Summer 2012
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Detroit Home Summer 2012 Digital Edition
Detroit Home – Summer 2012
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Varied Interests
Like an artist composing a scene, interior designer Daniel L. Lonski’s work with an avid collector requires an eye for framing a view. The task is one for which Lonski began preparing as a painting student in college, setting up still lifes. He also worked in retail, styling vignettes, before embarking on a long […]
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Bright & Beautiful
Heiress and wealthy widow Bunny Mellon has maintained homes in New York, Paris, Antigua, Cape Cod, and Nantucket, as well as a 4,000-acre estate farm in Virginia. Given such good fortune (as detailed recently by The New York Times), along with her enviable longevity (101 years at this writing), and the fact that she reportedly […]
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High Polish
Junior-high crushes are usually fleeting and shallow. However, in Greg Bartelt’s case, his early love has endured and deepened.
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Room Service
Elkington ice bucket, $145; Deco cocktail shaker, $145; sterling-silver shot measurer, $75; red decanter and glasses set, $795; bone bottle openers, $68 each; silver hotel tray, $235; green glass pitcher, $495; green glass decanter, $495; and French Syphon vintage bottles, $295 each…
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Summer Calendar
Through Sept. 2 // Meadow Brook Hall architectural tours, four times daily at the national historic landmark. Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester; 866-939-1840, meadowbrookhall.org. June 13 // Franklin Garden Walk, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m., beginning at the Franklin Village Gazebo, Franklin Road. Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 day of. Luncheon: $10 (specify 11:30 […]
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Stitches in Time
In addition to their actual fabric, quilts are often woven with metaphorical material that defines an era. This vivid quilt top (it lacks batting) does just that, says Tim Hill, who with his wife, Pam, owns the Hill Gallery in Birmingham. “This is an insanely rare quilt [62 inches high and 72 inches wide] done […]
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Public Garden: Lafayette Greens
Photographs by Cybelle Codish A bit like the literary tree that grows in Brooklyn, an unexpected garden tucked into a city lot behind the Lafayette Coney Island and across the street from the Westin Book Cadillac hotel offers inspiration to office workers and sightseeing visitors. On a downtown Detroit plot of land where the Lafayette […]
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Modern Perspective
The horizon visible From Anthony and J.J. Curis’ lakeside home is as wide open and sparkling as their newlywed life.
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Natural Order
Given their warm-weather use, summer homes are often as much about their setting and view as they are about their architecture and interior.
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Outdoor Rooms
Landscape designers use hardscape materials and plantings to create human-scale spaces under the sky, as these Detroit Home Design Award winners reveal.
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Moving Up
Bob Endres is a man in love. His real-estate romance began unexpectedly with his introduction to a mousy little place that took his affections by surprise.
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The Fine Art of Summer
The Fine Art of Summer
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Trend Report
1 – “A common mistake that people make is to think they need to spend more money on a fabric for their lesser-used living-room guest chair than for their constantly used family-room sofa. The harder-wearing fabric for the family-room sofa will probably be more expensive, but worth the money.” — Gail Urso, Urso Designs Inc., […]
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In Residence
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame, interior designer and Franklin resident Elizabeth Fields, who runs Elizabeth Fields Design, is in her element. That’s when she goes to the farmers’ market in Franklin to load up on the fruits and vegetables she loves to use for both cooking and decorating. “For fall, I […]
