Completed in 2022, the home was a pandemic-era project for which Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro say they were more or less given carte blanche. Asked what the directive was from Seth and Alexi, Ariel says, “We have worked with them so many times that they didn’t have one!”
The new build sits in the town of Chilmark on Martha’s Vineyard, on a plot of land directly abutting Seth’s parents’ summer home. The bright hue of the cedar planks (they skipped the more traditional cedar shingles to give the home a modern flair) that wrap the barn-like structure reflects the home’s newness. (Ariel explains that it will weather to a gray to match the Martha’s Vineyard vernacular.) In the meantime, the frame of the home was constructed with reclaimed timber, which was largely left exposed in the interior and provides a gorgeous patina to the spaces that look far beyond their years.
