Located in Warren, Michigan and accessible only by invitation, the Cadillac House at Vanderbilt is a modernist building where Cadillac Celestiq buyers are guided through the in-depth customization process to create their bespoke all-electric sedan. A Celestiq finished in Cyber Yellow Metallic (color code GCP) paint, mounted on a turntable within the glass structure, is currently on display.
The Cadillac House at Vanderbilt, named after Suzanne Vanderbilt, one of the first female automotive designers, is described by GM as an “elegant, restored modernist glass jewel box by the celebrated architect Eero Saarinen” now being used “as a key element of the Celestiq bespoke experience.”
Used exclusively to showcase the Celestiq as Cadillac’s all-electric flagship vehicle, the Cadillac House at Vanderbilt has just started admitting clients in summer 2024. Celestiq buyers, who are shelling out a minimum of $340,000 for their battery-powered sedan, get to tour the facility with a concierge. They will also talk with Cadillac designers about customizing their 2025 Cadillac Celestiq to meet their personal specifications.
The Cadillac House offers an entire “experience” to these visitors, including various displays. These include “the ‘magic’ wood paneled wall – which opens to reveal a colorful selection of materials and finishes” that customers can choose from while ordering their Celestiq.
The building also offers views of a “Water Ballet” fountain, bespoke silk carpets, and a “modernist 36-foot-long sculptural screen of glimmering gold designed by Harry Bertoia.” The architectural styles of Saarinen are said to be a good match for the vehicular styling of modern Cadillac vehicles, with the latter drawing inspiration from the architecture itself.
As a reminder, the Cadillac Celestiq is motivated by a 111 kWh GM Ultium battery pack supplying power to twin GM Ultium Drive motors capable of developing 600 horsepower and 640 pound-feet of torque. The elongated luxury sedan, which is underpinned by the GM BEV3 platform, can blast from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in less than 4 seconds.
The Celestiq is loaded with luxury features, including a pillar-to-pillar 55-inch-diagonal display, while passengers sit beneath a SmartGlass roof with programmable opacity. The vehicle also offers extreme levels of customization.
While most people can’t get a first-hand look at the Cadillac House at Vanderbilt by ordering a Celestiq, we can check out the GM Authority gallery below to get a glimpse into the exclusive world of GM’s most expensive sedan model ever.
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Somehow that gold color best befits the Celestiq.
agree, the pictures are not good made, it could have the car closer, but seems what u say
To my eyes, it’s incredibly ugly in the rear profile.
Building originally was the employee and executive Cafeteria between Engineering South and Manufacturing Development buildings.
Correct!
Yep, with a view of the pond and not far from Design Staff whom, based on my experience, probably drove the whole idea of this statement vehicle and showcase.
One can only imagine how many Uber rich buyers will be flying their private jets into Metro or Oakland County for the opportunity to customize their ride in the confines of the rather dreary Tech Ctr which is a perfect match for the city of Warren, Michigan.
Maybe 10 or 20 total?
Ate there everyday. Great Benny at the time!
..especially the underground walk-way / tunnel connecting it. 😉
You can see the stairs going down in a couple of the pics.
They’ve kept that original front partition, too.
Got to be the ugliest car I have ever seen…
must not have seen too many cars.
Got to be the ugliest car I have ever seen… Why won’t Cadillac bring back the CT6 in the US, and not a China built unit either?!?
Bring back the ct6 with ice. Time to replace my 2019 xts.
Ok, seems a design show room but what is that for ? who can visit this, only GM Manager employees ?
Would you rather they just sell these in a Chevy dealership?
This is a smart move on Cadillac’s part. The main selling point for these types of vehicles like Rolls and Bentley is the concierge-like experience when designing and building the car. It’s how you create value with those customers.
I’m sure there will be other models that will be sold exclusively through here in the future (I.e. the rumored Hypercar Cadillac is expected to be getting)
Ex GMB: Although I’m not sold on the design of this car, and although I’m not fully sure it will work out, the idea (which I think is great) is that the people buying this car know that Harry from the sunglass kiosk at the mall or someone from the hood won’t be driving one as well. That’s the entire point of “bespoke”. It’s special.
