Winter 2008
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The Best of the Rejected Best of Categories
This year, for our annual “Best of the Good Life” readers survey, we decided to expand the number and range of the included categories.
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Five Questions with … Mary Liz Curtin
Though Clawson’s Leon & Lulu is owned by a husband-and-wife team, their names are not Leon and Lulu. Instead, owners Mary Liz Curtin and Stephen Scannell named the store after the family pets. Since opening in the former Ambassador Roller Rink in 2006, the 15,000-square-foot space has been filled with a quirky mix of gifts, […]
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The Culture Club
In Detroit, you don’t have to wish upon a star. Instead, you can whisper your wish to the bark of the ginkgo tree Yoko Ono planted downtown in 2000. One of many wish trees she’s installed around the world, it’s also one of 150 pieces of public artwork highlighted in Art in Detroit Public Places. […]
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Northwest Ferndale
Have you ever found yourself wishing there were just a few more streets in Pleasant Ridge? Well, we did. So we ventured south into Ferndale and found a pocket of perfectly pleasant living just outside The Ridge.
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Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904. After graduating from high school, he served an apprenticeship under Gutzon Borglum.
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UGallery.com
If you gotta have art, you’re gonna need money. But with www.ugallery.com you’ll need a lot less.
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Neoclassical
The World’s Columbian Exposition celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America.
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The World’s Greatest Metro Detroit Holiday Gift Guide
1. Michelle Maule’s “I [heart] my bike,” $180, 323 East, Royal Oak; 248-246-9544. 2. Wood box with rabbit, $105, Elegance by Design, Ferndale; 248-582-0090. 3. Hand-carved nesting stork family, $45, Polish Art Center, Hamtramck; 313-874-2242. 4. Teco pagoda vase, $95, Artew Mission, Royal Oak; 248-399-0413. 5. Holiday hand towels, $9-$15, La Belle Provence, Birmingham; […]
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2008 Best of the Good Life
Design Awards 2008 – Best of the Good Life
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Fun House
Seasonal affective disorder is a fancy name for the winter blues. In other words, winter is depressing and everyone’s at risk.
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Collection Agency
Dennis and Bonnie Vankeersblick collect almost everything. Here’s how it happened.
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Pontiac
Pontiac is going green. Habitat for Humanity, Chrysler Financial, and Gontina Building and Design joined forces to build the area’s first affordable home that meets the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification standards.
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Home is Where the Horse is
For a thoroughly 21st-century man who built two homes via e-mail and whose best friend is his iPhone, it’s oxymoronic that Gary Wasserman’s preferred mode of transportation is the horse and buggy. But Wasserman — a fourth-generation horseman — wouldn’t have it any other way. Growing up, his family lived in Birmingham but always owned […]
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The Amazing Technicolor Dream House
Sometimes a house is nothing more than a simple structure stocked with functional furniture and all the necessary conveniences and comforts of day-to-day life.
