A dramatic mature garden site along the rocky northeast coastline of Fishers Island provided a unique opportunity for siting of the house; the extensive existing gardens set the stage for the architecture. Woven into the landscape, the Fishers Island House is an architecture of subtlety, a precisely grounded yet quasi-weightless structure. The driveway approach sets up a dramatic axial relationship through a crab apple bosque to the front door. The home’s thin structural members sit lightly on the landscape and support a delicate aluminum trellis that filters harsh summer sun. A choreography of glass walls and landscaped courtyards seemingly bring the gardens into the house and allow one to experience both interior and exterior elements simultaneously. Freestanding in parallel alignment, the interior walls never meet the enclosure. Instead, they form a virtual box within a box, an implied inner volume. These parallel planes channel long vistas out toward water and garden, only allowing the seascape’s wide, rugged panorama to emerge in full view at the house’s far side. From the entry hall a reflecting pool continues the organizing axis, merging the boundaries between the ground, the water and the sky and extending the experience of the house out towards Long Island Sound. Adjacent to the entry, the living room and three galleries are open to views to the Sound and the garden. Carefully placed mid-century modern paintings, bronze sculptures, colorful glassware and contemporary furniture are enhanced by the controlled natural daylight and the shade of the trellis.