“If we actually possessed one grain of knowledge, there would be no holding us back.”

Michel de Montaigne

“I have great love and respect for colour, just as I do for words. I find it very hard work to employ both effectively.”

Ettore Sottsass in The Curious Mr. Sottsass: Photographing Design and Desire, Thames and Hudson, 1994, p.75…

Design We Love: the Solair Chair

We were quite taken—or, I suppose, more accurately, re-taken—by the sight of two of these venerable chairs on the sidewalk outside of INabstracto, on Queen Street West, just a couple of blocks from the Art Condos building.

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Construction Pics From on Site

Right now at the Art Condos site at Queen and Dovercourt, the team is wrapping up concrete work on the third floor and getting started on the fourth floor walls and columns.

Gary Silverberg: Part I

In this, the first of a series of video interviews, critic and writer Gary Michael Dault talks to Art Condos developer Gary Silverberg, at his home in North Toronto, about the Art Condos concept and the project’s beginnings.

“A great building is the greatest conceivable work of art because it represents difficulties annulled,
resources combined, labour, courage and patience.”

Henry James