A Home with a View to the Future
Architect Dirk Denison and designer Michael Richman taught a Beaux Arts Chicago co-op a modern thing or two.
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The craving for killer views has inspired many homeowners to forsake their ground-bound abodes for something that shows a little sky. When Chicago businessman Michael Alper decided to trade in his 1894 Gold Coast megahouse for a lakeside flat, he wanted the most dazzling vistas to be the ones from his home office, because, he reasoned, “that’s where I spend most of my time.”
Moving also marked a new chapter in his life. After he and his wife, Pamela, finished an unstinting historic restoration of their 25,000-square-foot home and filled it with Biedermeier antiques and contemporary art, she passed away. Eventually, Alper observes, “I was ready for something very different: someplace open, airy and much more modern, filled with comfortable furniture.”
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