bohemian reverie; Jacqueline Schnabel transformed an all-American Hamptons house into an exotic family home that showcases her eclectic brilliance.

Byline: Hamish Bowles

We're in the middle of this thing that gets bigger every day," Jacqueline Schnabel told Vogue in the early eighties, speaking of living in the eye of the storm created by her husband, Julian's, "cyclonic success" in that electric art-world moment. "We've had to change our telephone number four, five times already. The phone never stops ringing." And so, to escape the city's relentless demands and with their infant daughters, Lola and Stella, in tow, the couple rented a house set between the roiling ocean and the flat farm fields of Wainscott in the bucolic Hamptons. One day Julian, who had set up an alfresco studio on the tennis court, went ...