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Detroit Symphony
Showcase House Crews Race to Finish French-themed Excerpts taken from Detroit Free Press – Sept 23, 2001 A certain grandeur The
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Volunteers Council tries to find a newly built
house for its every-other-year show house. The past couple of events, though
says Saulson, none was available at the right level of luxury. “You need a
spec (speculative) home of a certain grandeur,” she says, “and such things
were not being built.” This year the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Designer
Show House is being constructed in the exclusive Turtle Lake subdivision for
a series of upcoming fund-raising events. |
| Sixty artisans, carpenters, fine plaster finishers, tile setters, stone masons and slate roofers swarm over this French-style house in Bloomfield Township’s exclusive Turtle Lake subdivision like an army of worker ants. A dozen slate roofers from Vermont have been living in nearby motels for two months. Stair builders from Canada have engineered a dramatic center staircase that cuts through the air with no visible center source of support. This is going to be one jewel of a house — not huge by multi-million-dollar standards but perfect, with amazing materials like the 300-year-old stone from Jerusalem that paves the lower-level floors. |
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