Hadley Wiggins, owner of North Found & Co., a vintage and antique general store in Peconic that features unique and time-honored home ideas, had only visited the North Fork once when she and her husband decided to buy a house on impulse. "Over the years Daniele and I have experienced some wonderfully impulsive moments, somehow always sharing the same deep confidence for the strength of an idea," she said. "We purchased our home on the North Fork after spending one afternoon, our very first visit to the area, looking at homes and never having spent a night on North Fork. Similarly we secured the store within hours of noticing its availability — both leaps of faith having resulted in some of the richest and most rewarding experiences of our lives." The leap of faith has led Wiggins and her husband Daniele Marin on a journey of the heart and a business they consider an extension of home. Wiggins and Marin, who spend half their time in New York, consider the North Fork home. The area, she said, "holds a very special place in our hearts." Wiggins, born in San Francisco, and Marin, in Milan, both have other careers — she as an interior designer and he as a clothing designer. "The lifestyle expression of North Found is definitely central to our design sensibilities though we each explore a broad spectrum of design aesthetics in our work," she said. Of the locale, tucked away on Peconic Lane, Wiggins said, "Peconic chose us. We have loved visiting the lane for years and had always believed there was something truly special about this store space. We noticed the store's availability at the end of October and opened a month later." The shops is a display of the rich past and today's treasures. "The store contents and environment are in one part a continuation of our home and at the same time a window into our lifestyle fantasies," Wiggins said. "Our merchandise is chosen for no other reason but that we, Daniele and I, would purchase and place the items in our own home and that they inspire us to imagine and create. Along the way cohesive color or lifestyle stories are created in store and are a reflection of the ideas and themes we are attracted by — hiking in the Alps, curling up by the fire in a log cabin, entertaining guests with the lighting and aroma of the holidays." Some have criticized Wiggins' curation approach, she said, suggesting instead that they carry "what people want to buy" or what's "trendy" or "hot."