COOKFOX Architects' restored Andrew Geller's Pearlroth House (foreground) and designed a new house behind it, commissioned by Geller's client's son, Jonathan Pearlroth.
In what seems like unalloyed good news, Andrew Geller’s Pearlroth House, a box-kite-like icon of midcentury modernism, has been saved. The house in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, completed in 1959, was moved 40 feet inland by COOKFOX, the Manhattan architects, who are also restoring it. Jonathan Pearlroth, a lawyer and the son of Geller’s clients, has built a new house, also designed by COOKFOX, on the original site of what he calls the “double diamonds.” Pearlroth plans to open Geller’s 600-square-foot building to the public, by appointment, which he says will be easy to do now that it is closer to the road and now that his family has another place to live.
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