Tag Archive | "Garden"
Indoor/Outdoor at Toronto’s Distillery
Toronto’s Distillery District is leading the design charge this week: yesterday, President’s Choice took over Arta Gallery for a Lawn & Garden Event promoting its latest eco-friendly garden and patio products and then on Saturday and Sunday (May 2 & 3) the site hosts Kimberly Seldon’s Designer Market featuring 40 vendors offering contemporary, vintage and antique furniture, collectibles and fabrics.
Full post and comments...Right Now: Ottawa Spring Shows
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Are you ready for an Ottawa home show crawl this weekend? The Ottawa Home and Garden Show runs thru Sunday (March 29) at Lansdowne Park and the Ottawa Antiques and Vintage Living Sale is on at The Fieldhouse, Carleton University, also until Sunday.
Full post and comments...Historic House Tour: Spadina
Friday, March 6, 2009
In honour of Toronto’s 175th birthday today, I thought I’d offer a tour of one of the city’s oldest and grandest homes, Spadina. The name is aboriginal, probably Mississauga, for hill or mount; the house is perched on a bluff high above the city with a superb view out to Lake Ontario. Originally built in [...]
Full post and comments...Animal House
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Victorian Shoppe (334 Kingston Rd., 416.698.5547) is one of Toronto’s quirkiest, most ramshackle retail adventures. It runs the length of four, or is it five? storefronts along Kingston Road, just east of Woodbine Avenue in the Upper Beach. It’s also one of the city’s best sources of bronze and iron garden statuary. If Noah had one, so does kooky shop owner Chan.
Full post and comments...Folly: The Elephant House
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lewie Gonsalves is the best kind of crazy, the kind that can afford to indulge a fantastical whim like commissioning three granite elephants and then having them shipped from southern India to his beautifully landscaped front garden in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood.
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