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From a brilliant artist’s mind comes her brilliantly designed home and studio.

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22 Up in Ardnamare

A not-so-big, perfectly designed home with a Lake Michigan view as big as the horizon.

32 Enlightened Lakeside

Sleek, clean-lined and full of light and views. This is not your grandmother’s cottage.

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It is nearing our printing deadline as I write this, and I can’t help a bit of reflection on this issue of Northern Home & Cottage. My inbox is full of correspondence with the delightful homeowners and builders who helped make this magazine what it is. As usual, producing this issue has broadened my style/product horizons: I’ve learned about cool new windows that seal tighter when the wind blows, I saw a slab of coral-colored marble that made me swoon and I fell in love with the idea of an unbroken plane of porcelain flooring that continues from the living area through the outdoor terrace and up the fireplace facade.

All of that and more, yet, when I close my eyes I see water ... so clearly I can almost feel its ebb and flow.

My mind flashes images of the expansive Lake Michigan view from one of our three featured homes, this one atop a steep hill in Arcadia. I am dazzled by the brilliant blue of Torch Lake on the August day I visited the home in the story Enlightened Lakeside. And in my mind’s eye, I see the colorful boats that float blissfully from the ceiling (hung by wires) of artist Elizabeth Fergus-Jean’s studio in Harbor Springs. There’s more—a roiling early winter storm whose liquid gray mountains sank a schooner off Leland in 1854. In 1978, another storm parted the sand and up came the Lark. A young man named Pat McKee obtained a permit from the state to salvage the wood (it has long since become illegal to take anything from a wreck).

The old boards sat in storage for decades, until Pat decided to turn the old boards into handsome clocks and benches—see them on our Northern Style spread this month.

In remembering the water, I saw clearly how so much of what we build and create in Northern Michigan aches to capture the beauty, drama and essence of water. Water is to us what the desert is to Sedona, the hills to San Francisco, the mountains to Denver. It defines our lifestyle and, well, our style. How cool is that?

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STONE THAT ROCKS

By Elizabeth Edwards

At his new Stratus Marble & Granite location across from the Traverse City Baseball Stadium, owner Brad Jurik has more than enough space to do what he loves: import the planet’s most beautiful slabs of natural rock to Northern Michigan and fabricate them into countertops, wall hangings, fireplace facades, floors and more. We checked in with Brad to learn more about what he does.

I felt like a kid in a candy store touring your fabrication plant—the colors and the patterns are just phenomenal! What am I seeing?

Granite, quartzite, onyx, slate, travertine, marble, limestone, labradorite, basalt …

Where does it all come from?

The material is literally from all over the world. Fifty percent of the world’s granite come from Brazil right now, but we also have material from India, Mexico, Italy, China, Canada, Madagascar …

Give us a quick primer on the best way to use some of these rocks: Granite comes in all patterns and colors and holds up well in the kitchen.

Quartzite is a natural rock (Quartz is the trademark name for man-made material that consists of quartz that has been crunched up and glued back together).

It is beautiful and desirable from the standpoint that it has the visual characteristics of marble—with flowing veins. Like granite, it holds up well in kitchens.

Marble is used often for its beauty but it is minerally different than granite and acid can etch it.

Limestone is actually a younger marble. It is just not fully crystallized, and it is also sensitive to acid.

Using it in bathrooms is a less of a concern than in the kitchen but there are ways of treating it so that it is highly resistant.

Onyx, while composed of the same minerals as marble, is generally translucent. When it is backlight it is just gorgeous.

Okay, so you get shipments of these hunky slabs to Stratus. How do they make their way to people’s homes?

Once a customer visits and selects a stone, we come to your house and make a digital template of where the slab will be used. Then we program that template into our robot friend to cut the pieces. We have a machine that has both a diamond saw and water jet.

The saw cuts faster than the water jet and is good for straight cuts and mild curves. The water jet is for more complicated cuts. Some of the slabs make a pit stop for a custom-edge on a different machine.

From that point we go from The Jetsons to the The Flintstones—meaning we polish each slab by hand.

There are machines that will do it, but if there are any flaws the machine just polishes them in. When we do it by hand we can do touch-ups and fixes.

Working with this stone is obviously about fine home design—but it is also about something much more ancient. Do you find you are conscious of that?

Oh yes, all the time. Our Carrera marble is from the same quarry as the marble from Michelangelo’s statue of David.

