Somewhere in the rolling farmland near Millbrook, NY sits Bel-Air Farms, a techno-pastoral sprawl of fieldstone walls and glass pavilions that manages to feel both grand and grounded. The original 1960s house—a low-slung experiment in angles and terraces—was restructured in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, letting glass corners and heavy stone piers frame the landscape without getting in its way. Rooms unfold around a central hexagonal courtyard with a fountain and a single locust tree at its center. A tent like canopy provides respite from the sun and sliding glass walls open to let the outdoors in, blurring the boundary between in and out, farm and house. Two winter gardens situated at the courtyard’s mouth become lit beacons in the summer night sky.
Somewhere in the rolling farmland near Millbrook, NY sits Bel-Air Farms, a techno-pastoral sprawl of fieldstone walls and glass pavilions that manages to feel both grand and grounded. The original 1960s house—a low-slung experiment in angles and terraces—was restructured in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, letting glass corners and heavy stone piers frame the landscape without getting in its way. Rooms unfold around a central hexagonal courtyard with a fountain and a single locust tree at its center. A tent like canopy provides respite from the sun and sliding glass walls open to let the outdoors in, blurring the boundary between in and out, farm and house. Two winter gardens situated at the courtyard’s mouth become lit beacons in the summer night sky.
