Motor Yacht RM ELEGANT – ‘THE PARTY BOAT’ available for Cannes Film Festival & Monaco Grand Prix yacht charter

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Known as ‘ The Party Boat’,  motor yacht RM ELEGANT is the best choice if you are in search of a superyacht to host a large party or a corporate event. This extremely large and spacious luxury vessel is available for €65,000 per day plus expenses during the Cannes Film Festival as well as Monaco Grand Prix. Mega Yacht RM Elegant was built by Lamda Shipyard according to naval architecture by Nafpigiki Hellas and design by L.Poulias. She is one of the few private luxury yachts based in the Western Mediterranean (French Riviera, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Spain etc.) able to accommodate up to 30 guests overnight in 15 staterooms. RM Elegant is extremely well suited for hosting  parties, birthdays, special events, charity events or anniversaries, with a capacity of 100 guests at anchor and 150 guests when berthed.

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Luxury mega yacht RM ELEGANT

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Charter yacht RM ELEGANT at night

Known as one of the most elite charter yachts, her dynamic and futuristic profile ensures that the RM Elegant yacht is the most unmistakable mega yacht in the world. At 72 m and with accommodation for 30 guests she is indubitably a world leader. This yacht has been created for those who appreciate truly luxurious living and are ready for the sheer joy of life aboard a design masterpiece. Together with her highly trained crew of 31, RM ELEGANT can guarantee that you will be provided with an outstanding level of service ensuring the perfect charter.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - Sundeck

It is impossible not to awestruck by the yacht’s vast open deck space. 250 sq m provide an enormous area for both sunbathing and partying. The 12-person spa-pool is serviced from the double sided bar where, alternatively you can sit and enjoy the spectacular panoramic views sipping a glass of champagne. The Sun Deck is accessed by a lift from all the guest decks and there are two shower-rooms on either side of the superstructure.

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The aft saloon deck - Mega Yacht RM ELEGANT

Mega Yacht RM Elegant‘s  covered outdoor dining area has four round tables convertible into two large oval tables for a total of 30 guests. Should your party be but  a handful we do not want you to feel lost, therefore the ability to have this flexible seating arrangement allows for intimate dining. The area is serves by a fully equipped bar and has direct access to the galley from where, our four first class chefs, produce the most delectable menus.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - MAIN SALOON

Effortlessly elegant, the Main Saloon exudes a sense of luxury, while simultaneously giving an informal atmosphere. The room is finished in light colour, thus emphasising the triptych painted by the renowned artist Katerina Georgantas that adorns one entire wall. Equipped with a boudoir grand piano, a games tables and a 55 inch plasma-screen television, it is indeed the ideal place to relax and perhaps indulge in an after-dinner aperitif.

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Mega yacht RM ELEGANT - INTERIOR DINNING

For more formal dining aboard RM ELEGANT superyacht  it is definitely worth experiencing a meal in these superb surroundings while you indulge in an exceptional culinary experience. The style here is modern and clean with an art deco ambience. The innovative kidney shaped dining tables each seat 15 guests and there is a cozy corner where a further 5 guests cab enjoy an intimate meal. Cleverly separated from the rest of the room by curved wall and deep sofas is a fully equipped bar where our crew are ready to serve you the drink of your choice.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - Owner's Saloon

The Owner’s saloon is an extremely attractive room with a library atmosphere, leather sofas and a fireplace. Although classic in looks, the entertainment system is right up to date with another large plasma screen television and full cinema surround system.  The yacht’s extensive DVD and CD library are housed here. As this room backs on to the Diamond Suite it cab be closed off for exclusive use.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - MASTER DIAMOND CABIN

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - MASTER Diamond Bathroom

Diamond Suite is the Owner’s Stateroom and is located on the Bridge Deck just aft of the Bridge and occupies the full width of the superstructure, thus providing ample space for searing area, desk and vanity table. It is extremely appointed in copper tones with oak panelled marquetry and sand blasted glass with copper leaf inlay. The adjoining immense bathroom is equipped with both a circular shower and full-sized spa bath overhead Swarovski crystal fibre optics setting the scene for a very romantic bath time.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - VIP RUBY CABIN

