"In April, the 32-year-old artist invited a group of friends to move in and restore the graying home. For two months, she and Grace Brese, Fiona Gorman, Hana Hart, and Lærke Lillelund (former classmates from the Savannah College of Art and Design) plus Blayne Pearce Planit ­feverishly spruced up the space and added new furnishings before the first renters touched down for the season. A built-in sofa was made for the living room and covered with denim."
"McGregor and his wife, Karol, had been ­renters in the historically gay enclave before ­deciding to buy a sandy parcel for $6,000 where they could build a retreat one house back from the ocean for their family of eight. "He bought less than an acre," West says. "I feel he could have bought the whole island. But he bought just what he needed." McGregor enlisted Gifford, whose modernist cedar-and-glass houses would come to define the architectural look of the P"
August West spent summers at the 1966 Horace Gifford beach house in Fire Island Pines owned by her grandfather, Paul McGregor. McGregor ran a noted hair salon on St. Marks Place in the 1960s and 1970s, cut Jane Fonda's shag for Klute, and later made driftwood sculptures. After McGregor's death in 2013, the family Airbnb-ed the two-story Coastguard Walk house and replaced period furniture with inexpensive items. In April, West invited friends and former SCAD classmates to live in and restore the graying home, adding new furnishings and crafting a built-in denim-covered sofa from collected denim.
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