This year’s Bridgehampton Community Design Symposium, to be held on Thursday, August 2, at Marders in Bridgehampton, will be as engaging, thought provoking and stimulating as ever.
At the event, an extraordinary roster of local design talent discussing emerging trends and excellent design will begin by showing their most recent projects while elucidating their artistic vision and unique approach to their work on the East End.
In the soaring rustic space of the Silas Marder Gallery, architect Blaze Makoid, interior designer David Scott and landscape architect Jack deLashmet will bring to the stage three artistic disciplines that work independently, yet hand in hand.
With the Southampton Press Group’s design columnist Marshall Watson and Features Editor Dawn Watson as moderators, the Design Symposium will captivate attendees as it has in the past with its unusual perspective of investigating both interrelationships and striking differences between these art forms. Like no other event here in the Hamptons, this promises an exciting visual feast of remarkable work along with a window into the minds of the East End’s great emerging talents as they showcase their art and engage each other in a compare and contrast conversation.
Mr. Makoid, a practicing architect since graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, has received numerous architectural awards for his work, including the Boston Society of Architects First Citation and the Philadelphia American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence. His passion is modern design and his work has been seen in Architecture magazine, the New York Times and Hamptons Cottages Gardens.
The architect’s work is distinctively planar with sweeping gestures and muscular lines. His unique fenestrations sensitively frame views with a painterly eye. Attendees will be struck by the breadth of his capabilities.
One of his Hamptons commissions showcases a powerful vertical thrust, while another exploits its flat location with an elegant horizontal layering. Materials are his master and he employs them as distinctively as his name.
Mr. Makoid’s mission statement says it all, “Our work is modern. We see this not as recklessly applied ‘style,’ but as a process, an investigation and a way of collaboration in pursuit of a universally understood solution that is elegant, functional and complete.”
The architect is recognized not only for his great consideration of clients’ needs and wishes, forethought of the building sites and his creativity, but also for the fact that he is both kind and mindful. Symposium attendees will appreciate this.
Mr. Scott’s interior design work has been seen in Architectural Digest, New York Spaces, Interior Design and The New York Times. A graduate of the New York School of Interior Design, Mr. Scott founded his firm more than 20 years ago.
He describes his work as “visually stimulating yet highly functional interiors that gracefully meld practical architecture with unique design.” The Water Mill resident says that his style “blends timeless elegance of the past with the functionality of the present using a collaborative and detail-oriented approach to create calming and beautiful environments.”
Though Mr. Scott’s work has a sleek contemporary edge to it, he never loses warmth, humanity, or for that matter, his sense of humor. His shapes interrelate, his color sense is graphic and his environments are rich with textural juxtapositions. His style may be pared down for the East End but the comfort and refined sense of proportion are always strong and in evidence. The inventiveness of his interiors is always the indication of a great designer.
In addition to his recently acclaimed Kips Bay Decorator Show House room, Mr. Scott has recently produced a book, which he will be signing after the symposium. Having been acquainted with him professionally for several decades, I am very excited for you to experience his beautiful work, his great insight and his charming wit.
Mr. deLashmet—a landscape architect, sought-after lecturer, author and East Hampton resident—has completed notable landscape projects and historic garden restorations throughout the United States and Europe. His work has been seen in Town Country, Elle Decor, House Garden magazine, Architectural Digest, and Garden Design magazine.
“Our focus varies from project to project, but we believe first in the acknowledgment of the immediate setting in which we will be working, advocating a strong underlying architecture beneath a more natural planting style that reflects the prevailing genius loci,” Mr. deLashmet says.
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