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Detroit's Shinola Hotel flaunts finished interior photos

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Detroit's Shinola Hotel flaunts finished interior photos

The first hotel from Detroit’s luxury watchmaker Shinola and developer Bedrock is open for business. The adaptive reuse project in Downtown Detroit, which has placed three new buildings as connective tissue between the former Singer Sewing Machine store and the Meyer Jewelry Building, is now taking reservations for stays beginning January 2, 2019.

A rendering of the Shinola Hotel from Woodward Avenue.
A rendering of the Shinola Hotel from Woodward Avenue. (Courtesy the Shinola Hotel)

To celebrate the project’s completion, Shinola and Bedrock have released a batch of new photos detailing the hotel’s interiors, and the Shinola touch is prevalent throughout.

The 129-room Shinola Hotel was a collaborative design effort between the New York–based Gachot Studios and the Detroit-based Kraemer Design Group. The end result features 50 different room configurations, ground-floor retail, and a line of Shinola products specially made for the hotel (including a desk clock, alpaca throw blanket, and a candle) across the complex’s five buildings.

An upper floor room in the Shinola Hotel, with a striped alpaca throw blanket on the bed that was designed by Shinola exclusively for the hotel.
An upper floor room in the Shinola Hotel, with a striped alpaca throw blanket on the bed that was designed by Shinola exclusively for the hotel. (Nicole Franzen)

1400 Woodward Avenue, built in 1915 and expanded in 1925, has been described by the Kraemer Design Group as “Detroit’s best example of art nouveau Sullivanesque-style architecture.” The former department store is the largest building in the full-block hotel, and a 1,600-square-foot Shinola store opened at the building’s base on November 23. The other existing building, a much shorter neo-classical storefront at 1416 Woodward, was built in 1936. Two of the new buildings, one five stories tall and the other eight-and-a-half stories tall, will open on Woodward, with a final, retail-oriented building on Farmer Street. A multi-story sky bridge will cross the alley at the back of the development and encourage circulation throughout the complex.


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