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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.
In
Modern 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
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