The VIP suite on board luxury charter yacht RM ELEGANT is called the Ruby Suite and is made up of a main bedroom, a small sitting room and a large bathroom with full-sized spa bath and shower. Like all areas of the yacht everything cab be regulated by Creston remote control. This includes the adjustable lighting with which you can set the mood in your stateroom. Both the Diamond Suite and Ruby Suite have their own lap top computers.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - Cabin

The staterooms aboard the charter yacht RM ELEGANT are all similar in size but vary in colour schemes. Designed with oak panelled marquetry and mirrored walls, they each incorporate a seating area, have a small desk, a full entertainment systems including an LCD screen and a safe. Each room has direct dial telephone and internet access. All the beds convert from king sized to twin. The most interesting aspect of these staterooms is the curved glass panels decorated with silver leaf that separate the main bedroom from the marble finished en-suite bathroom.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - BUSINESS

There is also a Business Centre set up in order to facilitate the business man. The computers, fax machine and printer are all for the guests’ use. Video conferencing is also available and an LCD screen can constantly transmit the news or stock markets via satellite TV. Internet is accessible from this centre but also from all areas of the yacht.

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Motor yacht RM ELEGANT - MASSAGE

The fitness centre on the main deck of RM ELEGANT is equipped with professional CYBEX equipment televisions and music system. The sauna is there for your use and the yacht’s on-board beauty therapist will be happy to give you a relaxing massage. Also available to guests is RM ELEGANT’s professional hairdressing saloon.

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Water sports - Luxury yacht RM ELEGANT

When it comes to the water sports, there is a direct access to the sea from the extendable aft swimming platform. From here boarding tenders is made easy. The three jet skis and the mass of toys are all at the guests’ disposal.

RM ELEGANT is only one of many luxury yachts available for charter during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival as well as the Monaco Grand Prix. Our team at CharterWorld will help you to choose the best yacht to suite your needs and expectations. We have a large list of  charter yachts available in Cannes or the Mediterranean in general, within several price ranges in different size groups, being it for a small private charter or large corporate functions.

Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo for Sale

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Enter the musical universe that is the Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo.

The Ferretti Group likes designing the impossible and they pursue making dreams come true. Incorporating the newest technology, committing themselves to perpetual and breakthrough development, and making unique investments, they have concreted their place in the nautical world, hand in hand with the best ones. They have been designing a wide range of boats like coupe, flybridge, open, maxi and mega yachts. While working on aesthetic and functional attributes of their boats, the Ferretti Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo has come to light. The Ferretti Group added this beauty to their group of fiberglass maxi yachts. The name Crescendo derives from the Italian word with reference to classical music (crescendo – gradual increase in force, intensity and volume). Therefore, the yacht depicts the paramount culture of Italian style, gentle elegance, and classical harmony. The Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo is the after effect of an adjacent collaboration between the Ferretti Group Engineering, Studio Zuccon International Project, AYT Advanced Yacht Technology and the team of architects at Ferretti Group’s Centro Stile. The Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo price is entirely adequate with respect to the yacht’s assets and fabulous features.

"Crescendo" presents the contemporary evolution of yachts with its semi-displacement range possessing an overall length of 107 feet while the beam is 23 feet. The yacht has been designed with advanced GRP fiberglass. The fiberglass was used for both the superstructure and the hull too. The aforementioned semi-displacement hull has a hard chine and at the same time, the keel of the hull is pretty deep. The vessel meets all the demands by navigations classification standards. Regarding the motor craft’s displacement, it is approximated 308.647 pounds under the full load conditions. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ARG (Anti Rolling Gyro) stabilization system is integrated within this yacht, together with gyro stabilizers positioned in two parts of the yacht – in the middle and aft. The Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo embodies conventional outward lines that merge accordingly with the interior design. She encompasses three decks, including an ingenious sundeck, which are in accord with the lines of the yacht.

