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“The primal form of all dwelling is not a house but a case. This bears the imprint of its dweller.”
-Walter Benjamin…
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Design we love: an old wagon jack?
We saw this strange rustic object in Robin Fraser’s shop–called REC + ART HISTORY–on Queen West last week. He explained that it was a wagon jack, for hoisting up your wagon and fixing its ailing wheel. It has a …
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Design we love: chandelier feathers
At Symbolist, an intriguing and always mysterious second-hand store at 1080 Queen Street West, there is a big basket filled with these charming metal feathers. They cost a mere $3.00 each, and while they once apparently graced a chandelier …
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It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.”
-Elias Canetti…
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Art we love: ceramics by Robert Archambeau
We’ve not always been big fans of ceramics–a lot of it seems artsy and sentimental– but we’ll always make an exception for the exquisite stoneware pieces of veteran ceramics artist Robert Archambeau. Archambeau, who won the Governor General’s Award in …
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“A poem is a poem, a building is a building, architecture is architecture, music is…it’s all structure. Essential. I use it as language.”
– Architect and theorist John Hejduk.…
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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 …
