

Studio Tack redesigned the resort’s visitor rooms, restaurant, piano bar and foyer lounge with refined nods to a conventional nautical aesthetic – a reference to Greenport’s boating and fishing heritage – in addition to New England modernist structure.

Since Sound View overhangs the shoreline, few modifications could possibly be made to the outside.

“Present zoning rules would by no means let these buildings be constructed so near the shore in trendy instances,” lead mission designer Tiffany Rattray advised Dezeen.

“This meant that any exterior work needed to be fastidiously thought-about, which was extraordinarily limiting.”

Contained in the foyer is a mix of , semi-custom and classic items that purpose to “soften the novelty of the house”, like rewired lighting fixtures from Upstate New York and porcelain shades made by a neighborhood ceramicist.

For the resort’s restaurant, The Halyard, Studio Tack employed a easy palette of white-painted partitions and pale oak flooring to make the water view the focus.

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The shapes of the chandeliers and sconces reference the Fresnel lenses usually present in lighthouses.

“In the long run, we wished to have a good time the horizon line and expanse of water, making the restaurant really feel like a ferry crossing the sound,” Rattray mentioned.

The group preserved the Piano Bar’s crimson vinyl banquettes and mahogany bar, whereas upgrading the house with navy beadboard ceiling panels, painted hardwood flooring, and a hand-painted seascape mural.

A non-public eating room known as The Library sits simply off the foyer lounge with wicker furnishings, merlot painted partitions, and classic art work hand sourced from the Brimfield Vintage Market in Massachusetts.

All of Sound View’s 55 visitor rooms overlook the Lengthy Island Sound with personal or boardwalk-style out of doors decks. Partitions are lined with cedar wooden shiplap, and a mixture of recycled rubber and cork varieties the flooring.

“We wanted a fabric that was sturdy sufficient to resist fixed foot visitors from the seashore immediately indoors,” mentioned Rattray.

“Not solely did this materials work for us functionally, the granular combine of colors reminded us of the feel and colouration of sand.”

Almost all of the visitor room furnishings and lighting was customized by Brooklyn-based furnishings fabricator Uhuru Design.

As a substitute of the extra anticipated nautical blues, Studio Tack threaded pops of burgundy all through the property. In collaboration with Greenport-based awning and sail fabricator WM J Mills & Co, a burgundy cloth was developed for the outside awnings above the foyer and entrance to The Halyard, in addition to the bespoke out of doors and pool furnishings.

Based in 2012, Studio Tack has given new life to a variety of properties courting again to the center of the 20th century. Others embody a mid-century motel in Wyoming, an outdated motor lodge in New York’s Catskills and a rundown resort in California.

Pictures is by Learn McKendree.