Glencoe Ravine Residence
- Location Glencoe, Illinois
- Design 1999
- Construction 2000-01
- General Contractor Ron Carani and Associates, Inc.
- Structural Engineer Beer Gorski & Graff, Ltd.
- Mechanical Engineer Midwesco Services, Inc.
- Civil Engineer STS Consultants, Ltd.
- Interior Design Richar Interiors, Inc.
- Landscape Architect Rocco Fiore & Sons
- Design Principal Ernest A Grunsfeld III FAIA
This Residence is located on a ravine bordering a golf course. It is a double-height volume with an H-shaped plan, defined by service and bedroom wings flanking a great room for entertaining the couples’ family and grandchildren.
The master suite on the ground floor consists of a study, bedroom, dressing rooms, bath and exercise room. The second floor contains an office and guest bedrooms.
The house is perched at the edge of a ravine with terraces and gardens on table land. Extensive use of glass gives the house a feeling of being in a tree house looking down at the wooded ravine.
Materials include rough-sawn Red Cedar siding, Crema Marfil marble floors on the ground floor, as well as at the fireplace and master bedroom suite, Brazilian black slate, Zebra wood millwork in the great room, and Anigre millwork in master bedroom, kitchen, and study.