{"product_id":"issue-nine-cover-one-bill-sofield-s-maine-lighthouse-by-jesper-d-lund","title":"Issue Nine - Cover One: Bill Sofield’s Maine Lighthouse by Jesper D. Lund","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ds_description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ds_description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"details_content description_text flexbox\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"condition\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Bill Sofield and his partner, Dennis Anderson, purchased their Maine lighthouse 25 years ago (on a whim—they were reading the Sunday \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e real estate section over breakfast), it’s safe to say they had no idea what they were getting into. At the closing, which was the first time they’d set foot on the island, their lawyer whispered, “We have a way to get out of it. A loophole,” Anderson remembers. “We just looked at each other and said ‘but who ever gets to do something like this?’”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy now a sort of mutual reliance has sprung up between the house and its owners. It always needs their attention, and they crave the kind of simplicity and singularity of purpose that spending time here encourages. The rest of the year, their lives are chaotic in all the familiar ways: Anderson runs Bedford House, a vintage and antique furnishings shop in Westchester, New York, and Sofield is the founding partner of the Manhattan architecture and design firm Studio Sofield.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Studio’s work is often called daring, which translates as highly imaginative, unexpected and a little over the top. Among its early jobs were a Hudson River house for artists Helen and Brice Marden, the SoHo Grand Hotel and many gleaming Gucci boutiques worldwide. Current projects include the reimagining of the Flatiron Building as residential apartments and the Paul Rudolph townhouse once designed for design Halston recently purchased by Tom Ford. “Our style references in almost every aspect were the same, and from the moment we met we were able to speak about design in a kind of shorthand” say Ford. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDespite the glamour of it all, Sofield’s values remain simple: “For me, the idea of luxury is really telling people it’s okay to enjoy things, whatever they are. 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