Swimming Pool of the Week: Dreaming in Blue at a Stylist's Hamptons Compound

After buying a 1950s house in Amagansett, East Hampton, fashion stylist Tiina Laakkonen and husband Jon Rosen built a compound of barn-like structures honoring the land's rural traditions. Laakkonen, owner of nearby Tiina the Store, grew up in southeastern Finland. Their summer retreat wears a tightly curated palette of black, white, and indigo—"a tightly curated version of all things Finnish." (More in Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home.)

Blue dominates indoors and out, where the pool competes with a riotous sky-colored hydrangea hedge for "Most Blue."

Photography by Matthew Williams.

Above: Irregular stone pavers add informality to the symmetrical blue hydrangeas in pots flanking the zinc-roofed pool house gate.

Above: Rustic split-rail fence encloses the swimming pool.

Above: Green lawn connects the two blue landscape elements.

Above: A pitch pine (North American native) provides a dramatic focal point in the gently sloped lawn.

Above: Laakkonen and Rosen worked with Bagchee Architects to build new structures on four acres without disrupting natural scenery or woodlands.

Above: Polished concrete floors and sliding doors open the living room to outdoors.

Above: Guest barn, living barn, master bedroom barn. Permeable gravel driveway softens hardscape at garage.

Above: Ribbon driveway with mown grass strip curves following land contours. More: Finnish Modernism Comes to the Hamptons on Remodelista.

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