From appearing on The Rachael Ray Show to getting his very own coffee-table book, how Detroit interior decorator Corey Damen Jenkins is putting the city’s design scene on the national map By Nicole Frehsee Mazur Featured photo by Brett Mountain All interior photos provided by Corey Damen Jenkins On a freezing January morning in Birmingham, Corey Damen Jenkins is feeling frazzled. “I apologize for the state of my desk,” says the 43-year-old, whose elegant, richly colored office, in a brick building overlooking a parking structure, is filled with holiday detritus: plaid wrapping paper, boxes of candy, greeting cards. “It’s a dumping ground for everything. I haven’t had time to process it.” It may seem incongruous that one of Detroit’s premier interior designers spends any time at all in a less-than-Insta-worthy room, but ironically, Jenkins has been so busy perfecting other peoples’ spaces that he hasn’t had time to work on his own. So a month after Christmas, gifts from clients and business associates sit atop his desk, untouched. “I’ve been everywhere the past few weeks,” says Jenkins, who lives in Bloomfield Hills when he’s not on the road. He rattles off a list of cities, including New York (where he […]