Another month, another prestigious national magazine focuses on Detroit.
Architectural Digest joins the salutes in its June issue with a 10-photo gallery headlined "A Creative Renaissance Breathes New Life into Detroit." It follows a multimedia spread in this month's National Geographic, with a 4,200-word article by Susan Ager on why "Detroit Is Cool Again" as its centerpiece.
The new feature has full-page images by Jason Keen, a 2011 College for Creative Studies graduate who lives in Detroit's East English Village neighborhood. "Architectural Digest asked me to document the zeitgeist of Detroit through some of its unique and exciting establishments, old and new alike," the freelance photographer posts on his Facebook page.
An opening blurb by another freelancer, writer Michael Slenske, says:
As inventive restaurants, sleek hotels and forward-thinking galleries pop up among restored architectural landmarks, Detroit brims with excitement and optimism
In richly colored images, Keen shows the Shinola store, Antietam restaurant on Gratiot, the design shop Hugh on Cass, the David Whitney Building's new Aloft hotel and older landmarks such as Campus Martius, the DIA's Rivera Court, the Guardian Building's stunning lobby and the Detroit Public Library's main branch.
-- Alan Stamm
