Bespoke Residential Interior Design & Architecture for Finely Crafted Urban Homes

Stephen Synakowski Architect PLLC dba Stephens Architecture

Stephens Architecture offers qualified and experienced High End Residential Interior and Home Design. The approach is founded in classical training in art and architecture and supplemented by knowledge gained in European travel.

The approach is illustrated here on each of the following pages through a discrete collection of distinctive design perspectives. Each perspective is reponsive and is custom tailored to client need by relating select aspects of fine art to architecture.

The approach contributes to urban living by enhancing and articulating artistic sensibilities which the traditional city already offers in general terms. Collection includes:

Classical

Classical or Traditional Decor with a focus on finely articulate detail, careful interior appointments including tiles, finishes and lighting for kitchens and baths, along with especial attention to space, light and traditional furnishings;

Modern

Modern Decor with a focus on interior space, surface, color, collage and modernist detail/metals/hardware/furnishings. Shown includes modernist murals by Matisse as a means to expand, define and organize residential living space;

Contemporary

Contemporay Decor exploring the connection between Art and Landscape. Contemporary design sources include free form wall and skylight designs by van der Rohe and Aalto. Decors are fashioned around the need to control light, color, tone and shade in relation to Art and Sculpture;

Bespoke

Bespoke and Custom Tailored Designs with focus on traditional architectural languages including period spectific Italian, English and French traditions. Various elements in each arranged to create rich contemporary settings;

Shown on this page:

Bespoke Customs Designs for New Residence, Chicago Suburbs; Cottage Design, Lake Bluff, Photos Copyright Tudron Construction, Classical Home Addition, Lake Bluff, IL, Photos Copyright Barrett Construction; Tudor Residence Design, Lake Forest, IL; Period Urban Townhome Porch Design, Chicago.: