BEACH PARTY

TEAMING UP WITH DESIGNER OLIVER FURTH, ARCHITECT CHET CALLAHAN CRAFTS A VIVID SEASIDE PLAYGROUND FOR HIS OWN FAMILY

- MAYER RUS

IN THE LIVING ROOM, CURVED TACCHINI SOFAS IN PIERRE FREY FABRIC WRAP AROUND A MAX LAMB COCKTAIL TABLE. THADDEUS WOLFE FLUORESCENT LIGHT SCULPTURE; VINTAGE KROGENÆS MØBLER STOOLS; MINJAE KIM SCONCE; AND L.L.BEAN RUG. PAINTING BY JUNE EDMONDS, CERAMIC VESSEL ON FIREPLACE BY KRZYSZTOF STRZELECKI. THE STONE FIREPLACE SURROUND IS ORIGINAL TO THE HOUSE.

You don't see a lot of super-trad braided wool rugs from L.L.Bean in the contemporary homes featured in AD-especially ones paired with, say, a chunky Max Lamb polystyrene table and a Thaddeus Wolfe fluorescent light sculpture.

But such aesthetic impudence is par for the course at the kaleidoscopic seaside pleasure dome of architect Chet Callahan, his husband, finance executive Jacinto Hernandez, and their teenage sons, Hernan and Noe. Much of the design's strange alchemy can be ascribed to the split personality of the program.

ABOVE AN INDIA MAHDAVI TABLE THROUGH RALPH PUCCI AND A PIERRE GAUTIER-DELAYE STOOL STAND NEXT TO A CUSTOM DAYBED WITH AN ANDRÉ RICARD SCONCE. GLASS SCULPTURE ON WALL BY FRED WILSON. RIGHT THE DEN IS OUTFITTED WITH A FRITZ HANSEN SOFA, PILLOWS IN A CASAMANCE GROUP VELVET, AND A PAIR OF VINTAGE DANISH COCKTAIL TABLES. ARTWORKS BY JEFFREY GIBSON (LEFT) AND JONATHAN BALDOCK.

The house functions as both an intimate family getaway and a polychromatic playground for more adult divertissements. "We wanted to create a home that radiates happiness, a place that celebrates queer and BIPOC art, family, and community," says Callahan, principal of the LA-based firm Chet Architecture.