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Design We Love: Black Cat Lamp
We were both attracted and, at first, a bit put off by the funky directness of this little lamp. Its tasteful black shade is profoundly belied by the body of the map—which is a feral-looking black cat-made of fired clay!…
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Design We Love: Buddha Machines
Maybe there ought to be a column in this blog called Design That Simply Catches Our Fancy—a place to explore objects that, while they may not kick the history of design ahead by much, are, nevertheless, attractive and pleasing.
Like…
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Design We Love: the Duke Lamp
This guileless-looking but somehow cheerfully forceful lamp–the Duke table lamp by Salgado Saucier of Milford, Pennsylvania–is made of resin with a silk shade. According to Hanson Tan of Industrial Storm you can have the lamp “in any colour…
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Green Thumb: The Pencil Cactus
We mention to Rebecca MacLachlin of Poppies that we’re looking for houseplants that are easily grown in condos and she leads us, enthusiastically, to a great, towering, spiky-green, indoor jungle of a plant called A Pencil Cactus. We…
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Art We Love: Art Brownies
These hotly coloured, inventively composed mini-blocks of art activity are, in fact, Art Brownies: small, unique works of art made by various artists, both local and international, on one standard format, each Art Brownie being a mini-canvas consisting of…
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Green Thumb: Anemones
Walking into Demarco-Perpich on Queen street West is like walking straight into an impossibly opulent, floral still life painting by Edouard Manet. The day we were there, the doorway was almost blocked by a spectacular surge of soft…
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John Petcoff of Little Lennox
As well as being a tireless and successful restauranteur–see our video about his seafood eatery, Oyster Boy–John Petcoff is also passionate about art and about running a gallery.
His former art gallery, Lennox International, was at Queen West…
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Design We Love: the GT Rocker
We were struck by the clean, classic beauty of this modernist rocking chair at STYLEGARAGE on Queen Street West. We grew even more impressed when we found the sleek—and almost absurdly comfortable chair—was designed and built right on the premises.…
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Green Thumb: the Air Plant
Growing houseplants in a condo—which, one supposes, would make them condoplants—is not as easy as all that for the simple reasons that a) condos are not known to be as tropically moist as greenhouses, and b) condo owners are busy…