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living art ELIZABETH FERGUS-JEAN CREATES ART THAT IS EQUALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL. AND THAT’S JUST THE WAY SHE DESIGNED HER HARBOR SPRINGS HOME AND STUDIO.

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ARTIST ELIZAB ETH FERGUS -J E AN ’ S MEMORY BOATS “ FLOAT” B ELOW THE CEILING IN THE STU DIO SHE SHARES WITH HER H USBAND, PHOTOG R APHER AND MASTER PRINTER , JOHN FERGUS -J E AN .

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ELIZAB ETH DESIG NED THE L ABYRINTH THAT SHE WALKS AS A PART OF HER DAILY MEDITATION .

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To stand in the big, open studio (with a fire dancing in the field-

Elizabeth Fergus-Jean and her husband, John, begins at

stone fireplace on the cool autumn day I visited) is to understand

the pale aqua, wood-slat front door that is set in a stone

that there is so much more here than meets the eye. A fact that is not

tower—a tower that is, and is meant to be, reminiscent of Bollingen

surprising given that beyond her Masters in Fine Art and her subse-

Tower in Switzerland, built by the famous psychologist Carl Jung.

quent career as an exquisitely skilled artist, Elizabeth has a Ph.D in

Enter the tower and look up to the peaked clapboard ceiling where

Mythological Studies—a degree that emphasized depth psychology,

tiny colored boats (that are in fact hung from the ceiling) seem to

defined loosely as the study of unconscious mental processes. Which

float in the air. They are a part of a project-series Elizabeth calls

brings us back to the tower, and its “shoutout,” as Elizabeth calls it,

Memory Boats. “Boats being a metaphor for the journey through life

to Carl Jung.

and onto the next life,” she explains.

Beyond all of that, Elizabeth also studied architecture. Which is

Through the doorway and into the spacious studio, more boats

why when she and John had the chance to build the home and studio

greet you; most are life-sized and hung on thin wire from the ceiling.

of their dreams in the forest north of Harbor Springs, she knew she

Each is unique, colorful and meant to convey a message. The boat

would design the structure, in her inspired and meticulous way, right

Elizabeth is working on the day I visited, Pining, is painted with

down to every last piece of molding, window placement and storage

ochre squiggly marks weaving across the brown, bark-like boat, to

cupboard. She even developed a Sherwin Williams paint color for her

resemble what happens to a tree when a pine beetle attacks it. Like

walls that is called Trance Gray—a color that plays off the shades

all of Elizabeth’s art, the boat is an environmental statement about

of bark on the trees in the forest outside the banks of 6-by-6 foot

the perils faced by our planet. When Pining is exhibited, it will hang

windows that line the walls and bring the outdoors into this room.

from the ceiling. Huge photographs of ravaged forests—photos that

“I call this my dream studio home as it combines all the elements I’ve

Elizabeth has taken and that John, a master printer, has printed, will

been dreaming about for 35 years,” she says.

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From the studio with its lofty view of the woods and its many inhabitants including deer and turkeys, the home cascades down to a small, perfectly efficient and perfectly enchanting living area.

This space shares many of the elements of the studio, the silver-gray stained maple flooring, soft-sage colored cabinetry with beautifully silver sparkled quartz and those magnificent 6-by 6-foot windows.

But Elizabeth kept the ceiling lower here as if to mimic the lower elevation outside the windows. The effect is a striking intimacy with the forest. One more metaphor for the human connection to the natural world, in a home and studio that is rich with them.

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hristal McManus was raised in Indiana, not far from Lake Michigan and as long back as she can recall, she says, “Lake Michigan was at my core.” As an adult, her work took her

to Memphis, Tennessee, far away from those sparkling, freshwater shores. Christal learned to love Memphis, and even more so, her husband, Steve McManus, whom she met there. The couple had a big, busy life in Memphis—children, careers (including his as a state representative for 10 years) and a roomy house filled with French country antiques.

Years ago, the couple began planning for when the kids were raised and they could carve out a simpler lifestyle around the outdoor activities they both adore. Steve bought into Christal’s Lake Michigan passion, and the McManuses began property-scouting trips along the eastern Lake Michigan shore from St. Joseph all the way up to Harbor Springs. Christal did her homework first, scouring the Internet for interesting properties. One standout was a lot that was just south of the tiny town of Arcadia on M22. Situated atop a bluff that crests 450-feet above Lake Michigan—the property is surrounded by a dramatic, windswept scrubby-dune landscape that reminded the couple of the Irish coast, a place they both love, and that Steve, particularly, feels a strong connection to as he has family in Ireland.

