virtuous pie

The buzzy vegan pizzeria debuted in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 2016, and has now opened a second, 1,900 square foot, two-level location in Portland’s Hosford-Abernethy neighbourhood.

Reframing Nationhood, Of Note, Summer 2017

A new exhibition at the AGO offers timely insight into Canadian history and diverse interpretations of the country’s resonating legacy.

Tomatoes 2.0, FYI Food, Summer 2017

A new variety of vine-grown tomatoes could meet growers’ needs for yield and hardiness while still impressing consumers.

botanist

Helmed by executive chef Hector Laguna, Botanist presents seasonal Pacific Northwestern ingredients with respect and sophistication.

Pictures From Here transports visitors and locals alike past Vancouver’s surface, revealing some of the city’s most artistically formative perspectives of itself.

With Planta, Yorkville’s stylish new plant-based eatery, Toronto has joined the vegan fine dining movement.

EDIT Toronto

A new biennial event aims to show how innovative thought can help “edit” global problems from life.

Since the chateau first opened its doors in 1989, it has enchanted visitors with hospitality, keen service, and world-class amenities.

Always Sakura Tea TWG

In celebration of spring’s ephemeral delicacy, Singapore’s TWG Tea releases its Always Sakura tea.

Fine jewellery undergoes a surrealist, pop-art treatment at the hands of Toronto interior designer–turned–jeweller Holly Dyment.

opera gala

Toronto-based designer Sid Neigum’s fall/winter 2018 collection comes west for an exclusive showing at BMO Overture: All That Glitters, the Vancouver Opera’s signature philanthropic gala.

Lola James Harper Candles

Parisian perfume polymath Rami Mekdachi applies his 20 years of perfumery experience to every evocative fragrance he creates.

Nannette de Gaspé Beaubien

The Canadian beauty entrepreneur has created a quick, non-surgical way to effectively enhance one’s assets.

Nick Wooster

The fashion consultant reflects on his career and personal style, offering insight into how all men can navigate their wardrobes with deftness and grace.

Chocolats Andree

As Montreal’s oldest chocolate shop still using vintage techniques and equipment, Chocolats Andrée doesn’t need novelty to impress—it has history.

Tequila pairings

Tequila and cheese may not seem like the most intuitive pairing, but in fact, together they sing—complementing each other in unexpected and sophisticated ways.

Vij's Indian Meeru

For the cookbook genre, so commonly filled with professionally-styled pictures and impersonal blurbs, Dhalwala’s narrative is a welcome injection of realism.

NUVO Winter 2016 FYI Style: COS

A relationship with the art world is at the heart of this Swedish design label.

Daily Edit, Montrealers in Portrait, Simon & Schuster

Jean-François Nadeau’s black and white photography book chronicles the human face of Montreal from the mid-19th century until 1976.

Winter 2016, Inquiring Minds, Artisanal Tinned Seafood

Burgeoning businesses are working to rebrand canned seafood for a new generation in hopes that young consumers will see canned sardines as an elegant delicacy fit for special occasions.

Ginger Hot Chocolate

For something so healthy, ginger lends itself awfully well to sweet preparations, marrying beautifully with the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and chocolate.

Daily Edit, Hawaii, Four Seasons Oahu

If the goal of one’s vacation is to find a balance between complete relaxation and local adventure, the Four Seasons Oahu does not disappoint, providing a level of detail-oriented luxury unlike that of any other accommodation on the island.

Daily Edit, Vancouver Art Gallery, Carr Assu

From December 3, 2016 to April 17, 2017, the Vancouver Art Gallery will feature inaugural edition of its new triennial in the form of exhibit Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, which strives to document the development of Vancouver’s contemporary art scene and the shifts it has undergone since the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Daily Edit, Holiday bar recipe, the dirty twixter

Easy-to-make holiday dessert bar recipes from chef David Robertson of Vancouver’s Dirty Apron Cooking School and Delicatessen.

Daily Edit, 2017 PuSh Festival, Vancouver

By offering humour and entertainment entwined with a lucid appraisal of the present, PuSh 2017 demonstrates a strength and maturity of programming of which Vancouver may be rightfully proud.

Daily Edit, Equinox Gym, Vancouver

With two established properties already in Toronto, 25-year-old, New York-based Equinox gym opens its third Canadian location—and 84th worldwide—on Vancouver’s West Georgia Street.

