by janecanapini | Aug 3, 2019 | Architecture, Michigan, United States
Emerald green sofas. Fuschia velvet armchairs. Crimson and lime green floral rugs next to bold black and white checkerboard tiles. Stepping into the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is like walking into a box of crayons that exploded. But it’s not just the vibrant...
by janecanapini | Jul 11, 2019 | Architecture, Michigan, United States
I’ve always considered myself a hopeless romantic, and one of my favourite movies was a 1980 film called Somewhere in Time, starring a young Christopher Reeve (before his crippling accident) and the always-beautiful Jane Seymour. The plot revolves around...
by janecanapini | Mar 9, 2019 | Architecture, Attractions, United States
If you’ve ever read Ayn Rand’s book, The Fountainhead, whose protagonist is a visionary architect, you should visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. Even if you haven’t read the book, you should still go on a...
by janecanapini | Feb 17, 2019 | Accommodations, Architecture, Buffalo, New York, United States
I always say, why stay in a hotel when you can stay in a story? It’s the kind of philosophy that has led Henk and I to sleep in a spherical treehouse, play Tarzan and Jane in a tropical hideaway, and more recently, check ourselves into a former insane asylum,...
