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NOMAD Takes the Hamptons

The roving art fair has already captivated the three-comma crowd with exclusive design offerings in rarefied settings—and now, despite recent turbulence, it’s setting up shop in the East Coast’s ultimate summer enclave.

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An interior from NOMAD Hamptons 2026 at The Watermill Center, New York. Photo: Courtesy of NOMAD
Ingrid Abramovitch
June 23, 2026

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Last summer, as he was making preparations to debut NOMAD Abu Dhabi in a decommissioned modernist airport, Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte announced a major new chapter for the roving art and design fair that he co-founded in 2017. For the first time, the event for deep-pocketed collectors would be coming to the Hamptons. Not included in the announcement, however, was the fact that NOMAD would be held without its other co-founder, Giorgio Pace. The two partners had disentangled a few weeks earlier. Pace, a luxury consultant with deep ties to the art and design worlds, was leaving to start his own cultural platform, Der Pavilion, based in St. Moritz. That meant Bellavance-Lecompte, a Montreal-born, Milan-based architect and curator, was now solely in charge of the fair.