LongHouse Reserve inspires living with art in all of its forms. The late founder Jack Lenor Larsen — an internationally known textile designer, author, and collector — created this modernist home and garden to capture color, ideas, innovation, change, and reinvention. Today, the 13,000 square feet reserve features sculpted gardens and sprawling spaces for artists to display their artistic creations.
On October 8th, join Untapped New York Insiders for a docent-led tour of LongHouse Reserve, a 16-acre reserve and sculpture garden in East Hampton, New York. The reserve features pieces from artists such as Buckminster Fuller, Yoko Ono, and Willem de Kooning. Please note that as the garden is in East Hampton, New York, it is not accessible by public transportation. The event is free for Untapped New York Insiders (get your first month free with code JOINUS).
The 16-acre sculpture garden and nature reserve boasts thousands of species of plant life and nearly 60 works of art. Though Larsen has passed, the LongHouse Reserve staff continues to promote his mission of not only cultivating his plant collection as an art form but as a method of living simultaneously with nature as well. Within the gardens, sculptures created by artists from across the world await curious visitors craving imaginative pieces.
Cheng Tsung Feng’s Fish Trap VI. Courtesy of Richard Lewin
New works this season include Steven and William Ladd’s sculpture Right Here, Right Now, which represents their practice in love and kindness through a covered pathway composed of beads hand cut from cedar trees and woven into textiles, and Cheng Tsung Feng’s Fish Trap VI, a pavilion and portal dedicated to his local heritage. The sculpture garden also features new installations from Moko Fukuyama, Fitzhugh Karol, Alexander Polzin, and Bjorn Amelan.
Yoko Ono’s Play it By Trust. Courtesy of LongHouse Reserve.
Permanent favorites in the collection include works by Buckminster Fuller, Yoko Ono, and Willem de Kooning. While Yoko Ono’s interactive sculpture, Play It By Trust, features a chess set with only white pieces, John Kuthik’s Fly’s Eye Dome, is a large fiberglass structure that invites guests to view the gardens from the inside.
