Joelle Uzyel takes Hamptons projects as the East End half of the Manhattan practice. Oceanfront homes and summer residences in East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, and Bridgehampton. Specified for salt air and the summer construction calendar. Design-build from one studio. $250M+ portfolio.
The Direct Answer
Hiring an interior designer in the Hamptons is a calendar job and a climate job. Several villages restrict construction in summer. Review boards take real lead time. Salt air and hard August use decide the materials. Full projects at this level typically run $500K to $5M and up. The practice already works in Manhattan, so the beach house is usually the second half of the same conversation.
This Market
The architecture is not one beach look. East Hampton is estate lanes and village review. Southampton is oceanfront pedigree. Sag Harbor is a tighter historic footprint. Bridgehampton is acreage and new construction at scale. A house that sits empty Monday to Thursday has to work like a hotel on Friday without reading as one.
The season writes the schedule. Trades book out. Some villages go quiet in summer. If design starts in January for Memorial Day, the house can be finished. If it starts in April, the summer is lost to it. Salt, humidity, and sunscreen decide what lasts on the hardware and the fabrics.
The first conversation belongs with the designer, before a contractor promises a summer delivery the village calendar will not allow.
Estate lanes south of the highway and village streets under review board watch. Interiors that meet the shingle tradition without turning into a costume.
Oceanfront estates and village classics with real architectural pedigree. Renovations that keep the bones and bring the rooms up to how the family actually lives.
Historic whaling village homes and waterfront new builds on the harbor. Tighter footprints where the planning has to be exact and the millwork earns its keep.
Farm-field acreage and new construction at scale. Larger plans where the interior has to hold big volumes and still feel like a beach house.
Yes. The practice already works in Manhattan and takes on Hamptons projects from East Hampton through Southampton, Sag Harbor, and Bridgehampton. Most clients run the project from the city, and the studio is built for exactly that: design directed remotely, site visits at the milestones that matter, and one point of contact throughout.
No. Significant Hamptons houses are routinely designed by Manhattan and out-of-market studios, and the practice manages distance as core process rather than an exception. What matters is a team that knows coastal construction, communicates on your schedule, and shows up on site when the project needs eyes on it.
East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, and the villages between, including Water Mill and Amagansett. The practice takes on projects across the East End when the scope and the client are the right fit.
In this market, full home projects at this level typically cost $500K to $5M and up. Kitchens commonly run $150K and up and bathrooms $75K and up at this standard of finish. Design fees are scope-based and discussed at the first consultation.
Yes, and it is how most significant Hamptons homes get done. The studio runs the same design-build model here that it runs in Beverly Hills and Manhattan: one firm holds the drawings, the specifications, and the contractor coordination, with scheduled site visits through construction and a full installation at the end.
Yes. Salt air, humidity, and hard summer use change what performs. Hardware and metals are specified for coastal exposure so they do not pit, woods and finishes are chosen to move with the humidity instead of fighting it, and fabrics are selected to take sunscreen, sand, and a full house in August.
The East End builds against the season. Several villages restrict construction in the summer months, review boards take real lead time, and trades book out early. The studio plans design and procurement around that calendar from day one, so the house is finished before Memorial Day instead of losing the summer to it.
A real estate development background since 2011. She understands construction documents, permitting, and contractor coordination as core expertise. $250M and more in completed projects, featured in Architectural Digest, Elle, and the Wall Street Journal.