8 michigan design center @home 2017 MDC CELEBRATES 40 YEARS Michigan Design Center may be marking 40 years as the region’s go-to resource for fine furnishings and materials, but we’ve got our eyes trained on the future as we celebrate everything modern in this issue. InModern Accents, we share designers’ best advice on accessorizing modern rooms, and you’ll see some fresh ideas for contemporary lighting options. Reality Check explores faux alternatives to expensive materials that look like the real deal, but are more environmentally and socially responsible. And, as Detroit experiences its own surge of new and renovated apartments, take a trip with us to Chicago, where local designers Arturo Sanchez and Barry Harrison created a redesign of a sparkling city condo on the Gold Coast for a Michigan native and her husband. For our 40th anniversary, MDC will take its own leap into the future with a redesign project of our own. Stay tuned as we unveil our new lobby design later this year. It will be a beautiful and functional space for creative types to meet, collaborate, and dream. In fact, you’ll see fresh décor throughout the building and new landscaping. Great ways to start our next 40 years! Forty years is a long time for a business to survive. It takes many people to make it work. Thank you to the people in our showrooms, who continue to bring the newest, finest products available anywhere, and who offer the expert knowledge that helps bring them to life. Thank you to our trade members, who inspire us every day, and who create living environments that are well-planned and great-looking. And special thanks to the many who have attended and supported MDC events through the years. We will never stop looking for ways to showcase the breadth of design knowledge in Michigan. It’s always fun to look back at where it all began, but it’s even more gratifying to plan for the future – and to watch those plans take wing. Jim Danto Susan Todebush President, Michigan Design Center EVP / General Manager, Michigan Design Center Michigan Design Center | 1700 Stutz Drive | Troy, Michigan 48084 | 248.649.4772 | michigandesign.com
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