When it comes to the performance and the engines of the yacht, The Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo was designed in consonance with the "slow motion" conception meaning that these semi-displacement yachts are namely representing "mansions on the ocean" which puts aside the velocity and highlights of comfort and entertainment. The clientele has the option of choosing between two MAN turbo diesel engines. The Navetta 33 Crescendo is equipped with standard MAN V12 Common Rail engines with a 1400 horsepower. Each engine contains a total cylinder capacity of up to 1.479 cubic inches. The top speed of this yacht is 17 knots with a range at 550 nautical miles. Moreover, the cruising speed is estimated to be 15 knots. Obviously, the yacht is not a speed boat, but she can take you to places safe and sound with comfort one has not yet had a chance to experience. However, if the customer opts for the other option, then one gets MAN V12 engines containing 1550 horsepower. With this engine, the yacht has the ability of a maximum speed of around 20 knots and displays the cruising speed of 16 knots. Last, but not the least, the freshwater tanks possess a capacity of 859 gallons and the fuel tanks possess a capacity of 4.306 gallons.

The style and interiors of the yacht have been elevated to another level especially relating to the functionality. Stefano Campanelli, Ferretti Group EMEA Sales Director, said: "We have increased contact with the sea through innovative solutions, whilst maintaining the classical style which characterizes this kind of yacht, where it is possible to enjoy spacious areas, natural light and high levels of well-being. We expect to ‘grow’ more with this model, whose name expresses our wish to improve the success achieved in Italy and abroad with her predecessor."

The Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo is appropriately ventilated and receives bountiful natural light into the internal parts of the boat resulting in a more capacious layout. The Navetta 33 Crescendo layout encompasses the cockpit which serves its purpose. One can put his mind at ease and relax in luxurious comfort with family and friends. The cockpit is furnished with a brown wooden table that can seat 8 people and a sofa behind it. Right next to the sofa, the skipper has the option of dock maneuvering controls for an easier and more visible approach to the docks. Behind the cockpit, a vast sunbed is placed eyeing the sea and the swim platform just beneath it.

This Custom Line's bridge deck is luxuriously furnished and the level of functionality is at its peak. The bridge saloon, situated aft, accommodates an extremely vast L-shaped sofa. It is closely connected with the bridge dining area. The bridge dining area boasts an elegant glass table that can seat up to eight people. The bridge salon is also connected with aforementioned areas and contains a small L-shaped sofa with a table. Opposite is a large TV screen for entertainment during sailing. One can ascend the stairs on the bridge lounge and will find himself on the sundeck. Amid the sundeck, a sink and grill have found their place. Sunbathing on the sundeck is certainly an option; however, relaxing in the hot tub is quite dazzling too.  

Entering the main saloon is via a glass sliding door and one can notice a junction of the main saloon and the dining room. The cockpit is set in a "gentle palette and calm interior." A huge sofa with a rectangular table is placed looking at the big screen TV and a glass cabinet next to the TV. The dining area consists of a glass seating lounge that can seat up to 8 people. The cockpit and the dining area are bathed with natural light due to the numerous windows on both sides. By opening the sliding door on the starboard side of the main saloon, a beautiful hallmark terrace is revealed. Moving forward, towards the bow in the main corridor, a day head is conveniently located for passengers on the main deck. Moving forward, the master suite can be found. It comprises of an en-suite bathroom, an outstanding Jacuzzi, shower and even a walk-in closet. The room flatters itself by a floating bed with nightstands. The crew quarters are divided from the guest cabins which are placed below deck.

Going below deck, four VIP cabins with double beds are situated. All areas below deck are furnished with large windows bathing the area with natural light and ventilation. The engine and control room are situated aft. Additional features span from the garage, space for the tender or jet skis to another sundeck at the bow. That’s not all. The new Furla.net control system is installed throughout the yacht. Passengers can observe and manage different utilities, alarms, and services with a touch screen control. All furnishings, décor and fabrics can be changed at the owner’s request. 

