78 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM counter and painted a deep blue, the bar “screams cocktails with old crystal glassware,” the couple says. In a hotel-like touch, a custom brass argon dispenser piped down to the basement preserves leftover half bottles of wine for the next day. The thoughtfully designed passthrough bar flows from the kitchen to the dining room, another favorite feature. There, a light fixture of brass and white spheres, suggestive of champagne bubbles, enlivens the ambience amid soft blue wainscoting and crown molding. The homeowners mark this as one of many extraordinary light fixtures Katie incorporated to heighten the home’s dazzling style. Among the custom touches, Katie favors the metal-framed glass shelves hanging on either side of the kitchen sink. Created {home & design} Katie agrees that some of the project’s greatest challenges also produced some of the best outcomes. She helps clients at the stone yard visualize their book-matched marble slabs. Bookmatching creates two identical slabs by slicing a single stone slab in half, then places the two pieces side-by-side for a mirrored image. Likening marble and natural stone to Rorschach tests, Katie says, “Everyone sees something different. You don’t want clients to be in the shower and think, ‘That’s weird.’” The homeowners maintain that their collaborative design decisions “show up best in the stone and tile elements selected throughout the house. They have an ageless look.” A heavy walnut slab the couple found became a featured surface in the butler’s pantry/bar. Accented by the walnut
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