Imported from Wisconsin

Michigan, News Comments Off
Sep 252011

Detroit’s Afleck House made an appearance in the most recent installment in Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” ad campaign.

Perhaps the Wright fan in me is supposed to rejoice, but as a native Michigander (go Whiteford Bobcats!) I have to point out that Wright-designed Afleck house got about six times the screen time as the Saarinen-dconnected Cranbrook campus. I’m guessing Chrysler didn’t import their admen from Detroit.

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Turkel House

Michigan, Restoration/Renovation Comments Off
Mar 242011

Curbed National has a brief interview with the owners of the restored Turkel House in Detroit. The ground has been covered (a video here,an article here ) before, but it’s hard to argue that the Turkel House and its owners get too much exposure.

CN: How did you bring your design aesthetic into the home? NS: We wanted it to look like 1955. We didn’t want to change anything. You could do many things with this if it was just a regular midcentury house but we wanted this to be like Mr. Wright intended it. Except for a new bathroom so that we could have some modern amenities.
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Turkel House Video

Audio & Video, Michigan, Restoration/Renovation Comments Off
Nov 232010

Detroit local news show has video of the restored Turkel House. James McDaniel, an actor in the series Detroit 1-8-7 spotted the house glimpsed the house through foliage, recognized it as a Frank Lloyd Wright building and stopped.

The video is obnoxiously edited and has a vaguely annoying music track, but the Turkel House is beautifully restored and the video includes a bit of the interior, so it’s worth putting up with the local news quirks.

In August, I linked to a story on the restoration from Hour Detroit that included a gallery of photos showing off the newly-restored house.

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Living in the Affleck House

Michigan Comments Off
Nov 172010

The real estate blog Curbed has an interview with the tenant of the Affleck House in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The home is owned by the Lawrence Technical University , and the tenant is Ralph Nelson, assistant dean and director of graduate programs for the College of Architecture and Design.

The interview is short, and not particularly deep or original, but it will kill some time at work.

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Turkel House Restoration

Michigan, Restoration/Renovation Comments Off
Aug 292010

(via: PrairieMod)

Hour Detroit published feature on the owners of the Turkel House in Detroit, Michigan. The current owners, Norm Silk and Dale Morgan, bought the house in 2006 and virtually save the house with a $1 million restoration.

The men say they had talked abstractly about moving to a smaller house, maybe something modern. But they liked their Palmer Woods neighborhood. One day, Silk drove by and spotted a for-sale sign. When they decided to buy, people called them crazy. They viewed the move as simply wanting to improve the house so they could enjoy living in a “cool place.” Along the way, it became their legacy.

“We’ve come to look at it like we’re caretakers of some important architectural piece, and it will keep going after we’re done with it,” Silk says.

A gallery of pictures accompanies the article. The photos highlight the extaordinary restoration, but also the feeling of light and space in the two-story Usonian.

The owners credit the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy with putting them in contact with Wright experts to help with the restoration; they will be attending the Conservancy’s annual conference in Cincinnati this September.

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