The Raw Brilliance of Tom Kundig
A Northwest state of mind.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Tom Kundig’s palette tends toward raw concrete and shaped metal plate, not the woodsy, post-and-beamy version of “Northwest architecture.”
Winter 2010
Shiseido and Clé de Peau Beauté Facial Cotton Pads
Quality counts.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The unsung heroes of morning and evening cleansing regimes.
Chestnuts
A holiday tradition.
What can you make from chestnuts? What can’t you? Velvety soups, indulgent desserts, digestifs, even beer, and especially turkey stuffing, for this is the nut that symbolizes Christmas.
Holiday Flicks
The cinematic calendar.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: From the next Harry Potter installment to next year’s Oscar hopefuls, it’s all crammed into the holiday season like a big buffet of turkey and fixings. After that, nothing but leftovers.
The Final Game
Lacing them up one last time.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: I look out from behind the chrome-coloured bars of my goalie mask. The play unfolds in the opposing end of McCormick Arena in downtown Toronto, affording me a brief opportunity to observe the odd, albeit cherished, drama that is Thursday night pickup hockey.
Chanel No. 5
Fields of Grasse.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: To make its signature No. 5 perfume, Chanel only uses the very best Rosa centifolia, which has come from the same fields in Provence for the last 89 years.
Paul Giamatti
Leading man.
The self-described “stay-at-home-y” actor talks about a certain secret society at Yale, his most persistent fans, and what it was like to play a Canuck.
Liana Yaroslavsky
Art of the table.
When Liana Yaroslavsky fell in love with a Murano chandelier during a trip to Venice, she didn’t know it would one day be the catalyst for her signature chic table designs.
Want Les Essentiels de la Vie
Travel totes.
Although the idea of travel may have once evoked glamorous notions of first-class ocean liners, heavy leather trunks, and high-society ladies with cinched waists and linen handkerchiefs, these days the business of getting from point A to B is an inane process involving airport check-ins, compromised cabin leg room, and jet lag. Enter identical twins Byron and Dexter Peart.