Tag Archive | "Colour"
Brave New Kitchen
Mike and I spent yesterday afternoon installing a couple of recent purchases at the new apartment. We've had the amazing chrome table base for a few years but just last week we scored a spectacular marble top on Craigslist for $200. The vivid flatweave rugs were originally joined along the long side to make more of a square (St. Lawrence Market, $100) but we've elected to break them up and use one as a runner in the galley kitchen. It's weird to have the kitchen set up while the adjoining room is a riot of boxes -- the room will be our oasis of promise amid the chaos of the move, inspiring us to make the rest of the place just as exciting.
Shops: Holy Cow!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Toronto-based globe-trotter and restaurateur Aristedes Pasparakis and his designer wife, Alexia von Beck, have taken the plunge into home decor with their latest endeavor, an exotic gift and furnishing shop on Toronto's Queen Street East. Holy Cow! is a celebration of all things South Asian.
Colour Story: Metallic Black
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
When I was scouting along Yonge Street's Rosedale decor strip last week I kept seeing black lamps and accessories with a metallic iridescence, almost like a matte finish that had been stubbornly polished until it shone, like the dull gleam of aged bronze. I missed the Canadian Gift and Tableware Association show last month but Arminé Tatosian, co-owner of AT Design Group (5 MacPherson Avenue), told me that shine was a recurring theme across all the exhibit halls.
Colour Story: More About Madder
Friday, August 28, 2009
Although it can be quite vivid as in the samples below, madder typically refers to a rustier red like the carpet above or it can have a rosy, purplish cast. Madder is to red as Indigo is to blue, a valuable, ancient commodity that presaged commercial dyes by thousands of years. Madder was the basis for alizarin, the first natural pigment to be synthetically duplicated (in 1869).
Window Dressing: Simple And Striking
Thursday, August 20, 2009
I know a shop window is successful if it catches my eye as I bump along on a streetcar and then backtrack to take a closer look. That's what happened Tuesday when I spied the pair of displays currently greeting the street at Patina Antiques (219 Queen Street East, 416.862.8880). Two credenzas, two pairs of lamps -- there's nothing extraordinary about these windows but they're graphic and well-composed and because they frame the entryway, they provide a pleasing symmetry.
Monday, January 4, 2010
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