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Fire Island Modernist

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The seductive angles of architect Horace Gifford's beach homes.

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Fire Island wouldn't be the idyllic haven we know today if it weren't for Horace Gifford, a young, often overlooked architect from Florida who designed 78 stunning beach houses off its boardwalks between 1961 and 1980. In Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction (Metropolis Books), a new monograph bursting with inspiring drawings and vintage photographs, author and architect Christopher Rawlins remembers this precocious (and handsome) talent who turned the south shores of Long Island into a modernist's dream.

Photos courtesy of Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Above: Burge Pavilion, Fire Island Pines, N.Y., 1965,(c)Horace Gifford

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Kauth House, Fair Harbor, N.Y., 1964, (c)Michael Weber

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Cashel House, Fire Island Pines, N.Y., 1969, (c)Michael Weber

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Luck House, Bridgehampton, N.Y., 1967, (c)Horace Gifford

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