The Maidstone

The Hotel

The Maidstone occupies a restored 1860s wooden Greek-Revival mansion at 207 Main Street in East Hampton village — three blocks east of Main Beach Road, two blocks south of the East Hampton village green, and on the same Main Street tree-lined heritage corridor as the East Hampton Library, the Old Hook Mill, and the Mulford Farm historic district. The property has operated as an inn for most of the last hundred years; was acquired by the Swedish hospitality investor Jenni Lukac in 2009; and has been operated under her direction continuously for sixteen years. Lukac brought her Stockholm hospitality background to the property's reconception, and the result is the only fully Nordic-design boutique in the Hamptons.

The 19 keys are spread across the original Main Street mansion (12 rooms in the historic core, the heritage-room category) and a small contemporary Carriage House annex (7 rooms in a restored 1880s carriage house behind the main building). Each of the 19 keys is decorated to a different theme based on a Swedish or Danish cultural figure or design tradition (the 'Greta' room references Greta Garbo's Stockholm childhood; the 'Hans Christian' room references Andersen's fairy-tale tradition; the 'Borgen' references the Copenhagen government district), and the interior register is the Lukac-Stockholm-design vocabulary applied throughout — pale-painted wood paneling, Marimekko-and-Pia-Wallén-derived textile commissions, mid-century Scandinavian-modernist furniture pieces curated through Lukac's Stockholm contacts, and the deliberate decision to keep the heritage exterior fully Greek-Revival while making the interior a Nordic-design statement.

Operationally The Maidstone runs the four-star East-Hampton-village register. The Living Room — the in-house all-day restaurant in the historic mansion's drawing room — runs the modernist-Scandinavian register that the Lukac kitchen team has built over fifteen years (smoked salmon and gravlax, herring tasting flights, Danish-bakery breakfast pastries, the open-faced sandwich smørrebrød programme). The property does not run a fine-dining tasting-menu venue — most evening dinners are taken at Nick & Toni's (the East-Hampton-village Italian institution, two blocks west), at 1770 House (the historic Greek-Revival sister-property restaurant, three blocks east), or at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. The breakfast operation is the property's signature daily-routine asset.

What gives The Maidstone the considered East-Hampton-village position — and the structural alternative to the Topping Rose Bridgehampton kitchen-driven stay or the Baron's Cove Sag Harbor harbour-front register — is the small-footprint Nordic-design heritage combination at the East-Hampton-village walking core. The 19-key footprint makes the property feel substantially smaller than Topping Rose (22 keys but with a larger garden-cottage block) or Baron's Cove (67 keys); the Lukac decorative register is structurally non-American and gives the property a literary-cultural distinction that the rest of the East End cluster lacks; and the village walking proposition is the most-considered in the Hamptons (Main Beach Road, the East Hampton Cinema, Round Swamp Farm, and the Springs literary district are all within 10 minutes). For a quiet anniversary, a literary solo retreat that values Garbo and Andersen as the property's decorative anchors, or a small Hamptons stay that wants the village core without the larger-property volume, The Maidstone is the considered choice.

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