Then Mori met Andrea Monath Schumacher on a plane, and upon learning she was a designer, he regaled her with his intentions for the new house. It sounded a bit eccentric, but Schumacher gave her flight companion her contact information, and he followed up with the architects’ plans. Indeed, their “pirate” touches were light rather than literal: a glass “plank” walkway over a fountain below and concrete “lily pads” that would convey visitors over water to the front door. “He’s confident and a little edgy,” explains the designer. So Schumacher responded with a program that captured Mori’s young energy but balanced it with the sophistication that comes with age and experience. That sometimes meant toning down Mori’s impulses. For example, he wanted the entire kitchen surfaced in slabs of Antolini’s amethyst Precioustone Collection – illuminated from behind, no less. “I pushed back because it was going to be too much,” she states. “Instead, we used it in the butler’s pantry,” and deployed Azul Macaubas quartzite throughout the rest of the kitchen. Designer Andrea Schumacher deployed frosted glass in the kitchen to ensure privacy from the neighboring house without cutting down on natural light. COUNTERTOPS In order to avoid a stone seam, Schumacher inset a honed granite workspace into the island. Azul Macaubas quartzite dominates backsplashes and countertops in the kitchen. FLOORING Large-format Porcelanosa tiles resemble black concrete. BUILT-IN VITRINE A cabinet set into the wall balances industrial elements in the kitchen with handcrafted organic pottery and a painting by Santa Barbara artist Colette Cosentino. FIXTURES The fixtures are intentionally industrial-looking to suit the client’s edgy millennial personality. SEATING Vanguard barstools at the kitchen island were upholstered in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Komodo fabric, referencing the client’s head-to-toe tattoos.