Hotels
Located in a former Singer sewing-machine store and onetime hardware outlet T.B. Rayl and Company, the two buildings—married in a thoughtful restoration by architects Kraemer Design Group before being decked out impeccably by designers Gachot...
Hotels
Taking over Detroit’s Wurlitzer Building—a skyscraper designed by Detroit architect Robert Finn and built by Otto Misch Co. in the 1920s for Wurlitzer Co., the famed specialists of fine musical instruments and bows—The Siren Hotel has opened...
Bars & Nightlife
Scouting out Detroit's street art-heavy Eastern Market one Saturday, friends Dayne, Paul, and Devin — who'd some weeks earlier decided that they would set-up their own brewery — came across a decrepit building with a telephone number scrawled on...
Eating Out
Small-batch specialty roaster, New Order Coffee, have been enjoying a busy few months since opening their Detroit premises in July. Located in the Midtown area on Woodward Ave, the space features a bright interior with pops of aqua and orange, a...
Culture
Newly-opened Detroit arts venue Wasserman Projects is certainly kicking things off in grand style as it welcomes two exhibitions that stretch the 5,000 sqft space to its limits, inside and out. The inaugural event, timed to coincide with the Detroit...
Eating Out
If ever there was an example of positive gentrification, then this is it. Sam's pawnbrokers had been serving the Detroit community since 1920, providing the cash-strapped of Corktown with somewhere to hock their loot. The corner property on Michigan...
Eating Out
There's a pretty cosmopolitan backstory to Astro Coffee: Daisuke Hughes from Ann Arbor, Michigan, met Jessica Hicks, from Glen Innes, Australia, while working together in London for Monmouth Coffee Company (Monmouth is in Wales, but the firm is in...
Hotels
I get asked all the time, "I'm going to X, know any good X there?". People assume (quite rightly) that, as the founder of these fair pages, that I should know a little about design-led hotspots; and, quite frankly, it'd be a concern if I didn't. So,...
Journal
The design of Brad Neuberg's blog, Coding in Paradise, has not stood the test of time, but the concept he defined in a 2005 post sure has. Having worked with Google and Dropbox among other major platforms, Neuberg introduced a new way to work in...
Journal
It wouldn’t be the Kardashian clan if they weren’t making headlines, but Kim Kardashian West’s recent onslaught on the world of ‘fast fashion’ has had some fashion onlookers smelling a shiny golden rat. Posting an Instagram of...
Journal
Sonny Crockett, Tony Montana, and pastel hues might define it, but Miami has deep cultural depths that can surprise even repeat visitors. A rich tapestry of culture, art, and music coupled with a rousing nightlife scene (and let’s not forget our...
City Notes
A brand new cinema-bar-café experience has recently landed in the handsome city of Bath. TIVOLI Cinema merges mainstream and art house film with art, dining and cocktails. It’s a quite beautiful space, too, offering luxury, comfort and oodles of...
Dispatches
Stretching out to the country’s farthest tip, Cornwall is a county of inspired beauty. Surrounded by some of Britain’s most alluring waters, it is a region rich in maritime heritage, but enjoys all that brings to this day; namely jaw-dropping...
Dispatches
In rural areas of Morocco, up to 83% of women are still illiterate. And despite the government’s support of education policy and women’s rights, still more than half the country. They’re depressing figures, but one charity is doing incredible...
Dispatches
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour,” so wrote William Cowper in his 1785 poem, The Task, thus giving way to a phrase that would affix itself firmly to the modern lexicon. Of course he was wrong, for spontaneity is...
Dispatches
It may have only been operational for 14 years—transitioning between Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin—but 100 years since it opened, the impact of The Bauhaus resonates as strongly as ever. The enduring influence of the teachings that shaped modernism...