Rarely has Bill Ryall, of the Manhattan-based firm Ryall Sheridan Architects, had clients more involved in the design process than Michel and Caroline Zaleski. Several years ago, the New York couple commissioned Ryall to replace their weekend home, a 1950s bungalow in Amagansett, Long Island, where they had lived for two decades, with a new beach house.
The Zaleskis came to the project well schooled in architecture. Caroline, a preservationist, wrote Long Island Modernism: 1930–1980, in 2012. Michel, an investor, is the son of a Polish-born architect, Joseph Zaleski, who worked with Le Corbusier in the 1940s, in Paris, and again, in the 1960s, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he was the project architect for Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.
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