471 Fire Island Blvd Est.1980
Architecture and design have always been part of Fire Island Pines history. Horace Gifford, Scott Bromley just to name a couple of architects who have put their stamp on the Pines. However many designers like Michael Schaible and Robert Bray limited their skill to only their own residence, creating their own vision for themselves.
Bray and Schaible are a pair of interior designers associated with the High Tech design movement of the late Seventies and early Eighties, a minimalist sensibility that favored materials like chrome, black leather, and Lucite.
Michael Schaible & Robert Bray 1993
With all the creativity in the world of Architecture and Design in the Pines many of these home would appear in national magazines like Architectural Digest as seen here.
The home is also published in a German architectural magazine.
NYC Apartment…
Michael Schaible would get involved in the community with the “Beach” party in 1979.
A 1981 Interview with Michael Schaible & Robert Bray below:
Afterleaving Fire Island Michael settled in Mexico designing his own home again revisited by Architectural Digest in 2008.