They visited on a summer day nine years ago, and, yes, the property was as beautiful as the neighbor who was selling it had promised. The fact that the only development in sight was (and still is) the spectacular Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club upped the deal for Steve, an avid golfer.

The couple camped on the property for years, getting acquainted with its contours and the wildlife who called it home—deer, coyote, bear and bobcat (and judging from a huge set of cat prints Christal found on it last spring, likely a cougar). All the while, Christal scoured magazines and the Internet for house plans that captured their dream for “something very simple to build that capitalized on the views, gave us efficient use of a smaller footprint and offered us good options to bring the outdoors in on nice days.”

Eventually she came across plans for a not-so-big home in Seaside, Florida, with a layout that captured her attention for the way the home’s functional spaces—foyer, stairways and bathroom—were tucked into the back, leaving the view wide open to the living areas.

But on the exterior, it was a 1930s Swedish Classic Gothic—hardly the “Nantucket-meets-farmhouse look” look that she and Steve thought would fit well with the site.

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The McManuses sent the plan to their builder, Silverwood

a Carrera marble backsplash add effortless sophistication. Bonnie’s

Enterprises in Traverse City, whose team, led by Silverwood’s

resourceful and creative touches are found throughout the home,

founder and president Kendall Smith, transformed it into a Northern

including the stunning coral-toned marble countertop in the master

Michigan coastal home with everything the couple wanted. Off went

bath—a slab she discovered across the state in Flint.

the Gothic embellishments, on went cedar shingles, white clapboard

Kendall didn’t sign off on the project until he was sure the home

and simple, classic porch railings. Interior alterations included

could stand up to Northern Michigan winters and the year-round

removing an elevator to make room for an upstairs home office and

winds off Lake Michigan. Among his recommendations—welcomed

opening the kitchen to the living area. Silverwood’s field supervisor,

and inputted by the McManuses—were modified French doors at

Matt Nemode, worked closely with Christal to custom design and

the walkout level where the wind blows toward the house. While the

build a fireplace mantel, face and coordinated cabinetry that anchor

doors look like the real thing, they only open on one side to help block

the room in traditional cottage style.

wind gusts when they are opened. Kendall also altered the design

For the kitchen design, the Silverwood team recommended

of the two-tiered deck to accommodate snow and water runoff.

MasterCraft Cabinets whose designer, Bonnie Woolsey, took the lead

Additionally, he assisted Christal in the window selection. She chose

from the creamy white fireplace mantel and designed custom creamy

extra long windows with two panes at the top, a cottagey touch.

white kitchen cabinetry, and a three-paneled range hood that mimics

Kendall approved of the windows’ engineering—the harder the wind

the living area’s fireplace chaise. Black soapstone countertops and

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The home, finished this past summer, is sublimely suited to its

is more than sated and, to make so many great things better, Steve’s

site and to the couple who are enjoying it immensely. The diminu-

Gaelic-soul is delighted by the haunting strains of bagpipes that float

tive 936-square-foot footprint rises from a walkout level finished

across the dunescape, courtesy of the bagpiper who plays many

with two guest suites, the main level houses the kitchen and living

summer evenings on the grounds of Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club. All of

area and the third floor is devoted to the master suite and gem-sized

which spells out the reason for their home’s name, Ardnamare.

library/office. The interior style is a perfect balance of Christal’s care-

Christal came up with the idea for the name when she and Steve

fully curated French antiques and a relaxed coastal vibe enhanced

visited Ireland in 2014. In Gaelic, Ard means a high grassy hill, Na

by fabulously understated Benjamin Moore wall colors: Pale Oak on

means near and Mare is the sea. Christal’s parents gifted them the

the main level; White Sand in the master suite and Sailcloth on the

quarterboard (a ship’s sign) with the name in Gaelic-style letters that

walkout level. All the trim, including the fireplace mantel and face is

is now mounted on the front of the house that stands in dune grass

White Dove.

and looks out on a freshwater sea.

