- Michigan Modernism Preview Party
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It’s preview party time for the Detroit Area Art Deco Society as the mid-century enthusiasts open up the Michigan Modernism Exposition on April 26, 7 - 10 p.m. The annual art deco affair offers you and your guests first dibs on some of the best 20th century antiques and fine arts from the international market while enjoying complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres.
This year we’re pulling out all the stops as Cari Cucksey of HGTV Cash and Cari joins us as our honorary chair for the Friday night preview party.
We’re stepping up the hors d’oeuvres as 2 Unique Catering steps in to present a large variety of the super delicious sweets and savories for you to enjoy all evening.
Think it can’t get any better then step back as we envelope the entire venue with modern classics to set the tone for our evenings guests.
Lastly a treat for your eyes as we’ll have on view a vintage 1931 Studebaker President Eight.
Preview party tickets are $65 in advance and can be purchased now online or by calling 248-582-3326. Proceeds from the preview party benefit DAADS scholarship, restoration and preservation programs.
Click HERE to purchase tickets.
Location:
The Southfield Civic Center
26000 Evergreen Road (at 10 1/2 Mile Road)
Southfield, Michigan (Map)Preview Party: Friday April 26, 7pm - 10pm
Modernism Expo:
Saturday April 27, 10am - 6pm
Sunday April 28, 12pm - 5pm
- Harmony in Design: Freer House, the Detroit Club and the Architecture of Wilson Eyre, Jr.
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This talk, given by Jeffrey Cohen, PhD, Professor of Architectural History, Bryn Mawr College, will place the Freer House (1892) and the Detroit Club (1894) in the larger context of designs by Eyre and his contemporaries on the East Coast and illumine the artistic sensibility that influenced his work.
Date & Time: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 2:00 pm
Location:
The Freer House
71 East Ferry
Detroit MI
Program Hosts: Nick and Lorna Abraham
RSVP IS REQUIRED, space is limited:
313-664-2509 or rmfoster@wayne.edu
$10 general public, $5 students and Freer House members
Reception and tours follow the lecture.
- Corrado Parducci Birthday Party
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March marks an important, though mostly unknown holiday for Detroit: Corrado Parducci, the man beyond the Masonic Temple's interior, the Guardian Building's Native American guards, the Buhl Building's flora and fauna, and the sculpture and ornament adorning dozens of other Detroit buildings, would have been 113 years young this month.
Join us at the Sky Bar in the David Stott Building to hear from historian and scholar, Jennifer Baross about Parducci's stunning work in that and so many other Detroit buildings. The Parducci Society will join us in throwing a proper birthday party (favors and all, folks) for a man who worked side-by-side with Detroit's best architects, but who so few of us know by name.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:00 pm
Location:
Sky Bar
1150 Griswold St.
Detroit MI
- Thoroughly Modern
Detroit Home Magazine published a great photo gallery of the 2010 Michigan Modernism Exposition Preview Party
Detroit Home Magazine>>
- DAADS Couple creates lifestyle in iconic modern furnishings
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DAADS own Pat and Bruce Olson received a wonderful write-up in the Detroit News Lifestyle section showcasing their Bloomfield Township home. The article by Detroit News design writer Susan R. Pollack can be found here along with a video interview and tour.
- Rebecca Blogs
DAADS board member Rebecca Binno Savage has begun blogging the Detroit historic preservation beat at Metro Mode.
- Search Site
- South Beach Architecture Re-visited
Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
By Ron Ortiz
A few years ago, I came across a cache of real photo postcards that captured the fascinating Art Deco hotel architecture of South Miami Beach in the pre-World War II period. I've visited South Beach many times since but this winter, I decided to try to find the structures pictured in my postcards.
- DAADS Attends "An Evening With Eames" Preview
Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
On Thursday, February 1st, prior to the opening of The Henry Ford Museum's Eames Lounge Chair exhibition, the museum held an Eames Preview Reception.
The original Eames Lounge Chair.
- 29th Annual Concours D'Elegance Promises Visual Feast
Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
By Terry Boyce
One of the finest automotive events in the world, the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance will take place on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall at Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan on Sunday, August 5th, 2007.
- Book Reviews
Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
ART DECOSCAPES
The Art of Displaying Yesterday Today
By Graham Abraham and Michael Wallace
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Price $39.95This book is about bringing some individuality to your Art Deco collection by artfully displaying your most coveted and interesting pieces. Not exactly a ‘Show Me’ book but rather a "Show Off to The Best Advantage" book.
- Satin Dolls Return to DAADS Gala Preview!
Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
The Satin Dolls, that talented singing trio specializing in nostalgic music from the 1930s to the 1960s will be the featured entertainment at the Michigan Modernism Gala Preview Party on Friday, April 27th. The group will have two scheduled performances that evening.
- Design Within Reach - Affordable Classics
- Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
Got the yearning for that Eames Lounge Chair? Like the industrial feel that Bertoia exudes? Does the ultra modern Noguchi lamp light up your heart? You know you have the style sense but lack the "cents." Well, Design Within Reach can help you fulfill your modern-style dreams and do it at affordable prices.
- DAADS Has Roaring 20th Annual Meeting
- Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
The Detroit Area Art Deco Society held its 20th Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at the Centaur Bar located at 2233 Park Avenue behind the Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit. The evening was swank and sophisticated. Those who attended also had the opportunity to see an innovative project that saved the former lodent Building (remember the toothpaste?) from the possible fate of demolition.
The magnificent Art Deco chandelier that hangs through an opening to the main level.
- 1932 Bucciali Tav 12 Debuts At Michigan Modernism
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Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
The 1932 Bucciali that appeared at the 2006 Pebble Beach Concours will make its debut at the Michigan Modernism Exposition April 27th to April 29th. The classic one of its kind automobile was created under the direction of two brothers, Angelo and Paul Albert Bucciali, who claimed to have made 36 cars of various specifications.
- Art Deco Theatre Discovered in Albuquerque!
- Spring 2007 DAADS Modern
On a cross-country trip recently, Bob and Kathie King stopped in in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The keen eye of Kathie King spotted the Kimo, a Pueblo Deco picture palace located in Albuquerque's downtown center. The Kimo is a unique 1927 vaudeville and movie theatre that was the dream of immigrant, Oreste Bachechi, an enterprising entrepreneur who came from humble beginnings. Oreste rose to fame and fortune in Albuquerque, with many businesses bearing his name.
- Arts and Crafts Weekend in Asheville
Spring 2008 DAADS ModernBy Theresa Shepherd
In February, a couple of like-minded friends and I made a pilgrimage to attend the 21st annual Arts and Crafts Conference at the historic Grove Park Inn and Spa in Asheville, North Carolina. I call it a pilgrimage because this is like heaven for Arts and Crafts enthusiasts. And it felt like we were in heaven when we finally arrived at the inn. The first things we noticed were NO SNOW and flowers in bloom!
