The House of Our Dreams Is for Sale in East Hampton, New York
Shingle-style homes are great and all, but if we were to move to East Hampton, New York, we're living in only one house: this fantastical property designed by famous artists Madeline Gins and the single-named Arakawa in 2008. This isn't random speculation, by the way. The home, called Bioscleave House, is currently on the market for $1.495 million.
Get this: There are 52 different colors found in this home. The door is a vivid tangerine hue. One window frame is cherry red, another is lime green. A single wall in the bathroom is covered in blocks of pink, white, blue, and yellow—and every other vertical surface in the house has the same treatment, just with different colors. Real estate company Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons calls it a "singular, rare masterwork" on the listing, as well as "the only house [Arakawa and Madeline] designed and built to test 50 years of research through this experimental, provocative laboratory." Imagine telling people you live in a place designed by these artists, whose work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim. Casual.
The 2,700-square-foot residence is made up of four rectangular rooms—two bedrooms, a bathroom, and an office—that jut out from a central, circular living space, which houses a sunken kitchen and dining area, both rimmed in bright green. They all share the same bumpy, Mars-like floor, made of Japanese packed earth. "Arakawa and Gins designated Bioscleave House as an 'interactive laboratory of everyday life' whose terrain and walls are deliberately realized in unexpected ways to keep a person ‘tentative’ so that they must actively negotiate even the simplest tasks," says the Reversible Destiny Foundation, an organization the artists founded, on its site. Fittingly, the home has a second name, Lifespan Extending Villa. Think of it this way: You can stop slogging through crossword puzzles and simply live life in this house to keep your brain challenged.
There's more. Buy Bioscleave House and you'll actually get two homes—there's another residence on the property, attached by a corridor. The simple A-frame, built in the ’60s by architect Carl Koch, includes two more bedrooms, one-and-a-half baths, and a full basement. On top of that, all the fun furnishings, like the floating tub and wavy lounge chairs, come with your purchase. We predict a bidding war in our future.
