When TWA pilot Eugene John Tallarico started to hand build his home in Montauk in 1976, he knew it would be an experiment.
Influenced by the work of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic dome structures, Tallarico set out to create an ultramodern-meets-cabin-in-the-woods retreat on a woodsy, isolated plot at 54 E. Lake Drive.
The result was a fully custom, 2,000-square-foot, cedar-shake dome home with three bedrooms, three bathrooms and massive windows inspired by an airplane cockpit. “He would pitch a tent and camp right in the middle of it while he worked,” says Gene Tallarico of his late father.
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