Wow House: Home's Trendsetting Design Maximizes Privacy, Natural Beauty

EAST HAMPTON, NY — Here's a stunning home that features dramatic spaces rich in architectural detail just steps from the beach.

• Address: 77 Cross Hwy, East Hampton, New York
• Price: $8,750,000
• Square Feet: 5100
• Bedrooms: 5
• Bathrooms: 5 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1985
• Features: Trendsetting design can maximize privacy and natural beauty, and 77 Cross Highway is proof. This Norman Jaffe-designed estate takes advantage of a beautiful setting in a prime location, offering dramatic spaces rich in architectural detail. The core of the home is a double-height entrance hall, which has views to the pool and tiered stone waterworks. Allow the eye to follow the open staircase up toward the skylit atrium above, for a play of air and light worthy of the great James Turrell or Dan Flavin. Entire house refurbished in 2016, including all systems and fixtures. Formal dining room, eat-in kitchen, and reading nook, sunken living room with massive stone fireplace. Other amenities include Five bedrooms - each with ensuite bath and on its own dedicated level - allowing for an adaptable and autonomous use of space. Outside, manicured grounds frame the home with specimen plantings that maximize a sense of privacy and warmth - only a quick trip to the beach, Maidstone Club, the villages of East Hampton and Amagansett, and surrounded by the most impressive and coveted homes in the Hamptons.

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