Modern Summer Home

This distinctive modern house on Martha’s Vineyard was Glenn Gissler’s second collaboration, for some long-time clients, with Bob Miklos of Design Lab Architects. The joy of furnishing this house, which features spectacular double-height glass rooms, was that Gissler had been involved in the project from footprint to finish; the challenge was to create an interior which would mirror the modernity of the architecture without falling into timeworn solutions.

Gissler interiors are notable for their warmth and diversity of material, which here, we combined with clean lines and unusual choices of mid-century and custom furniture. The palette is one of pale earth tones, the colors of sand, seashells and stone derived from the land- and seascapes of Martha’s Vineyard. The result is a softer, very livable Modernist icon.