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A House I’ll Never Own or Decorate – The Bedroom Dance Party Edition
Thanks to a combination of factors — a deep-rooted fear of debt, my poor choice of career paths and an over-inflated real estate market — It’s a foregone conclusion that I’ll never be able to afford a...
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A House I’ll Never Own or Decorate — The Laying ‘Bone Edition
51 Brock Ave., Toronto The Place: A 5-bedroom, $675,000 Victorian in Toronto’s west end. It has 2 kitchens, so it’s either a live-in/rent-out property or the home of a food-hoarding over eater. I...
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Home, Surreal Home: 5 Irreverent Decor Finds
As a movement, surrealism is most often associated with highbrow arts like painting, literature and film (the macabre image of ants pouring out of a wounded hand, from Luis Buñuel’s seminal movie Un...
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Ditches, Beaches and Woods: Where Designers go to Forage
Natalie Stopka’s Napkins For devout foodies, scavenging through public parks and roadside ditches to pick wild, esoteric ingredients is an almost sacred ritual. Although the yields are small, the...
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A Conversation with Design Master Giulio Cappellini
Giulio Cappellini at his Milan Showroom Even if you’ve never heard of Giulio Cappellini, or the eponymous design studio he’s run for three decades, chances are you’ve seen some of the furniture maker’s...
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Outside the Box: Why Cardboard is Kingly
A detail of Marie-José Gustave’s cardboard chair When designer Marie-josé Gustave moved to Quebec from France 15 years ago, she, not surprisingly, hauled her stuff with a bevy of cardboard boxes. But,...
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Coveted: Patty Johnson’s Haida Chair
Patty Johnson’s Haida Chair Patty Johnson is a master furniture designer with a deep sense of social responsibility. At her Toronto studio, she crafts the kind of playful-but-sophisticated pieces —...
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The Comeback: Art Deco
Tomas Alonso’s silver tea service (photo by Craig Dillon) Although Art Deco reached its apex of influence during the Interwar period, its rich colours, bold geometries and lavish materials (such as...
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Marcel Wanders on Being Compared to Madonna and Not Being ‘Boring’
Designer Marcel Wanders. Photo by Moe Doiron As a testament to his longevity, rock-star status and sheer ingenuity, designer Marcel Wanders has been called both the Madonna and the Lady Gaga of the...
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Nice Weave: How Ancient Basket Making is Inspiring Contemporary Furniture
Pendants made from woven pop bottles Basket weaving is one of the oldest known handcrafts. It predates pottery and, for at least 10,000 years, has been a vital means of transforming leaves and grass...
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7 Ways to Rock Your Home With Marble
The Bust Chair Marble is to geology what Cher is to the entertainment industry: hard and soft at the same time with an endless capacity for reinvention and an unquestionable ability to dazzle. The only...
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Slow furniture: Heidi Earnshaw Takes Her Time for Timeless Quality
Heidi Earnshaw in her downtown Toronto studio (Michelle Siu) As a reaction to mass manufacturing, the burgeoning slow furniture movement is a painstakingly careful, anachronistically plodding way to...
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Coveted: Geof Ramsay’s Steps Seat
Geof Ramsay’s Steps sat Geof Ramsay is a modern Maritimes designer. He was raised in Moncton and lives in Halifax, but learned his craft in Detroit, Ottawa and Amsterdam before setting up his eponymous...
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Why Fighting Over Furniture Can Be a Good Thing
My new couch Four years ago, when my partner and I bought our first condo, we decided not to spoil our new space with the old, worn-out Ikea futon we had in our rental apartment. We were both happy to...
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