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The Little Bed That Could.
Given this expedient age’s tendency to throw everything away and buy new, we think it’s refreshing that TEB Interiors–whose principal, Terry Edward Briceland designed the Art Condos model suites–took on the refurbishing of this elderly settee. Seeing the object as …
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MONDO CONDO: TERRY EDWARD BRICELAND: PILLOW TALK
Terry Edward Briceland , the young designer who begat the Art Condos model Suites, runs a company called TEB Interiors alongside his business parter, Matthew Adams. Although they are now launching a line of beds and other ambitious objects, TEB …
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MONDO CONDO: The ART Condos Model Suites.
Everybody knows that no matter how well-designed a space may be, it looks a lot warmer, spacious and therefore, a lot more enjoyable when it’s furnished.
A condo unit may have vast windows that let the natural light pour in, …
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ART Condos About The Building – Oleson on Terraces
It was a moment of what you might call architectural narcissism that compelled us to take yet another photo of the almost completed Art Condos building. After which, we emailed the building’s architect, David Oleson, asking him if he would …
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Design we love – Verso Contemporary Pendant Lamps.
As gorgeous as Industrial Storm’s hanging lights are, they are admittedly quite expensive. For those who don’t want to put quite so much into a lamp, there is this sleek alternative–at designer Julie Jenkinson’s Verso. These contemporary grey, steel, pendant …
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Art We Love – Steve Driscoll’s “CEDAR FALLS”
This prodigious, unreasonably beautiful painting is titled Cedar Falls. It’s huge (9 ‘; x 10), and glistens like a wet forest with the pigmented urethane with which it is painted.
The painting is by a young,Toronto-based painter named Steve Driscoll. …
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Art Condos ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD:
Just taking a stroll around the Art Condos neighbourhood, here’s our take on life in lovely West Queen West!You’ve Changed? So have we. So has the neighbourhood. So has everything.A cityscape of sunlight igniting the walls of the… -
Art Condos About the Neighborhood
Art Condos took a quick walk through the neighbourhood to check out some “found art”.
Graffiti grows up. This slickly professional-quality portrait graces the outside north wall (a few feet down the alley) ofthe David Kaye Gallery at… -
Design We Love – Industrial Storm
These exquisitely designed and crafted hanging lamps from Sterling and Son, New York–and available at Toronto’s Industrial Storm–feature glass canopies and metal liners. The lamps come in three sizes, with diameters of 18 inches, 23.25 inches and 31 inches. …
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Art We Love – Thrush Holmes
The lyrically named Thrush Holmes (yes, it’s his real name!) is not what you’d call a repressed painter. This gigantic work–about as big as a Still Life painting ever gets–is 84″ x 180,” and is emblazoned with the artist’s trademark …
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David Oleson on Art Condos Facade Design
For our previous two chats with Art Condos architect David Oleson, we discussed a few basic design issues pertaining to the new building. Topics covered include overall design decisions, the building’s use of glass, ideas about the look …
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Art we love: the happy zones by Jose Ciria
For his third exhibition at the Christopher Cutts Gallery–Window Dreamer–New York based Spanish painter Jose Ciria has produced a suite of vast, chromatically explosive paintings which, while they may indeed invoke what the gallery calls the “sanguinity and terra …
