Hamptons Living
The Hamptons Pool Aesthetic: Three Generations of Design Evolution
A long way from a backyard pool.
The Hamptons pool aesthetic has changed in subtle ways every decade, and dramatically when you stack a 1970s build alongside one finished last summer. What hasn't changed is the relationship between the pool and the property. A great Hamptons pool isn't a feature; it's a setting that the rest of the property is read against.
What ages well.
Material restraint, almost always. The pools we've cared for the longest tend to be the ones with the simplest material palettes (bluestone, gunite, a single tile spec) and the most thoughtfully calibrated proportions. The owners who chose those palettes a generation ago are now letting their grandchildren swim in pools that still read as current.
The best pools on the East End disappear into their landscapes. The next-best ones at least don't fight them.
The relationship with the property.
We've serviced the same 200-or-so properties for three generations now. Every visit is logged, every change documented, every conversation in the family's history with this pool is on a page somewhere in our files. That continuity is what most of our long-tenured clients tell us they value above any single trade we offer.