Not for me and I certainly can’t afford one. And that’s ok as I don’t like attention when I’m on the road. But Cadillac needs this.
I’m glad they dropped so much money to frivolously engage the uber-wealthy. Mean while at our GM outpost, were celebrating the 40th anniversary of our last engineering office update. I would show you images exception the pink and gray – dirt soaked – carpenter walls, yes I said walls, among with the matching equally disgusting cubical walls, would probably make most of you vomit… I won’t mention 40 years of carpet that can’t be rightfully detailed here – just imagine millions of shoe treads in an oily manufacturing building. No don’t bother, you really can’t imagine. I’m pretty sure they don’t bring young engineers through here during interviews, because no business could possibly present a poorer quality of work space that we, far off ( from the mother ship of Detroit) distant, easily forgotten about GM facilities. It’s truly embarrassing. Sell, baby sell. It’s all about the stock price at any expense.
I bought my Chevy in the back ally of the dealership in the rain.
It seems a missed opportunity to draw on the legacy of Cadillac’s many fabulous paint colors offered in the past. Or at least to offer a new version of “Firemist” exteriors (“. . . known for their brilliance of color and high metal flake elements”) and to add the newer paints such as Cyberyellow and Rift Metallic hues and some of the matte finishes, pearlmist finishes, etc. The Black Cherry and Black Emerald colors come to mind, along with the various hues of lavenders through the years (Wisteria, Heather Firemist, Desert Rose Firemist, Amethyst Firemist, Dark Plum, Quartz Firemist, etc.) Plus, those silhouette paint colors with the embossed shape of a Celestiq ought to be replaced by a painted, detailed scale model Celestiq’s (similar to the Promo Model Cars from the fifties through eighties.) Those could be given to budding Cadillac enthusiasts! Unfortunately, no scale models of the Celestiq have emerged by any manufacturer. . . yet (or is there lack of interest?)
There’s a reason why I am often critical of GM. It’s because I truly like GM and want them to succeed. I have owned numerous other brands over the years both in new and used, including new Fords, Lincolns, Dodge’s, Chryslers, Kia’s, one VW and many GM products. Everything but a GMC. So I am not just a die-hard GM guy, but someone who has had very good luck with my GM products and likes them.
I say all that because I truly hope this “project” works for GM. I want this to succeed. Cadillac needs this to re-establish themselves in the real luxury market and push them to the next level IF that’s what they want. It won’t do a thing for me as I just can’t afford anything like this and I won’t spend more than 30 grand on a vehicle (selling price, not MSRP). But in the future, I would like to think that I could justify spending a little more to once again drive a new Cadillac. Even then, it would be difficult for me to justify spending more than 50 grands. So maybe this plan will eliminate any future new Cadillac’s for me. But GM and Cadillac need this win.
This is an excellent idea and leaves me wondering what other bespoke models will pop up in the future.
So ugly it hurts.
When President Trump gets re-elected, the slowing EV sales will cascade, with the possible exception of Tesla, due to its iconic place in the market. Trump will drop the $7500 tax credit (as unfair to the general population as Biden’s failed vote-buying college loan bailouts), as well as the EV mandates and ridiculous Biden mileage requirements. You can already see this future cascade in the horrendous resale values of Lucid, et. al. Ultra-expensive EVs {Rolls, Bentley, Celestiq [?], etc.) may still make it because of their exclusivity, their “look-at-me, I’m saving the planet” virtue-signaling and usually low-mileage usage, but if their resale values also crumble, even the silly leftist ultra-wealthy don’t like wasting money when there is a sensible alternative, so not really sure about this market. Too few car numbers to matter, anyway. Short-haul commercial EV trucks make sense and will increase in sales. . Hybrids will still be viable, because they make sense, too.
From the side, it looks to me like a less graceful version of the Jensen Interceptor. IMHO, this is no celebration of previous luxury design excellence. If I was in that market I would probably be looking to Rolls or Bentley.
Are the stockholders aware of how much is being spent, including expensively redoing a whole building, to sell a few hundred of these cars a year?