Ravine Resident Design

This luxury home designed by Grunsfeld Shafer Architects. Built on a ravine and bluff in Northfield, Illinois. Ravine Resident designed for a family of four, the house features exterior walls clad in weathered edge Fondulac stone, and large expanses of glass overlooking Lake Michigan.





Interior floors are large slabs of polished, book-matched travertine, intentionally selected to contrast with the weathered edge exterior stonework. The interiors are predominantly rift-sawn Oak woodwork with white walls to accommodate the owner’s art collection; and high ceilings in the major rooms gives the house a lightweight, ethereal feeling.