Tag Archive | "Modern"
Cheap Thrills: Pavilion Warehouse Sale
Over. Stock. Those are my new favorite words since touring the Pavilion Warehouse on Toronto's Gladstone Avenue, a short block north of Queen. Pavilion runs a swish home decor store at 739 Queen Street West (at Tecumseth) where you'll pay full-freight for the glamorous retail styling. Me? I'd rather hike another kilometer west and dig into the deals on the warehouse floor where prices have been slashed 30 - 45 per cent on everything in sight.
Library: Glamour, Making it Modern
Friday, June 19, 2009
Now THIS is my idea of shelter porn! A big, beautiful book with high quality photos and just enough text to guide the tour. Rather than weighty chapters or throwaway fluff, Metropolitan Home’s Glamour, Making it Modern gets the balance of copy and sumptuous images exactly right.
Knock-off Heaven: Modern Studio Inc.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Two weeks ago, Modern Studio set up funky new showroom in a former auto body shop at the corner of Dupont and Dufferin streets in Toronto. With bay doors that open onto a large parking lot, the space is airy and bright and brimming with a hit-parade of 20th century classics. Being newly opened, Modern Studio is having a sale, which means even bigger savings on its already competitive prices. For instance the Eames Lounger, regularly priced at $1,699 is currently $1,499 -- Hive Modern retails the genuine Herman Miller piece for $3,700 USD. That’s a BIG difference.
Material Matters: ICFF, New York City
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
For both vendors and buyers New York's ICFF is quite simply THE international show to be at. Shortly into the fair I had a bit of an 'ahha' moment. It suddenly struck me how important materials are to a designer. Give the average Joe a piece of Velcro, a plastic bottle or a bunch of quarters and ask him to make something and well, I think we all know what the outcome would be. But give these same materials to a good designer and magic happens . . .
I, Covetous: Kartell Form
Thursday, May 14, 2009
There's nothing in our home even remotely as modern as designer Piero Lissoni's Form chair for Kartell. And yet I'm absolutely mad about this wide, welcoming chair-and-a-half. Every time I'm at Toronto's Horsefeathers Home, which is where I first fell in love with Form, I make a beeline to the sexy Kartell display, above, to oogle the chair of my dreams ($1,552). Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but this seat really sends me.
Friday, July 17, 2009
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