In the adjacent dining room, separated from the living room by a series of arches held aloft by Corinthian columns, the space revolves around a 12-foot custom Egg Collective dining table, sinuous wooden Aranha chairs from Branca, and a Lindsey Adelman Branching Disc chandelier. “Having to work with these big spaces meant finding the right proportions,” Erwin explains. “The volume of each room is so massive that we had to be specific about each piece we put in the room.”
For the clients, balancing the home’s natural grandeur with more intimate spaces was equally as important. “They love to entertain, so they wanted a home that could host everything from a black-tie event to Sunday fundays, when they have a bunch of families over,” Erwin says. For game and movie nights, she designed them a low-lit den, where a vintage Willy Rizzo chrome and wood bar and matching games table evoke the feeling of 1970s glamour.
Overall, it remains very much a family house at heart. Erwin replaced the kitchen with a functional, Bulthaup-designed system with fuss-free Cosentino countertops and a sun-drenched breakfast nook where they can all sit, tucked-in on a U-shaped banquette, to share meals or work on homework. Indeed, occupying a piece of history doesn’t necessarily mean living in a museum. “With four young kids, they didn’t want a ‘don’t touch’ house,” she adds. “The furniture had to be usable and family-friendly—somewhere the kids could run around and make a mess.”
