Updated and extended, a classic Horace Gifford beach house is for sale on Fire Island Pines

Wallpaper | 08.07.2026 16:31
Fire Island Pines has retained its lustre as an enclave of sun, sea and sex, all wrapped up in modest but alluringly contemporary architecture by pioneers like Horace Gifford. An enduring association between privacy, modernity and contemporary queerness took hold of the Brookhaven hamlet early in the twentieth century, but it was the 1950s and 1960s that cemented its role as a decadent summer destination for New York’s gay community.