The stage is set: a hush settles over the crowd, smoke curls languidly on the floor, and lights draw eyes and ears to the platform. There is an avid anticipation—a collective intake of breath—as the crowd watches both guitarist and the iconic silhouette held before in an extension and expression of its player. It is an instrument that has defined…
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The Mitten Brewing Co. partnership
Great Lakes By Design Magazine has partnered with The Mitten Brewing Co. of Grand Rapids, Michigan to launch a subscription offer as of April 1, 2020 through April 30, 2020 to help fund the microbrewery and pizzeria’s efforts to provide meals for children during the Coronavirus outbreak while schools are closed. For every one-year subscription at $32, Great Lakes By…
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The coastal elegance in residence
Coastal living is often associated with the salted waters of the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean, and yet with its abundant miles of shoreline among the world’s largest series of interconnected freshwater lakes, Michigan is inherently familiar with residential waterfront design. Its natural cul-de-sac formation offers much in the way of lakefront property—both inland and its perimeter—among breathtaking wooded land,…
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Oji Masanori x Mjölk
Solid brass and soft light are the main ingredients in this delicate light fixture created by the Japanese industrial designer Oji Masanori. The Diamond Pendant lamp was conceived for the Toronto-based lifestyle shop and gallery, Mjölk, as part of an exclusive collection, and it was handcrafted by artisans in the city. Fundamentally, the pendant recalls Masanori’s careful attention to form,…
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Design for Sale: Sommerset Pointe
On Lake Charlevoix in Boyne City, Michigan, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa within the Sommerset Pointe Yacht Club and Marina’s lakeside residential collection offers a harmonious combination of lakefront living and active lifestyle. The property, a warm-weather refuge, will arrive on the market soon courtesy of Pat O’Brien and Associates Real Estate, a real estate brokerage firm specializing in northern Michigan’s…
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Great Lakes By Design: In Flight
Contents: Design Corner Stingray | The all-new, mid-engine 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe and Convertible is born of the wind tunnel and a more than 60-year-old dream Leather Works | The handcrafted, American-made accessories and apparel shop based in Minnesota Design Spotlight Street smart | Milwaukee reintroduces the original rideshare method—the streetcar—to its urban transit program Refreshing Bottleworks | The former Coca-Cola bottling plant located…
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Vision, incorporated
With its comprehensive redesign and modern, sophisticated material finishes, a commercial architectural project in Grandville, Michigan, by Mathison | Mathison Architects, has helped reorganize and unify a more than 70-year-old technological brand in the area and its triad of business entities within one transformed building. The companies, comprising Van Dyken Mechanical Inc., Grand Valley Automation Inc., and Mechanical Testing Services…
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Natural advantage
Since initial records of design in ancient times, there has been evidence of what it is now classified as biomimicry. From the early utilization of silkworms for textile production around 4,000 B.C. and Leonardo da Vinci’s skeletal flying machines in the 1400s to archaic umbrellas inspired by Chinese lotus leaves in the 18th century, designers and inventors continue to turn…
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Tower work
When heading south along the eastern banks of the Scioto Greenways trail toward the Scioto Mile Promenade in downtown Columbus, a structure clad in Imperial Red granite and bronze-tone glass comes into view set back from the Scioto River’s edge. Nestled into the built landscape, the 1984-built, approximately one-million-square-foot building soars about 512 feet into the air and is visually…
