Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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126 "There are furniture stores, and then there's this exquisite Essex shop, where every last piece is quirky, unusual, and utterly compelling" is how one local magazine describes Andrew Spindler Antiques and Design in Essex. The same can be said about Spindler's 1937 Arts and Crafts home, which overlooks the water on a high bluff in East Gloucester. Not only is the house filled with an eclectic collection of beautiful objects from a range of eras and places, but the build- ing itself is outfitted with resonant materials like wood from reclaimed church pews and earth-toned Moravian tile. "As an antiques dealer, I'm passionate about art and objects and design, so it's sort of inescapable here," Spindler says. Spindler, who has lived here since 1990, now shares the almost 5,000-square-foot home with husband Hiram Butler, a contemporary art dealer who spends most of his time in Houston, Texas. Butler's influence can be felt throughout the five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom house, such as in the guest bedroom's huge Richard Serra Arts and Crafts-style elements meld with contemporary pieces for wonderfully juxtaposed interior compositions.