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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/13/2026

'Fire Island Modernist'—architectural goldmine and a portal to a lost generation

Out now in an expanded edition, Christopher Rawlins’ perennial summertime best-seller, Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction is, technically, a serious, scholarly architecture book on one of the great overlooked designers of the twentieth century. It’s also a sexy and expansive cultural history of the narrow but mighty barrier island that has become forever known as a joyful, permissive summer paradise for queer New Yorkers of every stripe. “In rediscovering Gifford’s architecture, I also found a portal to a lost generation,” Rawlings writes, “truncated by AIDS and winnowed by the passage of time, but still resonant with artistic and cultural significance.” Pictured here, Water Games (1937) by Herbert List.

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Metropolis Books
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 181 color / 107 b&w.

$65.00  free shipping





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