The Giaquintos have built 19 Modern Barns since 2011, fine-tuning the design to make each one steadily more extraordinary. That design evolution of The Modern Barn has culminated in the exquisite residence Plum Builders is now creating in East Hampton.
This 11,000-square-foot home, priced at a tidy $12.8 million, comes complete with a tennis court, spa, pool, pool house, 2,000 square feet of outside covered dining and living space and his-and-hers’ offices. A private gym, called the Peloton Room, will open via a sliding door to a master private deck overlooking the glass-doored Modern Barn room. Near the gym, the master suite measures 1,700 square feet in and of itself, and is graced by a fireplace, mini-kitchen and service unit, and, says Al, “all the accoutrements to stay in the space.”
Creature comforts reach their zenith within the 10-by-35-foot bathroom crowned by a 10-foot ceiling. Boasting a six-foot-long soaking tub and two private water closets, the bathroom also features a shower opening via a sliding door to its own private deck.
Like other residences bearing The Modern Barn imprimatur, this one brings together a medley of materials – smooth, hard, soft, wood, stone, metals, and in different colors and shades – painstakingly hand selected to create a warm, cozy, sensory experience. “We call that the blend of materials that creates a symphony,” Gianquito says. “It’s the symphony that, taken together, makes for the Modern Barn aesthetic.”