House beautiful | April 2021
Written by Hadley Mendelsohn
Photography by Hall + Merrick Photography
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This Sophisticated High-Rise Is Full of Clever Design Tricks for Busy Families
It’s 10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday, and 51 floors above downtown Chicago, a lawyer and pediatrician couple are settling into a long day of Zoom calls (for themselves, their teenage daughter, and their visiting college-age son)—but with a whole wall of windows overlooking Lake Michigan to get them through it.
"I wanted to bring some of that color in for them," says designer Bruce Fox, whom the family called on to do the brand-new condo’s interiors when they purchased it (the new build is an impressive building by the waterfront designed by Dan Lobitz of Robert A.M. Stern Architects), after just having returned from a six-year stint in London. "The lake can be moody and gray but also a vibrant blue."
