THE HANS AT HOME

Laetitia Han had a Proustian moment when she walked through the doors of Tre Fontane for the first time in 2014. Designed and built by architect Marion Sims Wyeth in 1924, the Estate Section abode was Wyeth’s personal home in Palm Beach and a show-case for the residential work he could do for his clients. But for Laetitia, a native French-woman, it satisfied a sense of home that had been instilled in her by her parents, who cherished their family residence and long dinners together under the same roof.

“It smelled like my grandmother’s house, but in a good way,” Laetitia says of Tre Fontane, likening her first time inside to the moment in Marcel Proust’s when the narrator eats a madeleine