Daily Edit, Greta Constantine

Greta Constantine designers Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong have mastered the art of sartorial statement-making.

Martha Wainwright, Goodnight City, Daily Edit

Wainwright’s elegant, vibrational vocals work within each track, unifying the album with her powerfully distinct multifaceted emotional spectrum.

Wade Davis Photographs

In new photography collection, Wade Davis: Photographs author, anthropologist, and former National Geographic explorer-in-residence Wade Davis has selected 140 photographs from the thousands he has taken over the course of 15 years of travel across 80 nations, from Africa to the Arctic, the Columbian Amazon to the temples of Tibet.

heffel

Heffel’s fall 2016 collection will include an unprecedented additional live auction session featuring the single most valuable single-consignor collection ever to come to the Canadian block.

Daily Edit, Roads of Canada, Robbi Bishop-Taylor

PhD student Robbi Bishop-Taylor creates a vivid map of Canadian roads and highways.

Serge Lutens

Batême a Feu is the kind of luminous fragrance you will want to trail through holiday parties, and inhale off your cashmere shawl as you exit into cool nights.

Bobbette & Belle

When Allyson Bobbit and Sarah Bell first met at confectionary school, they recognized in each other not only a mutual love of baking, but a shared work ethic strong enough to become the foundation for a business partnership that would change Toronto’s bakery scene.

I am here

Created in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, with a score by Canadian composer duo Menalon and voice acting by Nicholas Campbell, the film approaches complex themes with an uncommon mix of gravity and whimsicality.

Max Mara relaunches its classic 10180 topcoat with a touring exhibit of Roxanne Lowit’s photography of iconic women donning the timeless garment.

IDS Artists

As IDS West attracts approximately 36,000 design-minded visitors to its exhibitor gallery per year, Collect is a valuable opportunity for local artists to add another dimension through which visitors may deepen their understanding of the province’s creative culture.

hermes at work

Taking place in the Coal Harbour neighbourhood’s Jack Poole Plaza, the 5,000-square-foot event is comprised of nine stations from a watchmaker solving a precise puzzle of gears and screws, to a saddler, leatherworker, silk-printer, gem-setter, and more.

Fairmont Pacific Rim Owner's Suite

Open as of August 2016 and designed by Vancouver architect James K. M. Cheng—one of the godfathers of Vancouverism as an architectural style—the suites incorporate elements of contemporary European design (hello, merlot-hued Ico Parisi–inspired sofa) with localized touches.

TIFF 2016 Lion

Leaning into her microphone at the post-premiere press conference of Lion, the first feature film by Australian director Garth Davis, actor Nicole Kidman admitted, “I don’t think there is a Hollywood anymore.”

champagne macaron

A new collection of eight champagne-flavoured, gold leaf-frosted macarons, filled with a still-alcoholic Moët jelly and buttercream in flavours like Earl Grey-blueberry, gin mojito, and wild berry, has arrived.

Opticality

In advance of London Design Week this month, British designer Lee Broom is transforming his Shoreditch showroom into a simulacrum of… his childhood bedroom.

Just a quick jaunt from the Canadian border, the Pacific Northwestern city of Seattle, Washington, is well-situated for weekend visits and offers plenty for curious travellers to explore.

NUVO winter 2015: Cafe Boulud, Of Note

Visiting Toronto for its annual International Film Festival makes for an excellent opportunity to try out some of the city’s most noteworthy new restaurants—after all, what pairs better with a movie than dinner?

Suntory Toki

Mixed into a traditional Japanese highball, with dense ice, soda water, and a twist of lemon, Toki is an ideal warm-weather refresher.

NUVO Autumn 2016: Lidia Bastianich, Inquiring Minds

Lidia Bastianich, the 69-year-old chef and cookbook author turned culinary celebrity, has played an inimitable role in introducing to the North American palate regional, northern Italian, and Istrian fare.

NUVO Daily Edit: Dandelyon London

Set on the Thames’s South Bank on the ground level of London’s Mondrian Hotel, Dandelyan is the second cocktail bar by author and acclaimed bartender Ryan “Mr. Lyan” Chetiyawardana.

Daily Edit: Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot Project, Bata Shoe

This September, Treadright and Canada’s Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot Project establish a semi-permanent school of traditional mukluk and moccasin artisanship in Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum.

