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The master bedroom enjoys pride of place in most homes—typically larger and more generously appointed than the children’s quarters or guest accommodations. But as popular culture keeps reminding us, families today come in all shapes and sizes, and their residences often bear little resemblance to long-standing archetypes. Consider the ­Bridgehampton, New York, retreat conceived by the Manhattan architecture, interiors, and landscape firm Sawyer|Berson and New York decorator Randi Puccio of LRS Designs—the delightful weekend escape boasts not one master suite but four.

“Our firm has done many houses on Long Island, but this project was unique,” architect John Berson says of the 8,700-square-foot home, which is a short walk from the beach. The clients are, unusually, four adult relatives. “We genuinely love to be together, but we didn’t want to feel like we’re on top of one another,” explains one family member, summing up Sawyer|Berson’s challenge. “We wanted the house to be inviting and comfortably spacious but not so big that it felt overwhelming.”

To devise an eloquent rapprochement between proximity and distance, Berson and coprincipal Brian Sawyer drew inspiration for the architecture as well as the overall site design from the pinwheel floor plans of early-20th-century houses by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. “Every­thing radiates off a communal living room, which has glass walls on two sides and is sunken 18 inches below the rest of the house so it’s on grade with the lawns,” Sawyer says of the two-story dwelling. “The four private suites occupy various corners of the building, with their own particular connections to the garden and views. Everyone has room to breathe.”

Constructed on a long rectangular lot, the residence is approached through a glorious allée of London plane trees that runs along one side of the property and opens to a view of Sagg Pond, Bridgehampton’s most prominent geographic feature. Belying its considerable size, the house reads like a lean composition of interwoven modernist pavilions, clad inside and out with broad expanses of Jerusalem limestone, plantation mahogany, and American walnut. Boxwood hedges buttress the architecture’s rectilinear geometries and extend them into the landscape, and, in an inspiring bit of legerdemain, the tennis court is effectively camouflaged from view, tucked below grade between the sweeping lawn and the parterre. “We tried to take advantage of every good quality the site affords,” Sawyer says. That includes the creation of a roof deck offering a dazzling 360-degree panorama of the pond, the Atlantic Ocean, and the bewitching landscape Long Island’s East End is famous for. “We save that deck until the end of the house tour because it just doesn’t get any better,” says one of the owners.

The decor of the sun-filled social spaces and intimate private rooms harmoniously complements Sawyer|Berson’s work. “The midcentury inflection of the architecture guided the spirit and style of the furnishings,” notes Puccio, who has worked with the homeowners for years and thus came to the project with a good sense of what they like.

Among the distinctive pieces to win collective approval were a pair of vintage Paul McCobb brass stools installed in the den and the 1950s Nino Zoncada armchairs in the living room. “We picked things with clean lines, strong forms, and beautiful finishes,” the decorator says. She adds that the color palette is largely neutral in deference to the garden views as well as to the eye-catching artworks, a mix of sculptures and paintings that includes Sol LeWitt watercolors displayed in the entrance hall and, in a side garden, a Thomas Heatherwick aluminum sculpture.

Yet for all the soigné refinements, life here is about simple diversions. The clients are a very convivial bunch, Puccio explains, given to throwing informal parties and barbecues in the outdoor dining area near the pool or at the capacious tables set alongside the parterred vegetable and flower garden. When the residents are not playing tennis, they might be working out in the petite courtside gym pavilion. Or, if it’s a bit too chilly to swim, they’re likely to be relaxing in the breezy bliss of the screened porch off the kitchen or enjoying a cocktail and a soak in the poolside spa. “Everybody worked together to create something that brings us great joy,” one of the owners observes. “The house feels like it belongs to all of us, and to each of us.”

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