Guillaume Riel, Philip Staszewski, Gabrielle Rousseau, and David Kirouac are university friends who have formed Ivy Studio, the collaborative design practice that delivers bold and bespoke spatial solutions.
Matthew Hague
Matty Matheson’s Prime Seafood Palace by Omar Gandhi
Matty Matheson appreciated Omar Gandhi’s warm yet minimal aesthetic and wanted his new dining room to have a similar vibe: clean lines, lots of wood, and a hint of Scandinavian hygge mixed with Japanese modernism.
Vancouver’s AE.R Skinlab by Leckie Studio
Standout architecture at Vancouver’s new cosmetic dermatology clinic.
Montreal’s Whimsical Café Constance
The café in the lobby of Montreal’s Wilder Building attracts passersby with its whimsy. The ceiling is adorned with floating pink tutus, and the tables are topped with tassel-fringed lamps. The fantastic space is the latest addition to a building that started life as something quite quotidian.
In Partisans We Trust
Pooya Baktash, Jonathan Friedman, and Alex Josephson, the trio that make up the Toronto-based studio Partisans, approach architecture not just as a discipline but as a social statement.
Alessandro Munge
The founder and principle of Studio Munge has a focused, narrative driven style that shapes the finer elements of interior design.
Toronto Design Studio Moss & Lam
If the name “Deborah Moss” isn’t familiar, it’s because for a long time she has been a “secret resource of top interior designers.”
Designer Mischa Couvrette
The Ottawa-born, Toronto-based creative has achieved what many independent designers can only dream of.
Sally England Macramé
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Macramé is often considered campy, not classy (blame those strange owls with the off-putting wooden eyes). Sally England, a Michigan-based fibre artist, is helping to revive and modernize the knot-based craft in a way that even the most discerning design lover could appreciate.
Thoreaux Wallpaper
On the front windows of Whitman Emorson, a strategic design consultancy in Toronto’s west end, dozens of paper stars cascade across the panes. From the street, the celestial bodies look like origami.
The Furnishings of JM&Sons
As far as furniture makers go, Andre Jr. Ayotte (who simply goes by Junior) and Mackenzie Duncan, co-founders of the Toronto-based studio JM&Sons, each have odd resumés for the job. They both hand-make excellent condo-sized tables, chairs, and shelving. But neither of the friend ever studied carpentry or woodworking or industrial design.
Dror Benshetrit
The utter abstractness of a Mark Rothko canvas or the shocking sparseness of a Donald Judd installation may seem like odd inspiration for a modular kitchen system. Minimalist art, after all, is by its very nature impractical. Our cook spaces, on the other hand, have to perform a multitude of hard, fast, and often messy functions.
International Contemporary Furniture Fair
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is held every spring during NYCxDesign (New York’s design week). It’s a dizzying spectacle that draws almost 30,000 visitors. After sitting on, treading over, and just plain admiring the collections all weekend, here are six of our favourite highlights.
