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Lantern Love: Palmyra Design

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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You've probably never seen lanterns quite like some of those brought to Canada by Fran Devlin, the intrepid world traveler behind Palmyra Design. When you visit the Palmyra showroom on Derry Road in the lee of the Niagara Escarpment, Fran will ask for a few moments so she can go ahead and light the room. Shortly, she'll beckon you to come around the house — yes, Palmyra's showroom in the lower annex of Fran's home in Milton, Ontario — and enter her magical kingdom of light.

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Worth It? Shagreen Furnishings

Saturday, April 25, 2009

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Now, this is something you don't see everyday. Shagreen furnishings are relatively rare so I was surprised to see a number of examples at Toronto consignment store Of Things Past, last week. Shagreen, is a fancy designer term meaning shark skin or more commonly, ray skin. The roughly textured skins—often dyed green, hence the name--are laminated over wooden forms, giving them a luxe, exotic look. Inexplicably, some of the pieces at Of Things Past were labeled as being covered in “sustainable” stingray skin. Tell that to the stingrays.

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Karen’s Born Again Bedroom

Monday, April 20, 2009

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StyleNorth reader Karen wrote in to share a miraculous bedroom makeover she recently slam-dunked. "I thought you might enjoy seeing it," she wrote, "since you played a small part in it—Moveline Liquidations! As you can see by the before shot our master bedroom wasn't worthy of the name. A couple of weeks ago I headed to Oakville and checked out Moveline Liquidations. What a great place! I had so much fun and you're right, there's no breaking the bank."

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Where to Find . . . Genuine Art Moderne

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Deco, deco, deco. Art deco has to be the most misused term in home decorating. If I had a dollar for every time I saw “art deco” used to describe some piece of junk on Craigslist I’d be able to afford to shop in Wenda Thomson and Gray Abraham’s stupendous Decollect, located in tiny, perfect Port Hope, Ontario, about an hour east of Toronto.

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Cheap Thrills: Moveline Mirrors

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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Mike and I cannot drive through Oakville without swinging into Moveline Liquidations, which we did last week on our way home from Rose-Hill. As usual, there was lots of great stuff at Moveline but it was the plethora of mirrors that really caught my attention.

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