Maxxed out

Bold contemporary color and resort-style living make for the ultimate Greenwich home.

Tell us about the house and your collaboration.
Doron Sabag: We love working with Amy.
Amy Aidinis Hirsch: It’s a great collaboration. The architecture is modern, but for as big as it is, it feels intimate in so many spaces. I think that has to do with the personality of the interiors as well.
DS: You know how some people think that the exterior of the house— which I’d call a modern barn—should dictate the interior of the house? I don’t believe that the interior of the house is a modern barn interior. I would almost call it Hollywood glam.
AAH: There are bits of organic components in there, but there’s such a pizazz, as well, with all the color. I love the unexpected complement from the outside. It’s completely different in many ways, and a lot of that has to do with the scale and vastness. I think the clients are spunky, youthful, vibrant. They wanted their house to be a place where people come together. The expanse of the house allowed us to create these destination and zones.
DS: And for a modern barn, you’d think the interiors would be more neutral. This one is very elegant and chic. I think it’s more color than you’ve ever done, Amy.
AAH: I would say it’s certainly adventurous. It’s a confidence that most clients don’t have; they don’t usually see that vision. I also think the neutrality of the kitchen, and how it springs into all these other spaces, especially the bar, allows the vibrance to happen. The beauty about having a contemporary interior architecture is being able to do anything you want with it.

There is so much glass, opening up the house to the outside.
DS: The nature of a modern barn includes the expansive glass to bring the outdoors in and vice versa. We wanted the rooms to be filled with light, and this house has east, south and west exposures. We have an amazing covered porch that Amy furnished in a way that created another huge room. In all of our projects, we have one outdoor space with the fireplace, heaters in the ceiling, music, TV. You can live outside, in the houses we design (in the summer). It’s almost like it’s not a Greenwich house.
AAH: It feels Southampton-y, in a way.