The Navetta 33 Crescendo is a powerful yacht in terms of illumination, functionality and entertainment. It’s not the roadrunner, but it will take you safe and sound to any destination and at the same time, you will be entertained and relaxed. Versatile options are presented throughout the yacht so no one is left out. You get an extraordinary experience with the direct contact with the ocean. This dreamboat, together with all fabulous its features, can be yours.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity! Contact us for all the information! This Custom Line Navetta 33 Crescendo certainly justifies her name, so make sure you get on board and begin your life journey before someone beats you to it!

Balwyn North beauty a stylish, sophisticated offering

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FROM its rendered grey facade to its spacious three levels and landscaped gardens, this house is chic and stylish throughout.

It features polished timber floors and high ceilings, with an expansive rear deck offering views to Kinglake and including a built-in barbecue with a wok burner.

“The home is in a highly sought after area, with a north-facing rear garden having unobstructed views,” said Noel Jones Doncaster’s Daniel D’Assisi.

“It’s a beautiful contemporary home but still quite comfortable. It’s a great entertainer’s home, ideal for a growing family, and it’s in the Balwyn High zone.”

Sliding glass doors reveal the leafy landscaped gardens, which include a pond.

Multiple living zones and accommodation areas are across all three levels of 5 Rookwood St, Balwyn North, ensuring entertaining guests is easy.

The ground floor comprises a rumpus room large enough for a pool table and with another living area ideal for a home office or theatre.

Sliding glass doors reveal the leafy landscaped gardens, which include a pond.

The kitchen is stylish and practical with stainless steel appliances, metallic splashbacks and stone benchtops.

The main living zone, however, is on the home’s middle level, where a spacious open-plan area flows to the deck.

The kitchen is both stylish and practical with stainless steel appliances, metallic splashbacks, Caesarstone benchtops, and an island bench and breakfast bar.

The middle level also has a separate living room, and there is a bedroom with built-in wardrobes and a bathroom with a shower.

The middle level also has a separate living room.

Further accommodation is on the home’s upper level, where four bedrooms frame another living area or retreat.

There is also a study nook and a front balcony with wrought iron balustrades.

The vast main bedroom at the rear of the floorplan features a large walk-in wardrobe and a stunning ensuite with a spa bath, separate shower and twin vanities.

The main bedroom at the rear of the floorplan features a large walk-in wardrobe and an ensuite.

The remaining bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and share a bathroom with a separate bath and shower.

The house also has a double garage with internal access, ducted heating and airconditioning, a ducted vacuum system, and an alarm system.

There is a water tank and ample storage space. There is parkland, schools, and shops close by.

A pool room is part of the package.

DETAILS

Auction: Saturday, September 9, 1pm

Inspect: Thursday, August 24, noon; Saturday, August 26, 10am

Price guide: $2.5 million-$2.75 million

Agent:Noel Jones Doncaster

Contact: Daniel D’Assisi, 9848 7888 or 0411 863 338; David Fileccia, 0402 026 748

Five-Star Hotels in the Hamptons

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History and money are familiar bedfellows in Hamptons residential real estate: Even an imperfect piece of the past costs a pretty present penny. It’s a different story on the hotel side, where the twain hardly ever bed down. Classic luxury accommodations in historic buildings are rare on the East End, which is why the Hamptons has been saddled with that hyphenated-adjective “hotel-starved” for so long. (True, there are renovated motor courts with Frette sheets, but that’s more retro-chic than five-star.)

This year that distasteful descriptor comes a step closer to retiring with the opening of Topping Rose House, an 1842 Greek Revival mansion in Bridgehampton. (The fact that the effort took eight years to come to fruition tells you why such hotels are so scarce out here.) With Topping Rose in the mix, there’s now a trio of Hamptons properties where history and money have coupled to create hotels at a Relais & Châteaux level. Here’s how each plays on the past in its quest for a present perfect.

