80 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM love a house where you can get light from three different sides,” Michael says. Here, light pours in from the side yard through the steel and glass doors, the skylights and from the light fixture. It renders a soft light without glare and creates a calm, beautiful space. They achieved this effortless look with extra framing, installed to suspend the fixture with its huge escutcheon between the skylights Michael made. The home also features a custom Lutron lighting system that operates fixtures and shades, to set scenes. While it sounds theatrical, its modes create natural ambience for Cooking, Entertaining, Relaxing, even Cleaning. {home & design} A custom fixture runs the length of the hall, illuminating the home’s gallery, flanked by a freeform neon piece, and a Mickey and Minnie work by Mr. Brainwash. Near the dining room, giant multi-colored metal Chiclets spill from a three-foot box, and various paintings bedeck the walls. Daphneé’s preferred room, the corridor, calls for visitors to slow down and pause, rather than rush right through. Michael refers to it as the “spine” of the home, delineating the private spaces—bedrooms and offices are on one side, public rooms on the other—and creating a grounding balance in an otherwise open floor plan. In addition to staging their prized artworks, the homeowners requested more green space and greater connectivity to the outdoors. Light-loving Michael says the size of the house enabled them to use a lot of glass corners and bifold doors. From the bar between the great room and the dining room, guests can sip aperitifs to the soothing sight and sound of the water feature that Daphneé designed. Its contrasting shades of slate slabs invite the eye, and the gentle
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