The serene wall colors are the backdrop for the incredible view of dune grass, small-but-resilient trees and seemingly endless water

Elizabeth Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home & Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com // Photos by Dave Speckman

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enlightened lakeside AN INSPIRED ARCHITECT & ENGAGED HOMEOWNERS PULL ON AGE-OLD ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES TO CREATE A FRESH TAKE ON WATERSIDE LIVING. TEXT BY ELIZABETH EDWARDS // PHOTOS BY DAVE SPECKMAN

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rchitect Ken Richmond and his wife, artist Joan Richmond, spend a lot of time in Italy. Ken’s passion for the country, which Joan shares, began with a couple of college abroads

there years ago. Based in Rome, they’ve toured the entire country, including the renowned Amalfi Coast where villas nestled into the sides of the Lattari Mountain look over the cobalt waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Which, I strongly suspect, is why, when standing on the porcelaintiled terrace of this home overlooking the intensely blue, 19-mile-long Torch Lake, I felt as though I were in a villa. Not that Richmond, or the discerning homeowners, would ever desire a literal re-creation of an Italian villa in Northern Michigan. The homeowners imagined a contemporary rendition of an American lake house when they hired Richmond, who has made a reputation for his beautiful cottage designs—each distinct yet all evoking some sense of Northern Michigan lake-country vernacular architecture.

But like the skilled and wise architect that he is, Richmond is guided by ancient principles: perhaps the foremost being to work with the land, not against it—a feat that is particularly difficult when the site is hard to build, as in a parcel with a steep slope on one side, and a road on the other. As in the case of much of the Amalfi Coast.

As in the case of this Torch Lake lot. All too often, the modern fix is to scrape the site and create a plateau.

Richmond chose the ancient solution: snuggling the roadside part of the house into the hill. “That side of the house is buried three feet, which makes the house look much smaller from the road and blend into the site … I love that,” Richmond says.

On the waterside, the homeowners understandably wanted as much outdoor space attached to the home as possible (their beautiful beachfront is many steps down at the bottom of the slope). So Richmond planned the home’s design around a luxuriously generous terrace and then shaped the home around it in a kind of loose U. Or as he explains it: “I think of that house like a bridge. It feels like it is strung out across the hillside and then there is this spaciousness looking out at the water.”

A home snuggled into and strung out along an ancient hill with a terrace that overlooks a cobalt inland sea ... you get where I am going.

Being as conscious of the local vernacular as he is of the local topography, however, Richmond added exterior elements that reflect traditional Northern Michigan cottage design. The two wings

ARCHITEC T KEN RICHMOND DESIG NED THE U PSTAIRS BATHROOM WINDOWS TO MAKE THE ROOM FEEL LIKE IT IS HOVERING OVER THE WATER LIKE A SHIP ’ S B ERTH .

attached to the “bridge” (which houses the great room)

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TORCH L AKE SPRE ADS BIG AND B LU E J UST OVER THE TERR ACE WALL .

for example, don’t mirror each other —one is two-stories, the other

Structural engineer Angelo Vozza of Avanti Engineering worked

is a single story to give the effect of an old structure that was added

with builder Roger Gribi to execute the design. The homeowners

on to over the years. Dark stained, rough board and batten siding and

captained the decisions on the interior finishes, working with Nowak

deep eaves also help ground the structure in its Northern Michigan

Cabinets on minimalist modern-style kitchen cabinets in warm

environment.

wood tones. They also chose to clad the floor, fireplace chimney and

That said, the home is anything but your grandmother’s cottage, as in the stunning and contemporary two-story grid of windows that

face in coordinated porcelain tile that flows out on to that terrace— and feels like a contemporary take on marble.

flank the front door—an entry that is set on the side of the home

After two summers spent in their home, the homeowners under-

away from the road—and that floods the great room with light.

stand that their architect designed them a home for the ages: classic

Likewise, light pours in from the wall-sized glass Nana door between

yet contemporary; organic yet fresh and light as a new day. “We just

the great room and that fabulous terrace and its incredible Torch

love it,” says the homeowner.

Lake view.

Richmond has filled this home with other smaller but significant

Elizabeth Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home & Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com // Photos by Dave Speckman

touches including a sleek floating staircase that climbs to a floating bridge that leads to the adult children’s suite, windows that are set at purposeful angles to catch the gorgeous lengthwise views of Torch and several window niches that hover over the water like a ship’s berth.

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