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.
Just two days ago I suggested that Most!’s $399 Noguchi coffee table was “as low a price as you’re going to find anywhere.” Well, Pavilion makes a lier out of me by moving their over-stock for just $295. You won’t get a choice of woods like you do down the block but a $100 saving is nothing to sniff at.
Pavilion does modern, certainly, but there’s also a grown-up elegance about many of the pieces like the mullioned, mirrored credenza after the jump . . .
The server is constructed of solid wood, not MDF, and is selling for $995, marked down from $1,895. The cream tufted sofa — so Hollywood — is made in Canada with a solid wood frame, reduced from $1,795 to $995.
And as much as I like the cream piece above, I was even more impressed with the hard-wearing, neutral, cotton tweed couch, below, for $895 (marked down from $1,495). Smartly tailored with reversible cushions, the sofa has a quiet masculinity that would work well in almost any style of room.
The Pavilion Warehouse has a variety of lamps on sale in the $99 – $199 range. And then there’s the coffee tables: the Crossbar table, below left, is reduced $300 to $495 and the chunky round Rosario table, below right, is now $595, reduced from $795.
The Pavilion Warehouse (42 Gladstone Avenue) is only open weekends, Saturdays 11 am – 6 pm and Sundays 12 – 5 pm.
July 17th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Good morning, now this is quality. I much prefer the *look* of the smaller two seater couch as opposed to the three. Space is limited in alot of homes (my current Victorian is a mere l4′ wide) so it certainly opens up more options…Lois of lovely things