Issue 1, 2024

DESIGNLINES

Your ultimate guide to Toronto's best contemporary design destinations

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Catherine MacIntosh Joseph Cicerone Rebecca Payne Sophie Sobol Veronika Aquila, B.F. Dawes, Jenny Febbraro, Donna Griffith, Simon Lewsen, Anna Lin, Silvana Longo, Scott Norsworthy, Carolyn Pioro, Rosemary Poole, Riley Snelling, David Saric Brian Wong
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In The Spotlight
Growing up enamored of his father’s blueprints and architecture books, Moallemi became interested in photography and pursued his career by assisting locally and abroad. A master in both architectural and portrait photography, his work has received mu
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The Way Home
The Inukshuk is about finding your way. Sometimes it’s a rocky road to navigate, and sometimes it just takes a little guidance. Metaphorically speaking or not, it’s good to have a marker for the important places, and to love the place you hang your h
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Space We Love
Enter Patria’s iron gates at King and Spadina to discover “the heartbeat of España in the heart of Toronto.” Following a brief closure in 2022, the Spanish restaurant is reaffirming its status in the city’s food scene with a fresh face to match its v
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The DL
Artist and Designer Sean Brown pays homage to hip-hop history with new collection Under the label Curves at Home, Toronto multi-hyphenate Sean Brown has shared his interpretation of everyday objects through an amalgam of his creative viewpoints in ex
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Chaises Chic
Equally plush and alluring, the Oaze Sofa by La Manufacture is made of foam layers and is available in an array of bold colours. Pricing upon request, at Founded by Garcia. Reminiscent of the flapping wing of a bird, the suspended F42E Lounge Chair i
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Hidden In Plain Sight
Why blend in when you were built to stand out? The Brik Umbrella Stand by Italian design company Pedrali does just that. Available in six vivid colours, the modular umbrella stand is made of matte, scratch-proof materials. $330, at Suite 22. As part
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Terra Firma
Earth tones of terracotta and sand warm up interiors while a mix of high and low pile heights gives movement to rugs and offers sumptuous padding underfoot. "There is a huge emphasis on the tactile factor," says Richard Sakic of Calligaris Toronto, w
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Slumber Party
Lean into the trend of old-world meets new with the Marcel Cane Bed. Available in a walnut or oak finish, this classic design features a hand-woven cane headboard so that no two pieces are exactly alike. From $2,249, at EQ3. Filled with a blend of co
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AM Studio
Lighting matters. It leads to the understanding of what is around us and what we see. Light alters moods, soothes or excites our senses, affects everything on this planet directly. Light moves at, well, the speed of itself, but other things cannot be
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In The Works
Spirited by the proportions and forms within Asia and Africa, Jeremy Do Hyun Joo’s work draws from the common cultures of floor seating, communal dining, ceremony and sharing. As the mind behind local design studio JDH Projects, Joo translates this d
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Cultural Canvas
Night in the Garden of Love SHEZAD DAWOOD Aga Khan Museum Now through May 5, 2024 Making its Canadian premiere, Night in the Garden of Love is a captivating, multisensory exploration of an imagined universe. Inspired and named after a novella by the
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Mirvish, Act Two
When I was a kid, somebody told me that Honest Ed’s, the beloved discount shop at Bathurst and Bloor, was visible from outer space. I believed this statement wholeheartedly. The place was so outlandish, with its whorls of coloured lights and labyrint
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Retro Kicks
You can almost smell the hairspray. Shoulder pads, angular lines, bold colours and a more-is-more approach define ‘80s style for many of us. But there was so much more. Interior design spanned the gamut of pretty and demure (dusty rose and ruffles) t
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One Of A Kind
Husband and wife team Alina Tacmelova and Yury Goncharov founded their custom fabrication company YA Fabrica to help clients create, well, anything. Digital designs are realized in the physical world using multiple processes and materials. Think furn
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Wash & Go
The owners of this West End house loved its locale, but not much else, so they enlisted David Small Architects and Palmerston Design Consultants for the interiors. “We worked very closely with the clients for many months prior to the shovel going int
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Colour coding
Though beautifully executed, the home’s neutral palette of white-oak panelling and limestone felt too quiet for the new homeowner who sought a symphony of style, colour, and texture. “The overall feeling she had in mind was personal,” says Chan, who
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Portal House
It’s not a riddle, but rather the design brief that architecture and art studio SVIMA accepted when renovating a Toronto couple’s small post-war home in Eglinton West. After living in the house for a decade, the owners, Troy and Amelie and son Ben, w
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The Magic Of Millwork
Tricks with light, collapsible furnishings, and ingenious built-ins render industrial designer Ryan Wilding’s mere 450-square-foot condo expansive. Just off Dundas, in the heart of the West Bend, his small but Zen-filled home makes every inch achieve
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Corktown
Corktown is one of Toronto’s most promising neighbourhoods, where cobblestone streets lead to trendy restaurants and some of the best design shops in the city The superb collections at studio b home span the best in design from around the world. Excl
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Hold the Fort
Orange you glad we recognized something that has been overlooked for enough of a while. The BAG-O-SAND company has been holding the fort, if not actually holding down the fort, around this fair lady of a city for a long, long time. While we are all l

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