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About the neighbourhood: a favour for our furry friends.
We were sauntering along Queen Street West a couple of days ago, enjoying the brand-new sunshine, when we noticed–in front of a store called Heel Boy, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park–this delighted little dog, munching happily at the bone-shaped biscuits and…
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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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Design We Love – Venice Chairs
These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than…
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ART WE LOVE: HWEON 1 by CHUNG-IM KIM
Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like…
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Art We Love: Julie Jenkinson – 36 Hours in Uruguay
Designer Julie Jenkinson runs the micro-shop called Verso, tucked into the rear of Inabstracto on Queen StreetWest. Last year she spent three months in South America, thirty-six hours of which were spent in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.…
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Photos from Art Condos Parka Party
ART CONDOS’ Parka Party [in the afternoon of February 23] was the coolest and coldest party in the city. Hope you had a blast! -
ART CONDOS GREEN THUMB: CONDO BULBS
Well, it’s March and of course spring bulbs don’t push up through the softening earth and blossom until April. Actually they never do in condos.
The solution, clearly, is to cart home some forced bulbs—Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinths, Narcissus, Crocuses—that you…
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ART WE LOVE: Two Door Mats by Gerald Ferguson
Halifax-based conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) always did everything he could to avoid making beautiful paintings—but ended by making them anyhow, almost against his will. One of his ploys was to distance himself as much as possible from the…
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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…
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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 write a paragraph…
