Pure Minimalist Furniture Collection Takes Cues From Beach Landscape Of The Hamptons

Australian architect and designer Ameé Allsop has launched a collection of minimalist furniture made of bleached American ash and travertine.

The collection, called Pure Minimalist, presents simple tables and chairs made of flat planes of American ash and an angular shelf made of travertine.

"My love for home and the art of living has led me to design this collection," said Allsop. "There is architecture in everything".

Allsop, born in Sydney, said the clean lines, pale colors and palette of natural materials in the collection were informed by the minimalist art movement of the late 1950s, as well as by the beach landscape surrounding her House in Hamptons, a group of villages on the east end of Long Island, New York.

For Allsop, who has worked as an architect in Sydney and New York for the past 12 years, Pure Minimalist is her first furniture collection.

"It's not a mistake if the collection represents the minimalist landscape of Hamptons Beach," said Allsop, who recently moved from Brooklyn to the area.

"Although my furniture has been designed for many years throughout my architectural projects, my own transformation at sea has inspired the realization of the first coherent collection."

"I wanted to emphasize the beauty of the material and the simple proportions, the pieces do not require attention, but their presence is certain," he continued.

The six pieces in the collection - a club chair, a dining room table, a dining chair, a trundle coffee table, benches and shelves - were designed in the Hamptons and manufactured in New York.

Elsewhere in the Hamptons, the architects drew inspiration from vernacular architecture in the area to create new minimalist houses.

The American firm Bates Masi Architects modeled a house in East Hampton, made up of large tile-clad gables, on historic farms, while MB Architecture, based in New York, was a two-water concrete house and a garage. light wood simple volumes rustic appearance.