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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford The Bibliophile Fits across the modular LetterBefore Fire Island became our home, Horace Gifford transformed it. In the 1960s, Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that reimagined coastal modernism cedar and glass pavilions that merged exuberant post Stonewall liberation with rigorous architectural discipline. His A frame geometries and improvisational structures created a sustainable modernism attuned to barrier island landscapes and the rhythms of tidal living. First published