EAST HAMPTON, NY — Joseph and his coat of many colors might have felt right at home in this architectural masterpiece: One of the most colorful listings ever, there's a multi-hued home with 52 hues in East Hampton that was believed to have the key to immortality.

Artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa envisioned the residence, called the "Life-Span Extending Villa," according to a post on Realtor.com.

When asked to design a wing on the home in the 1990s, the pair designed a space that represented a belief in "reversible destiny," which embraces the tenet that an "off-balance environment that challenges the mind and body. . . will keep you forever young," the post reads.

According to the Realtor.com listing, the artists who envisioned the Bioscleave house, located in Springs, were proteges of the surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp.

"Here is a singular, rare masterwork — the only house they designed and built to test 50 years of research through this experimental, provocative laboratory. It is an 'architectural body' studio-house — a stimulating environment for healthy living," the post reads.

There are two connected houses, including the "back" Bioscleave House and the "front" original A-frame house.

The 2,700-sq. ft. back house, a modernist, cubist design, is connected by a new link to the original and also architecturally significant 1960s "front" 900 sq. ft. house, designed by Harvard architect Carl Koch, the listing said.

The front house "has a living room with fireplace, two bedrooms, one and one-half baths, full basement, oil heating and air conditioning, and floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and windows, according to the listing.

In total, the two houses and the "in-between" link "form an architectural collage" with 3,400 square feet, four bedrooms, two and a half baths, a studio/study room, a traditional living room with fireplace and a large, sunken "Italian" country kitchen, a raised dining and work platform — surrounded by four of Arakawa/Gin's "landing sites," large, high and open cubic volumes, the listing says.

"This is a rare work for living life as perpetual exercise — in an environmental juxtaposition for puzzling about living life as art and art as living life — inside and out — and, as Arakawa/Gins believed, possibly forever," the listing states.

For sale exclusively by Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons.

To see the full listing on Realtor.com, click here.

Photo, listing courtesy Realtor.com.

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