In 1966, the New Yorker followed Robert Scull, a “taxi tycoon” and “the busiest, the most powerful, and very probably the most ambitious [art] collector around,” to his East Hampton home at 123 Georgica Road. Designed for the Scull family in 1962 by noted architect Paul Lester Wiener, the home was built within “partying distance of art world luminaries,” as the magazine put it. It’s now for sale, asking $4,850,000.
The New Yorker’s Jane Kramer described the house as a “dramatic, glass-walled villa, built out in the wings to form a sculpture atrium, and landscaped with enough sensitive trees and flowers to keep a gardener from the neighboring village of Springs fully employed.” The house sits on an acre and a half of land, and exhibited artwork from Scull’s extensive collection, including works by de Kooning, Rothko, and Rauschenberg. It was where Andy Warhol painted a portrait of Robert Scull’s wife, Ethel.
Located south of the highway, the house is equal distance from both Main Beach and Georgica Beach, as Curbed notes. Originally intended as a bungalow, it instead grew to 2,500 square feet, with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and a pool house. There’s also studio space, a gunite pool, and the same glass walls, trees and sculpture atrium that the New Yorker described 52 years ago — all of which help make the Robert Scull house a true original.
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