Your complete directory to Grand Rapids, Michigan with links to everything you need to plan travel or get information.
Grand Rapids has culture, professional sports, and nightlife galore.
Whether you're relaxing in an Eames lounge chair, admiring the nation's
largest gold leaf ceiling, or touring a Frank Lloyd Wright house, you'll
notice that design matters in Grand Rapids. Design has always mattered
here. You can trace it back through the city's old nicknames -- "The
Paris of Furniture Design" and "The Furniture City" --
to 1837, when cabinetmaker William Haldane set up shop. Attention to aesthetics
was evident even earlier in seasonal camps along the Grand River, where
Ottawa Indians wove intricate birch bark baskets.
Experience for yourself how an artistic sense of design shaped -- and still shapes -- Michigan's second largest city.
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