The 1920s French Norman–style house was designed by Polhemus & Coffin. A+M+L Architecture was the architect of record for the renovation. Landscape design by Miranda Brooks.

Inside a Luxuriously Calm Southampton Estate

AD100 firm Atelier AM and landscape designer Miranda Brooks deliver a master class on the twin virtues of beauty and restraint

By Mayer Rus
Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson
Styled by Michael Reynolds
December 6, 2023

Calm is a rare commodity these days. Amid the constant barrage of images pulsing from our phones and computers, the cacophony of indignant voices shrieking across social media, and the lingering disquietude of post-pandemic life, peace and quiet have become the new currency of luxury. Alexandra and Michael Misczynski of the AD100 design firm Atelier AM are masters of calm. As standard-bearers of the increasingly superannuated concepts of quality and connoisseurship, they craft homes in which tranquility and serious beauty coexist in happy harmony. Regardless of the specific site or architectural context of their work—landmark estate, modernist gem, high-rise penthouse—the pillars of the couple’s practice remain unchanged: reverence for history and patina, clarity of form, subtlety of tone and composition, and a subdued yet distinctly contemporary spirit.