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Designer Pamela Singer opens the doors to her own home, one of six 
to be featured in the annual Temple Israel Sisterhood House Tour.

I 

don’
t ever want someone to walk into a home and say, 
‘
That’
s a Pamela Singer,’
” says the designer and owner 
of Pamela Singer & Associates. “Each home should 
speak of the people living in it — not of the designer. 
And I’
m really good at finding out what clients want to 
come home to at the end of the day and how to put it all 
together. I can walk into a room and imagine it totally 
finished.” 

So, when she walked into a 25-year-old house, minutes 
from Downtown Birmingham, she knew exactly how 
every detail would look when her work was done — this 
time she was the client.
Singer had lived for 15 years with her husband, 
Richard Nodel, in an Orchard Lake home designed by 
famed local architect Irving Tobocman, known for his 
contemporary style.

Modern Love

26TH-ANNUAL TEMPLE ISRAEL 
SISTERHOOD HOUSE TOUR
The home of Pam and Richard Nodel, 
designed by the homeowner, known 
professionally as Pamela Singer, is one 
of six to be featured in the 26th-annu-
al Temple Israel Sisterhood House Tour, 
with designers including Carrie Long, 
Richard Ross, Jeffrey King and Jill 
Schumacher. 
The tour will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 
Wednesday, May 29. Advance tickets 
are $30; tour-day tickets are $35. For 
details, visit temple-israel.org/
sisterhood or call (248) 682-4855.

Iron-framed glass doors open to the living 
room, with Singer’
s office behind. Custom 
draperies on the soaring windows soften 
the majestic height of the room, allowing 
the couple’
s collections — a painting 
of a woman in a wedding dress by Alex 
Katz, black-and-white photographs by 
Donald Sultan, a red “hand” chair by Pedro 
Friedeberg — to take pride of place.

Richard and Pam (Singer) Nodel in front of her 
home office.

Singer tapped John Morgan to collaborate on cabinetry throughout the 

home. In the kitchen, the pair designed columns to flank either side of the 

refrigerator to display a collection of pottery. The 14-foot stainless island 

is topped with honed marble, which waterfalls to the floor on both sides. 

The same marble climbs the entire wall.

The foyer’
s black-stained wide-plank oak flooring is echoed in the black-

stained wood and Plexiglass lining the staircase. 

LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
BRETT MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHER

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