Farmhouse meets Bauhaus
Happenstance leads one couple to a Greenwich Home that showcases its natural surroundings.
After several years of looking, a Greenwich couple finally found the perfect home. And it’s all thanks to a flat tire.
The pair was captivated by some renderings they found online for a planned housing development in town. “It was Covid, we were stuck at home, so we decided to take a drive and look at it,” says the wife, an artist with two grown daughters. When they arrived, they found developer Doron Sabag of SBP Homes waiting for a couple of potential buyers from New York. Unaware that the buyers had been waylaid by a flat tire, and initially mistaking the Greenwich pair for them, Sabag showed the couple the property and plans. They were so enthusiastic, they agreed to purchase it on the spot.
Each of the six houses in the twenty-four-acre development was designed by a different firm to reflect the diversity of Greenwich’s architecture. “I didn’t want one architect to design all six houses because, at the end of the day, they would end up looking the same,” Sabag says.
The house the couple chose was designed by Austin Patterson Disston Architecture & Design. Wrapped in creamy white shingles, with pitched roofs that alternate with expansive grids of glass, it is a sublime distillation of farmhouse and Bauhaus—at once both familiar and fresh. “Our firm calls it ‘modern agrarian,’ says architect Stuart Disston. “It’s a modern house, but it has traditional gables, so it fits in with the New England setting.”
Each wing of the U-shaped house is one-room deep, allowing sunlight and views to penetrate from several directions. “When I was indoors,I really wanted to feel the outdoors,” says the wife. Charcoal-colored aluminum-framed doors and windows stretch from floor to ceiling, maximizing views of the landscaped central patio and of the bucolic grounds mostly designed by Sabag. “Sometimes people think I build houses just so I can plant them,” he concedes with a laugh.
DEVELOPER & BUILDER: SBP Homes
ARCHITECTURE: Austin Patterson Disston Architecture & Design
INTERIOR DESIGN: SBP Homes, Nima Design, RM Studio
LANDSCAPE DESIGN: SBP Homes, William Kenny Associates
Text by Fred Albert
Photography by Read Mc Kendree
