Tag: Interior Design Show
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Things TO DO: Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2017

The Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) is Canada’s largest cultural celebration of design with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 16-22, 2017. Going into its 7th year, TO DO transforms Toronto into a hub for creativity, taking design and art out of the studio and into the urban sphere, bringing people…
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Woodlove at IDS 2016

Images by Lauren Miles & Richelle Sibolboro Richelle Sibolboro is Managing Editor of OpenCity Projects WOODLOVE was a curated space at the 2016 Interior Design Show which was on show a couple weeks ago. The little wood trading post helps consumers identify and purchase locally made Ontario Wood products. The space is an homage to…
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IDS14 – Creative Class
The students of Ryerson School of Interior Design examine climate change at this year’s 2014 Toronto Interior Design Show. The interior of the booth showcases quotes to provoke a dialogue about climate change, while the felt represents the friction we have about the subject matter. Design = Change @ IDS14.
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IDS14 – Studio North
The students of Ryerson School of Interior Design look at food security at this year’s Toronto Interior Design Show. The exterior panels reflect a decadent Victoria era where food was in excess during dining times. While, the interior showcases handcrafted utensils interspersed with quotes about the current state of food security in Canada. The dichotomy…
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See the Light
This year’s concept spaces will spotlight iconic lighting brands from around the world. See the Light will feature lighting as the driving force behind the interior design of a space, rather than a complementary addition to a room. Design studios have partnered with top lighting manufacturers to create four very unique spaces. WilliamsCraig Inc. is…
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Pipapo by Jurgen Mayer
Pipapo is a sculptural bench, made of Caesarstone surface from the Supernatural series, with a natural stone pattern delicately milled to create a three dimensional, lattice-like formation. The work is based on Mayer H.’s long standing investigation, both in architecture and art, of data protection patterns found, for example, on the inside of envelopes sent…
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IDS Design Preview – Burst Floor Lamp

The third piece Christopher Solar will be showing at the Interior Design Show is the Burst floor lamp. This tall lamp consists of a set of matched ash slats radiating up and out from a polished concrete base. The slats are laced together with Danish cord and surround a diffused bulb. The result is a…
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Container Culture
In 2012, TAS created the ‘How Do You Live’ exhibition for the Interior Design Show. Six shipping containers were transformed from a utilitarian vessel into inviting living quarters. Showcasing how one can live in a small yet designed footprint. ‘That’s the irony. We’ve taken a box, and with the city’s best creators, made…
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How Do You Work?
Dubbeldam architecture + design create a modular space through reclaimed and recycled shipping palettes.
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blackLAB Colours the Details
blackLAB architects use their personal surroundings as inspiration for their working space. The feature wall showcases an endless supply of prismacolor pencils that are readily available to the designers. While the table projects their working habits with their children.
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Igloo combines Work and Play
Igloo Design brings together the worlds of work and play within their container space. A wallpaper background of books creates a grid-like pattern within the room to comment on our digital culture and need for constant information. Alain Courchesne and Anna Abbruzzo of Igloo Design
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Samare Studio Displays Their Process
Samare Studio displays their thought process up on the walls. From images, to markets, snow shoes to set squares, nothing is left on the cutting room floor. Mania Bedikian of Samare Studio
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Joel Loblaw brings the Outside – Inside
Interior landscaping by Joel Loblaw Inc., brings the outside – inside with an artistic installation of painted logs and strategically places branches. Emily Hall of Joel Loblaw Inc.
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Nendo’s Stonegarden for Caesarstone
Stone garden designed by Nendo for Caesarstone. This exclusive collaboration was created for the 2013 Toronto Interior Design Show by Oki Sato. The collection of ‘table-like’ surfaces are clustered together to form a floating landscape resembling a traditional Japanese stone garden. The tables contain a single rod located in the middle of the finished material…
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Oki Sato of Nendo at IDS 2013
Oki Sato is the head designer for Japanese design firm Nendo. Born in Toronto, Oki graduated with a master’s in architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2002. That same year, Oki and some of his classmates formed Nendo and established the company’s Tokyo office. A second office in Milan was established in 2005, and…
