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Matt, Lafayette Towers (West)
“My idea was to take the shades down cause they are, you know, very ugly, but in the summer, July and August, it is really unbearable, so I have them up. In the wintertime I take them down, and it is really clean.”
[Portrait by Corine Vermeulen; view by Lana Cavar]
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ABOUT THE ESSAY
Living with Mies: The Towers at Lafayette ParkOn Places, photographer Corine Vermeulen and the design collective Placement offer a glimpse of life in Lafayette Park, the Mies van der Rohe-designed residential complex in Detroit.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Placement is a transient, site-specific project by graphic designers Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani.More Bio >>
Corine Vermeulen is a Dutch artist who has been working and living in Detroit since 2006.More Bio >>
