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Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
LOST MODERN 5 OCEAN WALK
Architect: HARRY BATES, 1966.
“We want a one-bedroom house.”
“But what if you want to have a guest?” asked their architect.
“Nope. One bedroom,” declared John Mayer and the fashion designer Matej Sherko.
Bates responded with a glass box, romantically framed by arched openings and shielded by a front wall that conferred a fortress-like profile. Even the sundeck was placed between the gate and the house, rather than on the more public, coastal side. “The Password: Privacy” is how House and Garden headlined the house in a 1968 feature. It only pretended to secrecy, though: a gossip column in the Fire Island Tide noted Mayer and Sherko’s “great big splashy party to show off [their] magnificent new house that Harry Bates designed (how can anyone show off a house with 200 people…but then it’s better than conducted tours).”
Colorful pillows made from men’s ties added a whimsical touch to this maintenance-free house whose chores were few—“water the greens once a week, polish the floor once a year and forget it.”
5 Ocean Walk has been substantially altered.
Photos: Otto Maya/House & Garden.
