Robert Lym Jr., an architect known for aiding I.M. Pei, contributed to various significant buildings but chose to remain out of the spotlight, focusing on interior design until his retirement in 2002. A college friend of artist Alexander Calder, Lym was selective in his design projects, creating only three homes under his name. One of his less-known creations, a simple cedar-walled house in Water Mill, remains largely undiscovered, described by critic Alastair Gordon as a mystery with little information available, emphasizing Lym's low-profile legacy in architecture.
The simple cedar-walled home at 126 Noyac Path in Water Mill was not designed to be a calling card. Invisible from the street for most of the year, the 1971 house is unknown even to most locals and doesn't seem to have ever been published in a magazine.
It's kind of a mystery, says the critic Alastair Gordon, who researched the house for his 2001 book on modern homes in the Hamptons but never could find anything about it.
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