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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 lapping …
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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.It… -
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!… -
About the Neighbourhood – TYPE Books.
In an age in which the book seems always to be under threat, Type Books seems more and more a welcome, even life-saving oasis of literacy. The wit and charm of Type is exemplified right away in its outdoor sign–an… -
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 actual …
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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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About the Neighbourhood – “Taking A Stand” On Queen West
This caught our eye the other day. It struck us as arresting that in the simple act of putting a chair on top of a table,you could rob both objects of their original function and turn the whole structure… -
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… -
Around the Neighbourhood.
A baroque refuse container outside the Gladstone Hotel
A Queen Street Greeting
Cabbages and Kings
The Art of Street Life
Last Roses of Summer…
