By Donna Bulseco
For an architect, each house is a kind of puzzle to piece together, composed of raw land, strong, elegant materials, and—most variable of all—the desires and needs of the client. In the case of Driftwood, a house on a densely forested site in Bridgehampton, one piece of the puzzle was “creating some grandeur when you pull up to the house,” says architect Blaze Makoid, whose Bridgehampton-based firm worked with homeowners Derick Brown, director of Grey Matter Interior Design in New York City, and his husband, Ron, who works for an asset management company, to create a welcoming “sense of arrival.”