TO THE MANOR BORN
The 22-room luxury inn Topping Rose House adds cachet to Bridgehampton.

“I have always liked the juxtaposition of something edgy with something soft,” Alexandra Champalimaud, who designed the interiors of Topping Rose House, told the Financial Times this past January. She was referring to her fashion sense—black leather leggings from The Row, feminine blouse, sharply tailored blazer—but as she quickly confirmed in our interview, it’s her design sensibility in a nutshell. Which is why the rooms at Topping Rose have a Windsor chair (but painted black) at a midcentury trumpet-pedestal side table in real marble.

Juxtaposition is the thread that defines Topping Rose House, a 22-room luxury compound in Bridgehampton. It consists of the 1842 Greek Revival Topping Rose House, named for its original owner, Judge Abraham Topping Rose; a small addition; a 19th-century barn turned event space; and a L-shaped new complex that houses the spa and 15 “cottage” guest rooms.

“Everybody came out of the woodwork,” says Roger Ferris, the head of Roger Ferris + Partners, who designed the architecture and shepherded the project down the Via Dolorosa of approvals required. He’s referring to the cast of government officials, preservationists, historicists, and “not in my backyard” Hamptonites who sprang to life when it became known that Bill Campbell, a Hamptons resident and senior adviser to Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase, had bought the property and planned to turn it into a luxury hotel. (Simon Critchell, the former head of Cartier North America, and Tom Colicchio, who is in charge of the hotel and restaurant, are also partners now.)

Irony abounded, starting with Campbell’s interest in the place, which was sparked by the fact that “the property was grandfathered for a spa, restaurant, and hotel.” He was proposing exactly what the town seemed to want. The zoning itself is the result of 1970s horse-trading—"so it wouldn’t become a gas station,” says Campbell laughing. And Topping Rose House was on the verge of falling down by the time work began.

Ferris knows his architectural history—he talks fluently about façade punctuation (that’s doors and windows to the layperson) and proportion, and though emphatically modern, his designs reference classical architecture. See those 24-foot-high portals that punctuate the new construction? Now think of the Arc de Triomphe or the Arch of Constantine, and you’ll understand where he’s coming from.

Ferris built Campbell’s coalition of the willing by periodically getting the various constituencies in a room. “The restoration of the inn was not a difficult sell,” says Ferris. It was the small addition to the right—which houses an elevator and fire stair, neither of which could be worked into the original building—that caused a war. On one side were the architectural preservationists, intent on copying the style of the main house down to the last dentil. On the other was the Southampton Architectural Review Board, which wanted something modern but harmonious.

In the end, it came down to one word in the National Park Service guidelines for historical renovation: referential. Additions shouldn’t be copies, but there should be a familial resemblance, and they shouldn’t be attached to the original. It was hard for the purists to go against that. But of course you can’t ask guests to go outside to take an elevator. “Glass-hyphenated slits,” eight-foot- wide Starfire glass panels between the original building and the addition embody the peace treaty that Ferris finally struck, by underscoring the separation, but allowing for a sheltered passage from the main building to the elevators.

“The idea was to dematerialize the façade of the new buildings,” says Ferris, referring to the key design element, horizontal louvers that run from ground to roof on two sides. On the other two, fiberglass-laced cement slats, colored and baked to allude to weathered wood, float off the glass walls—“a veil,” says Ferris, who likes layering. (The louvers are also a privacy-screen.) In addition, Ferris moved and added to the barn on the property, placing it between the main-house addition and the new wing “to moderate the transition from the formality of the house to the dematerialized form.”

The rooms show off Champalimaud’s deft way with historical allusion, with the main-house rooms more traditional (iron four-poster beds, historically inspired bedside tables) and the cottage rooms done in a groovier dialect (cooler color scheme, platform bed, live-edge wood furniture). But even the main-house rooms have new coffee tables of white lacquered cubes. “It all feels good together, but it’s not perfectly matching—it feels like home,” says Champalimaud. 1 Bridgehampton–Sag Harbor Tpk., Bridgehampton, 537-0870; toppingrosehouse.com

HAMPTONS HIDEAWAY
The Inn at Windmill Lane is a stalwart getaway nestled within Amagansett.

