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摘要

When future historians look back, they will surely cluck in wonderment over the slavish devotion that fin-de-millennium homeowners and their architects paid to the past. They will also discover that this mindset was nowhere more in evidence than on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. In the Hamptons, architectural homages to yesteryear―that is, to the early-20th-century glory days of pre-income-tax American fortunes—have reached such epic proportions that one would hardly be surprised to hear that the world has suddenly run out of cedar shingles. The interiors of these gabled monsters tend to exhibit a similar wearisome lack of imagination, justified by words like integrity and appropriateness. Two responses: yawns and more yawns.