In Southampton, a Collector's House Becomes the Showcase for Patrick McGrath's Eye

A Southampton house belonging to an art collector is the latest setting for the work of designer Patrick McGrath, a talent clearly on the rise. The house doesn't follow a single style or period. Its appeal is in how freely the pieces are combined. That is McGrath's strength: putting together things that weren't made to sit side by side, and making the result look intended rather than accidental. He is busy on several fronts at once. His gallery is getting bigger, he is releasing the first furniture collection under his own name, and his list of interiors commissions keeps growing. The architect and the property's price aren't on the record, so neither appears here. What is on the record is a house on the East End that shows where one of the region's rising designers is headed.

With reporting from Elle Decor.