Architectural Digest: A Creative Renaissance Breathes New Life into Detroit

[Lowell]

Snooty Architectural Digest chimes in with somewhat of a rich folk's guide to slumming in surprising Detroit. It appears our grit is officially co-opted. Hopefully it will attract the well-heeled to buy into Detroit chic and spending their dollars here.

Got money? Here's a snippet on how to do Detroit.

Down the street, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit [[MOCAD) is boosting the area with an education, outreach, and research initiative it has dubbed Detroit City; the museum also has a first-rate in-house restaurant, Café 78, run by chef Marc Djozlija and mixologist Dave Kwiatkowski, the duo behind downtown’s hopping gastropub Wright & Co. A block north of MOCAD, the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, established in 2010 by veteran gallerist George N’Namdi, has one of the world’s premier collections of work by African-American artists. For lodgings in midtown, Beal recommends the DIA–adjacent Inn on Ferry Street, comprising six restored Victorian-era homes and carriage houses.

Another midtown anchor is Selden Standard, a buzzy eatery whose rustic fire-roasted cuisine nabbed a 2015 James Beard nomination for chef Andy Hollyday. He previously ran the kitchen at Iron Chef America winner Michael Symon’s Roast, which opened downtown in 2008 and, Hollyday observes, “really elevated the food game in this town.” Stellar meals can also be had at the new Gold Cash Gold, occupying a converted pawnshop in the Corktown neighborhood and serving refined Southern classics. And in the Eastern Market area, the black-and-brass-accented Antietam is earning raves for its French-inspired menu, while Trinosophes, a café and art gallery, offers fresh fare from Detroit’s urban farms.

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/a...travel-article

[A2Mike]

AD appeals to people with varying degrees of disposable income, so there's real potential in getting some good news out to the rest of the country - Detroit's recovery still hasn't generated enough momentum to keep the city from drifting out of the nation's ongoing consciousness. Curiously, for a magazine dedicated to residential real estate, no Detroit houses are displayed - maybe Detroit's well-to-do are more diffident about publicity than the Manhattan/Hamptons/Palm Beach/California crowd usually featured.

[JBMcB]

Curiously, for a magazine dedicated to residential real estate, no Detroit houses are displayed - maybe Detroit's well-to-do are more diffident about publicity than the Manhattan/Hamptons/Palm Beach/California crowd usually featured.

Detroit was written up in the travel section, which focuses on more publicly available art/architecture. Last month's article was on Havana.

Detroit area homes do pop up in AD sometimes. There was a modern house in Grosse Pointe listed a year ago, and the Frank Lloyd Wright house on 7 mile was featured a few years ago I believe.