Photography by Baril Two notable Québec-based entrepreneurs, fashion designer Marie Saint Pierre and Marie-Eve Baril, who heads her eponymous high-end faucet company, joined forces to create Marie, the minimalist, sculptural Platonic essence of the kitchen faucet. The spout features a slender one-inch-diameter body with an integrated pull-down spray head, the ensemble designed as a continuous form…

Photography by Nienkämper Leg warmers for table bases? If that sounds like a “stretch,” Nienkämper’s new collection, designed by modusID, includes wall-mounted tables, media wall tables and smaller meeting tables seemingly inspired by Gumby, the 1950s stop-motion clay animation cartoon humanoid. They boast a tactile feature that adds warmth to any office setting: the Flex-Knit ribbed…

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 Peter Lusztyk The design by Deborah Moss, co-founder of Toronto art studio Moss & Lam, features a curving sculptural base with a fascinating inner life: the base is fabricated from durable steel and wrapped in warm-looking wood veneer using a patented technique. The base’s floating inner shell provides a clever solution for cable concealment,…

Photography by Colin Way / Tara Marshall Now here’s a loudspeaker with WAF, or “wife-acceptance factor,” the humorous term coined by Harry Pearson, late founder of high-end audio journal The Absolute Sound. The laws of physics require a large loudspeaker for faithful bass reproduction. Unfortunately, big hulking boxes tend to dominate a room unless they stand…

Photography by Teknion Telescope stands out in the architectural wall system space thanks to its soft-close and soft-open mechanism, offering a seamless operation. Designed for efficient space division with multiple sliding panels, each moving simultaneously and in a synchronized manner, this synchronization is achieved through a belt mechanism connected to each panel at the top. A…

Photography by ColorMass True to its Swedish roots, Stockholm-based design studio Afteroom brings a sense of Scandinavian austerity and functionality to the Crux Collection, manufactured by Division Twelve, Keilhauer’s bent-steel-furniture subsidiary. The collection, made from oak and tubular steel, comprises a chair, bar and counter stools and round and square café, bar and counter tables.…