CULTURED | How Interior Designer Jordan Carlyle Transformed His Hamptons Home Into a Bucolic Farmhouse Retreat

Before Jordan Carlyle and his husband, Mario Margelist-Carlyle, had even finalized the purchase of their East Hampton farmhouse inspired by 18th-century Georgian colonial architecture, Carlyle had already made the impetuous decision to commission a sizable piece of art: an angular, charcoal-black polished aluminum sculpture by the artist Bill Wood.

“I thought it would be really fabulous if you had a contemporary sculpture to the left of the house as you drive in, to juxtapose the traditional architecture,” says the founder and principal of the Manhattan-based Carlyle Designs. It was an especially daring move considering the couple hadn’t yet landed on any other aspect of their design plan—inside or out. …

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