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52 December 10 • 2015 PHOTO BY BETH SINGER PHOTO BY BETH SINGER Built and architecturally engineered by Todd Emerson, owner of Sterling Development Corp. in Bloomfield Hills, and designed by Amy Miller Weinstein, owner of AMW Design Studio in Birmingham, this Birmingham home's dining room layers multiple elements while feeling clean and modern. Orange felted wool covers Ligne Roset chairs all the way down the legs; the table, which seats 12, sandwiches a layer of mesh between two sheets of glass, creating a moire pat- tern; hand-splattered wallpaper lines the walls above unexpected wainscoting; and a pair of side-by-side Bocci chandeliers from Birmingham's Arkitektura In-Situ dangle light-reflecting crystal orbs. arts & life a t h o m e In the same home's eat-in kitchen, Weinstein lined a modernized picnic table with white embossed child-friendly faux-leather chairs and duplicated them in barstools at the black honed-soapstone- topped island. John Morgan from Perspectives Custom Cabinetry in Royal Oak created open-sided glass cabinets to display china col- lections from pre-Revolutionary Russia. continued from page 50 continued on page 54