ADRIAN The architectural logic of a skyscraper is designed to conquer the sky, but a home requires a different kind of foundation. It requires deep roots. Two years after the white marble altar in Amalfi, the glass penthouse in Soho had simply run out of room for the life we were building. The city was still our engine, the Vesper network still dictated the financial pulse of the East Coast, and Olivia’s position as Creative Director of Haute Couture at Vance & Co. was an unassailable global legacy. But the concrete grid of Manhattan no longer offered the quiet, expansive perimeter her spirit deserved. So, I bought her an estate. The Vesper manor sat on a secluded, heavily wooded cliffside along the North Shore of Long Island, positioned perfectly where the rolling green lawns met the dark, rhythmic waves of the Atlantic. It wasn't a historic, drafty fortress; it was a modern masterpiece of glass, fieldstone, and industrial steel, designed by the finest architects in Europe to
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