Photography by David Cannon The reputation of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), French-American wife and collaborator of the more-famous Jean Tinguely, the Swiss neo-Dadaist sculptor, is set to rise thanks to a recent exhibition at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. The 150 late works on display featured her fantasy Italian medieval town inspired by…
Photography by doublespace Photography This house comprises two L-shaped volumes, one dedicated to private living, the other to the common spaces, connected by a glass bridge. The continuous brick façade is interrupted by garage doors and an oversized oak pivot entry door. Tumbled natural stone flooring and hot-rolled steel wall panels define the foyer, drawing the…
Photography by Cadesign form or Peter Andrew Lusztyk Picture a cushy sofa with biscuit-tufted (as in Mies’s iconic Barcelona chair) upholstery chopped into segments perching on spindly, lunar excursion module legs with black plastic casters. Designed by EOOS, Unifi is a modular system comprising lounge chairs on casters or a sled base, plus multiple side-chair models,…
Photography by Cosentino Those engineered-stone disruptions just keep coming. First, the surfacing industry was forced to reformulate its product and reduce silica content to deal with a global surge in silicosis among fabricators. Now Cosentino aims to shake up the industry again with the launch of Éclos, a new mineral surfacing brand standing alongside its existing…
Photography by Thom Fougere What marble is to Florence and travertine is to Rome, Tyndall stone is to Canada. The cream-coloured limestone, quarried exclusively in Tyndall, Man., incorporates contrasting dark veiny mottling that is fossilized remains of arthropods that swam in Lake Agassiz, which covered the region at the end of the last ice age.…
Photography by Tyler Hooks The brick-and-mortar locations of this high-end Canadian luggage and travel accessories brand have been getting noticed recently for how cleverly their spaces are conceived as a spatial journey that mirrors the rituals and rhythms of travel itself. Set within the Washington, D.C. neighbourhood of Georgetown’s historic brick streetscape, this particular store unfolds…
Photography by Scott Norsworthy Berczy Square reimagines the lobby of the 33 Yonge Street tower as an urban living room by transforming the former pass-through atrium—the only atrium-style office lobby in Toronto’s Financial District—into a welcoming destination. Revitalizing and capitalizing on its 13-storey height, the project offers a layered sequence of spaces that balance hospitality, work…
Photography by Riley Snelling “Cabinets of curiosities” (wunderkammern in German) first emerged in mid-16th-century Europe as highly personal, often chaotic collections of rare and unusual objects. This new flagship reframes jewelry retail through that lens, replacing pristine minimalism with a richer culture of discovery. The 2,350-sq.-ft. space unfolds as a sequence of intimate rooms where jewelry…
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