Entry

The lower floor houses a spa, gym, and office. A built-in bathroom by Espace Cuisine includes a sauna.

North Court at dusk

The home was designed to complement the clients' extensive contemporary art collection. The pendant lighting fixture is by Lindsey Adelman Studio.

By incorporating wood slats into the stair wall, light from above is able to pass farther into the space between levels.

The walls are painted with zero-VOC biodegradable E-Color paint.

Entry facing West towards Lake Michigan

Entry looking North

The firm specified a museum reveal around the windows, doors, and cabinetry, as well as over the flush baseboard. This keeps the scheme minimal and creates a “very simple tracery where you have a punctuation in the architecture, and then you reveal back to the soft white drywall walls,” says Klymson.

The partial basement holds storage and an entertainment room. A skylight over the stairs floods the area with natural light.

Of the counter material, Klymson says, “It's really one of the best Caesarstone products that I've seen out in the market.”

The kitchen features custom white oak kitchen cabinets stained light gray and Caesarstone rugged concrete countertops.

Architect Catherine Milanese wanted to use a single material—fir plywood—for the stringer, the stairs, and the risers, visually integrating the stairway with the wood box that contains the mezzanine level.