When Emily Kirkpatrick visited Seattle last summer with friends, they stayed at a modern lake house outside the city, complete with steel beams, floor-to-ceiling glass windows and a black leather Eames lounge chair, dramatically reclining in its own sculptural glamour, like the red Ferrari California Spyder in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” It begged to be photographed, so Kirkpatrick, 33, climbed in with her glass of pinot grigio and smiled.