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Hardware: Inside and Out
It's been awhile since a shop window screamed out at me to be featured in Window Dressing but the current display at Toronto's Hardware Interiors (760 Queen Street East, 416.462.3099) has editorial written all over it. Symmetry, scale, surprise, this window by shop owners Murray Duncan and Jordan Tabachnik has it all. The fierce, head-turning mask at the centre of the vignette is from a private collection being sold on consignment. It's not the sort of thing Hardware usually deals in but the shop's clientele is apparently eating it up. The Congolese Kuba Royal Mask in the window is priced at $950, the figure eight lamps are $385 each and the salvaged-wood display console is $2,100.
Full post and comments...Cool Kitchen Set
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Chris
Bungalow in Toronto's Kensington Market often has terrific pieces in its window and this week is no exception; on Tuesday I caught the display team installing this awesome kitchen set, which the store buyer could only tell me was originally purchased from Scandia in the 1970s. The six-seater set is in mint condition and is priced at $795, which seems eminently fair to me. Just look at that curvaceous corner, you could pull the pie-shaped seat out and use it as an occasional chair in another room.
Full post and comments...IDS 11: Great Displays
Sunday, January 30, 2011 by Chris
When I'm prowling a show like IDS I'm always on the lookout for great displays and vignettes; the more eye candy I can give you darling readers, the more likely you'll be to keep coming back. So here's a selection of beautifully styled booths and spaces that beckoned and said, "Take my picture!" Up Country did a particularly good job, above and below, and was working the hell out of its Down Home Collection featuring the Union Jack, but it was not alone -- Elte also featured the British flag on a distressed, patchwork rug that was combining three trends into one.
Full post and comments...Vintage Heartache on Queen Street East
Saturday, March 27, 2010 by Chris
Toronto's Queen Street East is the city's best mid-century shopping drag and sometimes a trip down there can be the cause of considerable heartache. Like yesterday, for instance. At Phil'z (792 Queen Street East, 416.461.9913), I fell in love with what my companions and I dubbed the Hammock Chair. Shopkeeper Cynthia doesn't have any info regarding its provenance but what we all know is that the chair is a knock-out!
Full post and comments...I, Covetous: South Asian-Inspired Console
Saturday, March 13, 2010 by Chris
On sale for $850, this console in the window of Toronto's Decorum Decorative Finds is exactly the kind of modern-meets-exotica that makes my pulse race. If my living situation weren't so up-in-the-air I'd have brought the piece home with me yesterday. Instead, some other lucky soul will build a magazine-worthy vignette around it -- I trust they'll cherish it as I would.
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