Textile designer and painter Caroline Z. Hurley and clothing designer Alex Crane purchased a family retreat in Springs, New York, tucked along the water’s edge with views of Three Mile Harbor. With its picturesque setting, East Hampton residence became the perfect canvas for the couple and their two children to build a family home as well as creative space for the duo to find inspiration. They looked to their friends at Office of Tangible Space, one of AN Interior’s Top 50 architects and designers of 2025 and the firm that previously worked with the couple on their Altadena home before it was lost to the Eaton fire. Tasked with delivering something sturdy enough for a young family yet soft and gentle to spark creative expression, the firm implemented a series of abundant natural light to, literally and metaphorically, open up the home.
Working with Pebble Studio Design as architect of record, Office of Tangible Space first reconfigured the orientation of the home, beginning with the entry. A new 600-square-foot addition provides a new introduction to the residence, housing the new entry, mudroom, and sunroom which then flows into the living and dining spaces and kitchen. The addition, clad in slats of white wood, also introduces the key language of the home: frames of glazing. Floor-to-ceiling glass frames the entry on either side, washing the home in natural light.
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