One the the pleasures of the last few days has been staying in East House, recently constructed to a design by Peter Rose, an architect who teaches at Harvard.   A nicely judged, asymmetric, neo-Louis Kahn essay in concrete, wood and abstract spaces, with floors of Swiss stone from Vals, walls of douglas fir and Alaskan cedar and walls which open up to the sound of the sea.

This is the ground plan, which demonstrates how the rooms have been disaggregated from the central axis, allowing views through the centre and cross axis of the house:

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We completed our short stay on Martha’s Vineyard wholly appropriately by attending an open-air feast in honour of Bob Daniels, a ninety-year old supplier of vegetables at the local market.   The feast was organised by Chris Fischer of the Beach Plum Inn, with wine supplied by Andrew Mariani of Sonoma County in California (his parents are the main suppliers of US walnuts).   This is the view of the sea from where we were eating:

This is the menu:

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