This Amagansett property is a séance, a shingle-style mansion with muscular chimneys and eave and eyebrow windows called up through a combination of historical passion and very deep pockets.

The property is gorgeous. Sure, there are online mutterings about the lack of a pool, but that’s not because the owners are cheap—one look at the spacious marbled bathrooms will tell you that—but because their hands were tied by the past. They were only allowed to build on the footprint of the original building. That’s why reception is in what looks like a tollbooth up from the end of the driveway, and why there’s a vast lawn that could hold an Olympic-size pool, but is used for weddings.

That being said, the owners expensively embroidered the property where they could. See that regimental line of liriodendron trees along the brick walk? They were brought in.

And the rooms are beautiful, even the smallest double, which in the main house comes to 615 square feet. (In the main house, suite 5 is the most popular because of its vaulted ceilings.) The team wanted everything to be “timeless,” according to their very attentive concierges—and it shows. The bathrooms throughout are a lavishly expensive play of tiles and fittings, and the walk-in closets have built-in dressers.

The architect, Nicholas Botta, used wainscoting and molding throughout to create interiors that have the simplicity of a Shaker meetinghouse, but somehow come across as luxurious, not austere. That’s especially apparent in the three cottages at the back of the property, where you can wake up to clerestory window mullions boldly shadowed on a white arched embrasure. It made me say a prayer of thanks for being here. 23 Windmill Lane, Amagansett, 267-8500; innatwindmilllane.com

GARDEN OASIS
The Baker House 1650 suits all tastes in East Hampton.

And finally, here’s the past as heritage. Baker House is a 1650 home that in 1911 was transformed into an Elizabethan-style manor by that era’s Charles Gwathmey, Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe, the architect who did Grey Gardens among numerous other mansions, many in the gambrel style. Here, though, he went off on an inspired tangent, ransacking the Elizabethan playbook brilliantly: molded plaster ceiling paneling in the living room, coffered wood paneling in the lobby sitting room, tall eaves faced with strapwork (a decorative version of half-timbering), and those small-paned windows that give Elizabethan-style façades their inimitable rhythm.

I stayed in Maidstone, one of the top suites and a sonata of green. I’ve stayed in scores of luxury hotels around the world, but have rarely been so taken with a room. It’s not the largest or the most luxurious room that I’ve ever had, but it wraps you in a cashmere throw of the past—reproduction William Morris wallpaper of twirling tendrils, three-over-five small paned windows that look across to Mulford Farm, embracing armchairs, and a window seat long enough to stretch out on, which my companion promptly did, purring the afternoon away here with a book.

The garden feels like the English countryside: 200-year-old wisteria vines agony-twisted up to the crossbeams of an arbor, and cypress trees formed an honor guard down the far side of the property. Loungers were strewn about in front of the small pool, which has been beautifully worked into the landscape. Over the hedge, there’s an expanse of lawn with mature trees—hoop-skirted evergreens and obese rhododendrons ready to bloom—leading to the Carriage House, a two-suite compound with its own pool, much larger than the one behind the main house. (Baker House stands out among Hamptons luxury inns for having a pool at all, as it does for the small gem of a spa in the basement, which has its own pool, sauna, and jacuzzi.)

The room to get in the Carriage House is the Loft Suite, an open-plan garret of white, taupe, and beige with a big sleigh bed, a shower for two, and a deck flanked by gables. It’s $1,500 a night in season, and as you suspected, in season it’s always booked. However, I’d be quite happy waking up to see the hand-hewn wooden beams of The Hedges, one of the smallest rooms in the original part of the house. Past perfect. 181 Main St., East Hampton, 324-4081; bakerhouse1650.com