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"Sag Harbor Renewal\nAn 1865 Town House in the Hamptons Gets a Second Chance\nIn Sag Harbor, New York, designer Michael Lee and friends Alex and Sue Glasscock converted an 1865 Second Empire\u2013style town house from a triplex back to a single-family residence.\nThe living room has an 18th-century French writing table, from Sotheby's, and, above the fireplace, a 1958 oil by Friedel Dzubas.\nThe Glasscocks\u2014he owns a private equity firm; she is an organic farmer\u2014have been renovating houses with Lee for 14 years. Works on paper by Robert Gwathmey, top, from Sotheby's, and Jafe Kaldi hang in the music room over a bamboo Ralph Lauren sofa, with a Henry Calvin fabric.\nLee and the couple have primary residences in Malibu, California, but use the three-story town house, which was completely gutted during the restoration, as a shared retreat. In the dining room, a 1957 mixed-media artwork is above a circa 1680 Flemish cabinet.\n\"The kitchen had seven-foot ceilings,\" Lee notes. \"It was so dank.\" He raised the ceilings to nine feet, removed a fireplace\u2014\"It chopped the room in half,\" he says\u2014and a pantry and installed French doors that open onto the rear courtyard. The landscaping was done by Mario Nievera.\nWhile Lee drew inspiration for the d\u00E9cor from a Horst book of interiors, the kitchen's light, airy sitting room shows the designer's Southern California influence. A 1960 charcoal on paper is displayed next to a floor lamp from Amy Perlin Antiques. Henry Calvin denim on chairs and sofa.\nThe master sitting room \"needed the most attention,\" says Lee, who enlarged the opening to the bedroom as well as the window. He also added the window at left. The nautical-themed painting is from 1937.\nThe window looks out on the mansard roof with iron cresting."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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