City mouse Sarah Jessica Parker has decided to rent her Long Island getaway property this season. Modest and possessed of a midcentury coastal spirit, the slice of Hamptons heaven has three bedrooms and 1,200 sq. ft. to its credit, private beach access for a context, and the appeal of an artist’s den that might’ve hosted a prominent modernist novelist here and there or welcomed a Black Mountain poet for a weekend. It can be leased for $95K per month.
The house is as atmospherically period a corner of Northeastern summer as one could possibly want; sheathed in cedar shingles weathered seasoned grey and partially occupied by a tenacious creeping vine, the exterior tells a story or two with a first glance. Inside, it’s retained its 1940s details alongside certain tasteful renovations.
High on the list of the latter is the kitchen, where updates were carried out with an eye toward a splendidly insouciant cottage style — the floor in white and bright blue checkerboard tile and blue countertop make for a sympathetic response to the Atlantic just over the dunes. The floor in the adjacent living room is a response, in turn, to the kitchen, an abstract design in muted earth tones that works well with the red brick of the fireplace that anchors the space.
Outside, a deck provides ample space for long summer evenings in fair weather. It surveys a lawn that appears to belie the home’s quarter-acre lot size; this property is well-positioned to cast a spell as a seasonal lark that’s far-flung geographically — and perhaps, on certain moonlit evenings when the breeze is blowing from the east, temporally too.
Parker’s current projects include HBO Max’s Sex and the City reboot and sequel And Just Like That… The second season premieres next month.