Tag: Furniture
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Interior Design Show 2022 – Review
My review of the 2022 Interior Design Show, Canada’s premier event for Canadian Design
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DesignTO 2022: Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery
A group exhibition – Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery for DesignTO
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DesignTO 2022: Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery
My review of DesignTO 2022 exhibition Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery Toronto
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DesignTO 2022: Must-See Exhibitions
This year I decided to do check out the North end of the city for DesignTO. This year I really wanted to experience in-person exhibitions. I’ve done the window display thing, and in this cold weather, I prefer to be inside, taking my time, then outside rushing. Here is my list of sites to see…
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5 Tips for Tackling DesignTO 2022
DesignTO 2022 and these are my top 5 tips to tackling the festival this year.
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Salone del Mobile – The Manifesto
As another Salone del Mobile approaches, one interesting development is to see how exhibitors and the rest of the industry will respond to a new manifesto that was published ahead of the event. The manifesto calls upon the industry to up its innovation and sustainability, citing specifically the need to embrace the “circular economy” and…
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NEO LAMINATI by Kelly Behun
The Neo Laminati collection is a reinterpretation of some of the 20th century’s most memorable design movements: Avant Garde, OpArt, the Memphis Group and Minimalism. All surfaced in high quality laminates, each piece in the collection is available in a range of finish combinations including three custom stripe patterns and a rainbow of pre-selected solid…
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Interior Design Show 2014: Moroso Lounge
The Toronto Interior Design Show is the place to be for design enthusiasts. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre every January, the show sees the space transformed by hundreds of booths featuring the best of interior design from Canadian and international designers. The Moroso lounge celebrates Patrizia Moroso, who was IDS’s international guest of honour…
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Islands by Raw-Edges Design Studio
As part of their ongoing commitment to creating new platforms for design, Caesarstone has collaborated with London design studio Raw Edges to produce Islands. The brief was to re-examine the domestic environment and the use of surface. With their signature creativity, Raw-Edges transforms the surface into the structure itself. Available in a range of sizes…
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Philippe Starck for Flos
Philippe Starck describes the concepts behind this latest lamps for Italian manufacturing firm Flos.
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Zephyr Sofa by Zaha Hadid
The Zephyr sofa by Zaha Hadid is a sculpted piece of lacquered fiberglass, designed for Italian furniture company Cassina Contract. The carved shape was inspired by nature and how rock formations are eroded and shaped by the wind over time. The deeply sculpted backrests and sinuous forms allow the sofa to be arranged in a…
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Seat Belt Bench
Strap bench by Ottawa-based designer Christopher Solar, is a seat that is made of bold and woven seat belts. The webbed combination is framed by white oak, ash and walnut, which are personally selected by Solar. The piece is part of a collection that can be figured to seat or table-height sizes, varying lengths and…
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Flask by Tom Dixon
British design and manufacturing company Tom Dixon has design GEM. Part of the Rough and Smooth collection, presented at this year’s 2013 Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, like a mysterious chemistry experiment FLASK is a spherical object made up of two, hand-blown, glass components, with a ridged and rounded base and a smoked-glass hood.
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Swarm Chandelier by Zaha Hadid
The Swarm Chandelier for Established & Sons, designed by Zaha Hadid, expresses the sense of perpetual motion that characterizes the studio’s work. Its hundreds of reflective black crystals are suspended in petal-like volumes, as if thrown into space by a controlled explosion. From afar, the intricately layered chandelier appears as a unified whole, only revealing…
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Mercuric Marble Tables by Zaha Hadid
Mercuric Tables by Zaha Hadid for Citco are a reinterpretation of luxury and craft. The limited edition collection is a set of three tables made of black marquina and bianco di covelano marble. The gold vein that threads itself through the pieces exhibit the strength of the stone and the vigour of nature. The organic…
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Serif Shelf by Zaha Hadid
Designed by Zaha Hadid for Established & Sons the Seamless collection is a dialogue to geometry and materiality. The limited edition pieces are painted in a bespoke polyester colour and finished to the highest standard in a polyurethane lacquer. The Serif Shelf, pictured above expands on the architectural language that combines repetition and variation while…
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Les Ailes Noires by +tongtong
Toronto-based studio +tongtong has designed a series of flexible and playful clothing racks. Les Ailes Noires, which is french for black wings, is a series of shapes that play with the sense of spatial and volumetric perception. The geometric welded steel collection features 11 pieces, that includes a full-length mirror, a wall-mounted sideboard with glass…
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Stone-Edge Tables
The Stone-Edge Table collection, premiering at the Milan Design Week, features seven wooden tables with embellished corner and leg details. The material which is traditionally used for counter-tops is taking on a new meaning and minimalistic beauty in this blended and contemporary form. Designed by Nendo for Caesarstone, the organically shaped pieces are crafted from…
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Animal House
The collection highlights the unique quality of each piece which showcases a balance between furniture and art.
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Smiling Seat
The piece was designed to bring out the nature of the ash without loosing the feel of the massive material.
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Bent Wood Tables
The collection features the raw, hand-crafted components as animated forms which are typically never seen outside of the manufacturing process.
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Street Furniture
The pieces are made of deployeé plate to give the appearance of a lightweight image against the bulky urban elements.
Richelle Sibolboro 