Do artists and designers have cooler spaces than the rest of us? Um, yes, as it turns out, at least that’s the conclusion I drew from Design Domestic, a photo exhibit currently up at Toronto’s Design Exchange until August 19. Curated by Noa Bronstein, the show presents glimpses of the personal tastes and styles of some well-known Canadian curators and design professionals, people like industrial designer Andrew Jones (no relation), whose dining room is pictured above. Other featured spaces belong to Jason MacIsaac (Ministry of the Interior), Shaun Moore (MADE), Montreal landscape architect Claude Cormier and installation artist An Te Liu (below), among others.
Each set of photos is accompanied by an “artifact” from the subject’s home, like Katherine Morley’s porcelain Arctic Bookends, below, from Moore’s space.
One item in particular that caught my eye was a Juliane chair (below) in An Te Liu’s home: it’s a rare chair that’s been featured here on styleNorth in one of my favorite posts by Susan Forint (saf affect).
Design Domestic is on show in the DX lobby and admission is free so swing by on a lunch hour if you’re in the business district; upstairs is a pretty great survey of Canadian design called Bent Out of Shape, which I blogged about on LiveWithCulture.ca recently.
Photos courtesy of Design Exchange except exhibit shot by Chris
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Thanks for the reminder, Chris. I’ve meant to pop by the DX to see this exhibit myself. And so lovely to see the Juliane chair that you know I love so much!
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Hi Chris: Thanks for your input, but NO the designers you show, are Not Cooler! The yellow circle on the ceiling is just a “tonge in cheek amusement!
Lets see some other Design influences….