{"id":118603,"date":"2018-05-23T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/simeone-deary-transforms-erstwhile-fire-station-into-the-detroit-foundation-hotel\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T22:07:43","slug":"simeone-deary-transforms-erstwhile-fire-station-into-the-detroit-foundation-hotel","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/simeone-deary-transforms-erstwhile-fire-station-into-the-detroit-foundation-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeone Deary Transforms Erstwhile Fire Station Into the Detroit Foundation Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two urban visions are merging in downtown Detroit. The former fire headquarters is now the Detroit Foundation Hotel<\/a>. Simeone Deary Design Group<\/a>’s Gina Deary<\/a> and Lisa Simeone<\/a> transformed the 95,000-square-foot structure into a reflection of the city’s past while embracing its present. “I’m from the area,” Deary says, “so I felt an obligation to produce a project the city could be proud of.”<\/p>\n

Highlights of the five-story neoclassical building include the main entrance’s terra-cotta arches, formerly the fire engine entrance. The ground level’s 18-foot-tall ceiling originally accommodated trucks. Now, it’s home to the Apparatus Room, a restaurant that retained the existing glazed brick tiles. Brand-new, however, is a banquette niche’s elaborate custom pendant fixture, its billowing white fabric resembling smoke, and the cascade of handblown glass orbs around the adjacent bar.<\/p>\n

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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Sal Rodriguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Details by local artisans proliferate throughout the hotel and its 100 guest rooms, from the iron door handles to the McClure’s potato chips. Metallic pastels, a nod to automobile paints from Detroit’s heyday, accent the deep chocolate color palette. Two suites with original cherry paneling are particularly notable: They were the former offices of the fire department’s highest ranking members. But now, instead of fighting fires, occupants are partaking in podcasts at the in-house studio.<\/p>\n

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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Nathan Kirkman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Nathan Kirkman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Nathan Kirkman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Nathan Kirkman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Sal Rodriguez<\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detroit Foundation Hotel by Simeone Deary Design Group. Photography by Nathan Kirkman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project Team:<\/strong> Christine Babini; Katie Liberman; Mark St. Romain.<\/p>\n

> See more from the May 2018 issue of Interior Design<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

> See more winners of the IIDA Interior Design Competition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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