The Story Behind This Modernist House Has as Many Twists and Turns as Its Architecture

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The Hamptons home came to be with 22 architect interviews, a scrapped design plan and an untimely death

By: Fred A. BernsteinAug. 24, 2023 11:30 am ET

Blue Dream, overlooking the ocean in East Hampton, N.Y., has precedents in such earlier buildings as Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy Airport, but it’s unique in that its ground floor rises and falls with the dunes. IWAN BAAN

When it came to her houses, Julia Reyes Taubman, a Detroit-based philanthropist, photographer and collector, followed her gut, however edgy the results. “She had a fantastically educated but also madcap eye,” says Michael Lewis, the Paris-based interior designer who worked with her on several homes. Julie—as she was widely known—“never chose the obvious thing.”

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