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This Saturday night, you could win a classic mid-century modern Herman Miller chair and at the same time help raise funds to save from demolition a classic mid-century modern beach house by Long Island architect Andrew Michael Geller.my previous postings on the pearlroth house. thanks to google news alert i received this short notice cry for help. i cant believe the pearlroth estate (always with the threat of immediately pending demolition!), please read on, its a horror story. save the
Design Within Reach Studio at 30 Park Place in East Hampton will host a silent auction and raffles from 7 to 9 p.m. to raise the money needed to move the acclaimed Pearlroth House from 615 Dune Rd. in Westhampton Beach to public land five miles farther east on Triton Beach. Built in 1959, its double-diamond shape has been compared to a box kite and a square brassiere, and is widely acclaimed by architects, critics and historians as an influential example of the Hamptons' innovative and witty - and fast disappearing - post-World War II beach house architecture.
The heirs to the Pearlroth House will demolish it unless it can be moved before the spring building season. Current regulations would make it impossible to renovate it as a dwelling without substantially changing it, and its owner offered to donate the 600-square-foot house to the architect's grandson, filmmaker and historian Jake Gorst. He and fellow preservationists say they'll need about $200,000 to relocate and restore the structure, which they hope will house a museum of mid-century architecture at its new site.
For more information about the Saturday fundraiser, which will feature a slide presentation, wine and cheese, as well as the silent auction - and to learn how to make a donation - call Gorst at 631-651-9939.