John Morgan, owner of Perspectives Custom Cabinetry in Royal Oak, created open-sided glass cabinets to display china collections from pre-Revolutionary Russia.
Cabinets and the island hide smart features like warming drawers, a programmable built-in coffee maker and plenty of storage. Honed soapstone covers the coun-
tertops and climbs the backsplash up to the ceiling. A custom hood, fabricated by Tom Myers of Gallery Steel in Waterford, is crafted from metal and painted white.
"There's so much white here that we were able to play off it with black in a bigger way," Weinstein says. A modernized picnic table is lined with white embossed
faux-leather (read: child-friendly) chairs; the barstools are the same.
A fireplace crafted of wavy-ribbed cippolino marble becomes a sculptural focus in the living room. Weinstein scaled the
furniture down to a 1920s style to suit the room's more intimate dimensions. The homeowner wanted her children to learn
to play chess with their grandfather, so Weinstein placed a zig-zag legged game table with cozy swivel chairs in the window
bay. A custom coffee table has a steel base and is topped with painted glass. A criss-cross sofa table layers wood into the
mix of the room's materials.
A playful Jonathan Adler sheep-
skin stool lends a seat in the
shoe niche, where the homeown-
ers' collection of Jimmy Choo,
Christian Laboutin and Prada
favorites are displayed.
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