Home-related tips, trends, and tidbits
ART IS BLOOMING!: Tulip Time announced the winner of its annual First Bloem Festival Artwork Competition, through which a work of art is selected to appear on the official Tulip Time poster. After reviewing more than 100 stunning submissions, the juror, Mary Sundstrom, visual artist and exhibitions director of the Holland Area Arts Council, announced Kate Moynihan’s “Bursting with Color” as the winner (see cover of this section). Posters available at Tulip Time Festival Office, 42 W. 8th St., Holland. Read more about Tulip Time in this issue’s “Anchor’s Away” section. tuliptime.com CABINET COUTURE: Bakes & Kropp Fine Cabinetry, based in Mount Clemens, designed the kitchen for the fifth annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach (Fla.), which opened March 5. Bakes & Kropp is a kitchen design and cabinetry company, and each cabinet is custom-made. bakesandcropp.com, kipsbaydecoratorshowhouse.org HEART OF THE HOME: Wilsonart, a leading engineered-surfaces company, reports that we’re spending more time at home — and specifically in the kitchen. This means our homes need to perform as never before, as more and more people are looking for high style and low maintenance. Wilsonart offers a selection of high-style, high-performance, nonporous, and easy-to-clean engineered surfaces that mimic the appearance of natural stone. wilsonart.com — Compiled by Megan Swoyer
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Location Celebration Liven up your interiors with tips from a new book, “Midwest Modern Manifesto”
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By Patty LaNoue Stearns
or the 25 years she’s been in business, Michigan architect and interior designer Angie Lane has always felt that the Midwest never gets the respect it deserves. Despite the region’s history of soaring skyscrapers and famed buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, and Albert Kahn, among so many others, she says the Midwest is perennially underrated and underrepresented in the design world. Lane knew she needed a vehicle to explain to the world that Midwest style isn’t Little House on the Prairie: It’s modern, it’s hip, it’s practical but innovative, it’s driven by the changing seasons, and it’s like nowhere else.
The designer contacted a number of like-minded stylemakers throughout the region — in Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Detroit — and they agreed to contribute to her soonto-be-released book, “Midwest Modern Manifesto.” In bold color, featuring dramatic Midwest scenes that are overlayed with lively textures and patterns, the 332-page coffee table book’s images are evocative of the flora, fauna, and other touchstones of Midwest life, joyously and energetically presented by Lane. “It’s a love letter to the Midwest through design,” says the University of Michigan grad and Tecumseh-based architect/designer. “It’s a formula for achieving designer style, illustrated through several renowned designers around the Midwest. The entire aesthetic of the book is inspired by old propaganda posters, so that every page is an eye-catching mix of photography, graphics, and illustrations.” After two or three years of planning her book, Lane found a publisher, McNaughton & Gunn, in nearby Saline, and got to work. The book took her about a year to produce. “It was a real learning curve,” says Lane, who was familiar with graphic design but not the technical part. The book is broken into nine chapters, including designer samples, resources, and even a chapter for Happy Hour, with colorful cocktail recipes.
BOOK COVER PHOTO BY MARTA PEREZ; INSIDE BOOK PHOTO BY DAVE HOEFLER
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