Fashion Designer Todd Snyder Is Behind These Perfectly Rustic Maine Bungalows

Todd Snyder simply can’t give up Maine. The Iowa-born designer behind the eponymous New York Metropolis–primarily based menswear label started visiting the Pine State again in the summertime of 2019, whereas doing analysis for his debut collaboration with L.L. Bean. These first journeys resulted in a much-celebrated Fall 2020 runway fantasia of orange-sole duck boots, emerald-hued corduroy suiting, camo-lined puffer vests, and different iterations of New England outdoor gear gone extraordinarily excessive type.

That assortment, in flip, led to his immersive design for a Todd Snyder x L.L. Bean two-bedroom treetop lodge at Hidden Pond, a luxe Kennebunkport, Maine, resort set amid 60 acres of birch-dotted forest. Since then, Snyder has saved coming again to Maine for extra, creating a number of further collections with L.L. Bean and, most just lately, debuting new interiors for 20 one-bedroom bungalows at Hidden Pond.

“I fell in love with Maine once I began arising right here,” Snyder says, “and I’ve discovered a lot extra about it since then.”

This time round, tasked with designing the 650-square-foot bungalows at Hidden Pond, Snyder noticed it as an “alternative to essentially take a deep dive into Maine aesthetics,” he says. “What’s so fascinating and noteworthy to me about this place is that it’s so various, space by space. You drive half an hour, and it’s completely completely different.”

To rejoice this vary, Snyder—who labored with Hidden Pond’s in-house design staff, Krista Stokes and Mark Cotto—created a trio of seems, each tied to a special facet of the panorama that has so completely captivated him: the rocky shoreline, the hovering mountains, and the forested countryside.

For the coastal bungalows, he spun a light-weight and vibrant, cool and breezy story, with impartial sand and low-contrast blue hues, whitewashed woods, pale sisal rugs, and an oyster shell-pattern wallpaper primarily based on a decoupage design by his buddy John Derian. He took specific inspiration from central Maine’s Mt. Katahdin when devising the mountain bungalows, enjoying with cognac-hued leathers, darkish blue velvet, and a William Morris acanthus leaf print on the partitions to channel a luxed-up log cabin look.