Detroit
— — the river that runs the other way.
Not only on a wall.
“Largest city in Michigan, set on a river that runs north toward Lake St. Clair. The auto plants drew the country here in the early 1900s; Motown answered them with a song. The skyline rises straight from the water, with Windsor on the Canadian side a short bridge away. from the studio
Detroit, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, founded in 1701 by the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac on the north bank of the Detroit River. The river is the international border with Windsor, Ontario, the only place in the United States where a major Canadian city sits directly to the south. The metropolitan area holds about 4.3 million people. The river itself runs north, draining Lake Huron through Lake St. Clair into Lake Erie, the only major navigable channel between the upper and lower Great Lakes.
The Detroit River runs north for about 45 kilometres from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and remains one of the busiest commercial waterways in North America. Belle Isle, a 982-acre island park designed in part by Frederick Law Olmsted, sits midstream and has been open to the public since 1879. The Ambassador Bridge, opened in 1929, was the world's longest suspension span at the time and still carries roughly a quarter of all trade between the United States and Canada by value. The river never closes in winter.
The Detroit Institute of Arts on Woodward Avenue holds one of the country's largest museum collections and is best known for Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, completed in 1933 across all four walls of the central courtyard. Admission is free for residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties; about 14 dollars otherwise. The Motown Museum, a few miles north on West Grand Boulevard, occupies the original Hitsville U.S.A. house where Berry Gordy founded the label in 1959 and where Studio A still stands intact behind the front room.