Canada House

While the world watches from afar, the Canadian Olympic coterie will convene at the Rio Canada House, designed pro-bono by architects Yabu Pushelberg in collaboration with Toronto artist Deborah Moss’s creative company Moss & Lam.

NUVO Summer 2016: Concrete Cat, FYI Design

At Edmonton’s Concrete Cat studio, concrete transcends its mundane reputation and is suddenly recast as the star of the show.

Daily Edit: Gojoy Berry Farm

By midsummer, the goji shrubs at Gojoy Berry Farm are in full fruit—their ungainly, slim branches thick with oblong, vermilion teardrops, each the size of a woman’s manicured little fingernail.

Daily Edit: Kabuni Vancouver

The new Vancouver-based interior design business Kabuni melds two key components—an app and a bricks-and-mortar workspace—to simplify the experience of redecorating a home.

Daily Edit: Moonstone Yacht, Oceano

Oceanco has been a company near-synonymous with custom superyachts since 1987, creating some of the more boundary-pushing designs to ever set out to sea.

Daily Edit: The South Okanagan

You may have heard of it: Canada’s desert, the South Okanagan, characterized by its sage-scrub and rattlesnakes and burgeoning status as one of the country’s most popular luxury playgrounds.

NUVO Summer 2016: Poppy Barley, Inquiring Minds

When it comes to handcrafting high-quality custom footwear, Poppy Barley retains an old-fashioned approach.

Daily Edit: Pura Botanicals

With a new baby-care line and an extended collection for men on the horizon, Pura Botanicals may be one of Canada’s most ambitious holistic beauty companies.

Canada's Best Pies, Vancouver, The Pie Hole

We asked judges in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto to select the finest pies in their respective cities. Here are Vancouver’s results.

NUVO Summer 2016: The Avocado Wars, FYI Food

In the Mexican province of Michoacán, avocado crops have become the catalyst for conflicts between farmers and local drug cartels.

grasslands

The Grasslands Project, a series of 10 Canadian National Film Board documentary shorts shot across Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, aims to demystify the Prairies.

NUVO Summer 2016: Food & Beer, Of Note

It’s said that evidence of the first beers consumed by man dates back over 3,900 years.

Italian furniture maker Arper has resurrected Lina Bo Bardi’s 1951 Bowl Chair prototype for modern day production.

Casper Bedding

The Casper Nap Tour Bus sees a trailer outfitted with four Japanese pod hotel–inspired hexagonal sleep nooks, each filled with a mattress and the line’s own pillows and sheets.

Buca Yorkville

Buca Yorkville, the third of lauded Toronto chef Rob Gentile’s expanding cache of Italian restaurants, specializes in uncommon, exquisitely presented seafood dishes in a warmly sophisticated atmosphere.

Daily Edit: Douglas Kirkland in Canada

Celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland is 81 years old, but he can still remember the details of his first major Hollywood assignment: photographing Marilyn Monroe.

Daily Edit: Rockey Mountaineer

Although the landscape could be mistaken for that of the American Southwest, this is Canada, and these are the Painted Bluffs, Kamloops—just one of the many scenic vistas guests aboard the Rocky Mountaineer may observe as the luxury tourist train winds its way through the Rocky Mountains from Vancouver, B.C., to Banff, Alberta.

Kit and Ace

Co-founded by JJ and Shannon Wilson in July 2014, Kit and Ace is Canada’s most rapidly expanding fashion line, born from the merits of a single textile.

Daily Edit: Virtual Reality in Real Life

To better understand how virtual reality technology is currently being used, we invited industry insiders to expound on its applications.

Daily Edit: Doors Open Toronto

Toronto, the first North American city to adopt Doors Open, is celebrating its 17th year of the annual event this month.

Daily Edit: Massimo Bottura

“In my heart of hearts, I feel most comfortable when I am swimming upstream, against the current and looking for my own interpretation of history, culinary traditions, and my identity.”

Having opened in October, 2015, the PHD Terrace Midtown enlivens a neighbourhood more commonly associated with work days than nights out.

Daily Edit: Ferragamo x Sara Battaglia

The Salvatore Ferragamo brand is has become adept at harnessing the power of its own archive, cleverly reviving historic styles with the help of savvy young designers keen to share their skills.

Vancouver’s local shrimp, once thought to be practically inedible, may soon become a status food akin to white truffle, caviar, or dry-aged steak.

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