ELLE DECOR (Digital)

ELLE DECOR (Digital)

1 Issue, November 2019

NO STONE UNTURNED

STEVEN GAMBREL BRINGS CANDY-COLORED DRAMA—AND HIS MOST KILLER KITCHEN YET—TO A REVIVALIST MANSE OUTSIDE CHICAGO.
NO STONE UNTURNED
WHEN THE CHICAGO-BASED architect R. Michael Graham was asked to design a grand, traditional house in the city’s suburbs for an aesthetically fearless couple who had together built an esteemed real estate empire, he knew one thing: It could not be a pale period imitation. There were already too many of those around, teardowns replaced with poorly executed, ostentatious mansions—lots of square footage with little soul or taste. From their years in the business, the clients understood what it meant to be respectfully committed to a project of such scale, and they knew what cut corners looked like; they were too sophisticated to accept a compromise. “I was aware from the beginning that I wanted to create something 100 percent real,” says Graham, who took his inspiration from the early-20th-century…
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