About Lucien Vita

Lucien Vita is the founder of Vita Design Group in Westport, Connecticut. The firm provides architecture, construction and interior design under one roof. The studio’s work spans Fairfield County: houses on the water, older houses worth recovering rather than replacing, and modern houses made from a few simple volumes.

This site shows those houses closely, one at a time: the rooms, the materials, the reasoning behind each decision, and the people who made each house.

What you’ll find here

The houses are arranged by the setting each one answers to, in three chapters: Waterfront, Older houses and Modern. Each chapter opens with a short essay on what that setting asks of a house. The houses follow, each with a page of its own on its rooms, its materials and the thinking behind them, and a short list of the people who made it: architect, builder, interior designer, photographer.

Several of these houses were built by other firms, among them Coastal Luxury Homes and New England Coastal Builders, and their pages say so. Where Lucien has talked about a house in an interview, in New England Home or Design + Decor, his words appear on its page.

Three sites, one practice

lucienvita.com is about Lucien himself: his training, how he came to found the firm, and his point of view, in his own words. Read it for the person. lucienvita.com

This house collection is about the work, in depth.

vdgarch.com is the firm’s own site, with its full portfolio, team and services. vdgarch.com

The firm

Lucien founded the firm in 2006, under the name Lucien Vita Design; it took the name Vita Design Group in 2013. Several houses from that first decade were built by other firms to the studio’s designs.

In 2016 the firm became an architecture-led design-build practice. Its construction arm, VitaBuilt, was formed that year, with Dave DeNomme, Lucien Vita and Maria Vita as its principals. Dave DeNomme leads construction; before VitaBuilt he led New England Coastal Builders, which is credited with Lucien on HOBI Awards for two remodels, in 2013 and 2014. An interior design arm, Vita Interiors, followed in 2022, with Cynthia Vengrow as interiors principal. The firm’s twentieth anniversary fell in September 2026.

The houses on this site span all of those years, from projects built by outside firms to houses the firm designed, built and furnished itself.