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What’s New, What’s Now at IIDEX/NeoCon

Saturday, September 24, 2011

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While January’s Interior Design Show encompasses residential spaces and applications, IIDEX is much more focused on contract architecture, landscape and hospitality design with lots of trade-only seminars. IIDEX/NeoCon is where designers and commercial buyers come to source the latest materials, textiles, wall and floor coverings, lighting and storage systems. Sustainability continues to dominate the design world with revolutionary materials and new technologies stealing most of the thunder. Think: Material (above) is this year’s showcase of innovative wall and flooring materials made from everything from coconut shells and sugarcane pulp to new polymers, laminates and recycled glass.

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Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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Passing by Toronto's Office & Shop Furniture yesterday I was stopped in my tracks by the window display of the new Pasha Chair from Italy's Pedrali. Where Philippe Stark borrowed an open-armed, medallion-back design for his ubiquitous Louis Ghost Chair, Pedrali goes for the full-on Bergere. What's so striking is how thin and impossibly sexy the molded polycarbonate is; priced at $560 each, the chair is brand new to North America and comes in black, white, clear or smoked with a fabric seat cushion for added comfort. But that wasn't the only thing I was jazzed about at the Office Shop . . .

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So Hip it Hurts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Project Runway judge Nina Garcia often describes this or that design as being "very editorial," meaning it will jump off a page and look good in her magazine. I can only assume that's why Studio Pepe Heykoop's fugly Skin collection is featured in today's Globe and Mail. If this ridiculous design from the Netherlands is available in Canada, Globe Style editor Danny Sinopoli is keeping the details to himself. You can bet the chairs cost a small fortune, which further begs the question, what kind of slobbering trend addict would shell out hard-earned smack for something so preposterous? Get a load of the Martin Margiela chair, below, described on the Pepe Heykoop site as "dirty chique." Need I say more?

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RE:Style Studio Sale and Workshops

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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If I was younger and prettier — and female — I’d want to be Andrea Ford, above, the stylist, blogger and DIY champ who runs RE:Style Studio where she tackles her own projects and teaches people like me how to take on their own. I’ll be joining Andrea June 11 & 12 for her BYOP (bring your own piece) workshop, where she’ll help me turn a $20 flea market chair into what I hope will be a stunner. . . This weekend Andrea is holding her first ever RE:Style Studio Sale where she’s parting with some of her one-of-a-kind showstoppers; prices range from $200 for an ottoman to $2,000 for the spectacular black and white settee. If your space needs a wake-up call put the RE:Style sale on your calendar. And if you’ve got a chair of your own you’re dying to makeover join us in two weeks as we roll up our sleeves and try to turn our trash into treasure.

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D.O.T. Furniture: Bargain Brand Goes Elite

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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There's nothing high-end about the D.O.T. Furniture brand, at least there wasn't until it opened its new location at the corner of Davenport Road and Dupont Street, just a stone's throw from Toronto's swish Designer's Walk. Featuring three floors of furnishings, much of it geared to the outdoors, D.O.T. Elite represents the retailer's attempt to raise its profile and its game. The showroom styling leaves a lot to be desired, particularly the lower level which looks more like a storage locker than a display space, but there are some good-looking pieces down there. In fact, I was quite taken with many of the store's outdoor offerings, especially the sexy DaVinci resin wicker set above and below with it's fab infinity sign coffee table.

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