4+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1813+ words) Last Memorial Day, a man sold his software company for $230 million. Days later he closed on a nine-bedroom spread in Sagaponack. So he threw a party. The Hamptons social hierarchy, he assumed, could be bought. He hired the caterer everyone…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1847+ words) New money in the Hamptons arrives loud. Last summer a man parked a chrome-wrapped supercar outside a Bridgehampton farm dinner. He wanted the room to notice, and the room did. It noticed exactly the wrong thing. That contrast is the deepest…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1813+ words) Last Memorial Day, a man sold his software company for $230 million. Days later he closed on a nine-bedroom spread in Sagaponack. So he threw a party. The Hamptons social hierarchy, he assumed, could be bought. He hired the caterer everyone…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (768+ words) Nobody at a Polo Hamptons table is thinking about the champagne's technical profile. The minerality. The dosage. The vintage. These details exist. The person who chose the bottle knows them. That is precisely the point. The point is not the…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (746+ words) In the summer of 1981, Ralph Lauren opened a store on Job's Lane in Southampton. He did not run a campaign to announce it. No agency was hired to generate awareness. He opened a store in the exact geography where the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (307+ words) Sage & Madison officially welcomed the highly anticipated summer season over Memorial Day Weekend, establishing a glamorous tone for the months ahead. The historic property transformed its iconic grounds into a premier fashion destination, hosting an exclusive holiday pop-up event in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1450+ words) Old money has always treated visible branding as a kind of confession. A logo announces that you want to be seen buying, which announces, in turn, that the buying is recent. Out here the tell runs the other way. The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (228+ words) This is Chapter 5 of The Modern Culture Hamptons Bible, and it is the last. Sag Harbor was the harbor that made powerful people quiet down. Southampton was the hedgerow that wrote the rules. Bridgehampton was the field that became a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (304+ words) This comparison closes the Montauk Village Dossier and, with it, the fifth and final chapter of The Modern Culture Hamptons Bible. Sag Harbor was Chapter 1. Southampton was Chapter 2. Bridgehampton was Chapter 3. Amagansett was Chapter 4. And Montauk is Chapter 5. The End....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (922+ words) Guild Hall East Hampton: The Cultural Center No Other Village Has Social Life Magazine The Institution That Makes East Hampton Different Guild Hall East Hampton is the reason the village can claim something none of its neighbors can: a multidisciplinary…...