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When one shop closes…
When Martha Sturdy decided to close the doors on her Vancouver retail outlet earlier this year, she replaced it with a designer gallery/showroom dubbed Gallery…
The creamsicle basement
Here's the situation: You're given a below-ground space to transform from substandard to spectacular. It used to house an antique shop and two other tiny retail…
Pantone and Clariant join forces
New Jersey-based Pantone, a provider of professional colour standards for design industries, and Clariant International of Muttenz, Switzerland, a textile…
Phoenix corners the market
Toronto's Phoenix Floor & Wall Products has recently been awarded sole distribution rights for Forbo products throughout Canada. The company has been a…
The Family of Form exhibition in Milan
Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) of Eindhoven, Netherlands, is celebrating its 60th anniversary by organizing the exhibition The Family of Form, at the Salon del…
SICO Paints goes green
Sico Paints of Longueuil, Que., has announced the removal of all volatile organic compounds (VOC) from its Sico Design product line. The emission-free paint has…
Southeast Asian ceramic art
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, in Washington D.C., is presenting Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia, an exhibition of…
Carpet One Floor & Home fights breast cancer
Carpet One Floor & Home, of Burlington, Ont., has launched its fourth year of battling breast cancer with its Spring 2007 Carpet One Welcomes Your Support…
Master glass works on display
The Corning Museum of Glas,s in Corning, N.Y., is presenting Botanical Wonders: The Story of the Harvard Glass Flowers from May 18 to Nov. 25. The exhibition…
Beating the winter blues
Interior Design Show It was a dark and stormy night, with a bitter-cold February gale blowing off Lake Ontario, as design mavens and hipsters raced from the…
Taking the floor
GREY MATTER Inspired by the runways of New York, Paris, and Milan, where grey has been a fashion fixture for the past few seasons, pre-finished hardwood…
Bright Ideas
After a couple of disappointing years at IDS, one might be forgiven for wondering if the show had lost its relevance to the design community. There are only so…