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COVER — 27 A new kind of country kitchen, designed by its architect owners with help from Bulthaup. Photo by Bob Gundu

CONTENTS FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

Taste Matters

INSIDE — 10 WHAT’S UP — 12

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW — 27 In a rural Ontario kitchen, sturdy old bones – the skeleton of a two-storey Victorian gristmill – surround a cuttingedge Bulthaup system. By John Bentley Mays CHILL OUT — 35 Cool new stuff for the kitchen. By Michael Totzke TOUCH & GO— 42 With Quebec City’s Restaurant Ô 6ième sens, Amiot Bergeron Architectes faced an interesting challenge: how to develop a design to suit a visually impaired waiting staff. By Rhys Phillips

PREVIEW — 16 “O” is for… …all things Office, at Orgatec, in October. By Michael Totzke SHOW BIZ — 19 Calming effect Going for the greys at the hectic High Point Market. By Michael Totzke WHO’S WHO — 48 LAST WORD — 50 Flat-out fantastic Here’s to the three big winners of the 2012 Prairie Design Awards. By Michael Totzke

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Firsts To market, to market – to High Point Market in the city of High Point, North Carolina – I went this past April. It was my first visit to the largest home-furnishings trade show in the world, and like all first visits to a show of this nature, it was strange, overwhelming, educational, invigorating – and entirely memorable. Picture the downtown area of a small city, with each and every building crammed full of furnishings: we’re talking 10s of thousands of new product introductions, from 2,000 exhibitors, spread over 10 million square feet of show space. Founded in 1909, and originally known as the Southern Furniture Market, High Point established itself as a significant fixture in the American home-furnishings industry with the completion of the Southern Furniture Exposition Building in 1921; made it through the boom and bust of the ‘20s and ‘30s; grew and expanded through the century, becoming the furniture capital of the world, renamed the International Home Furnishings Market in 1989; and changed its name once more, becoming High Point Market in 2007. High Point holds two week-long shows a year, one in April and another in October. You’ll find my report, “Calming effect,” on page 19. Quebec City recently marked a first: the opening of the city’s only restaurant to feature gourmet dining in absolute darkness, served by a visually impaired wait staff. “Blind dining” was the brainchild of the Reverend Jorge Spielmann, who, in 1999, opened a restaurant called Blinde Kuh (German for “blind cow”) in Zurich; since then, similar spots have opened in Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Montreal and Toronto. Unlike most of these, Quebec City’s Restaurant Ô 6ième sens, as associate editor Rhys Phillips explains, “is augmented with a lit section that serves as both an after-dinner drinks and conversation lounge and budget-conscious New York–style bistro during lunch” – the focus of his report (see “Touch & go,” page 42). Firsts of another kind are celebrated in this issue’s Last Word (“Flat-out fantastic,” page 50): the three big winners of the 2012 Prairie Design Awards. With regard to innovative and inspiring design, the SAIT Polytechnic Parking Garage (by Bing Thom Architects), OMS Stage (by 5468796 Architecture Inc.) and La Cuisine (by Syverson Monteyne Architecture) are second to none. c I Michael Totzke mtotzke@canadianinteriors.com

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JULY/AUG Architects, unite! Ian Chodikoff (top left), editor of Canadian Architect, will moderate the Architectural Keynote; scheduled to participate are (clockwise from top right) Janna Levitt, of Toronto’s Levitt Goodman; John Peterson, of U.S. nonprofit Public Architecture; and Michael Murphy, of Boston’s MASS Design Group.

IIDEX, reborn This September in Toronto, it’s not the same old IIDEX/ NeoCon Canada coming around again. With the involvement of Architecture Canada|RAIC – co-presenting the show with IDS (Interior Designers of Canada) – the country’s National Design + Architecture Exposition & Conference has an expanded

multidisciplinary focus. IIDEX is now 10 expos in one: Architecture Canada, Workplace Design, Light Canada, Hospitality Canada, Education Canada, Landscape Architecture, Material World, Textile Design and Retail Design. Brand-new attractions abound. Candela (Ottawa Light Art Exhibition) shines a spotlight on the exploration of electric lighting as an artistic medium. The International Pavilion showcases 10 to 15 European manufacturers with a mix of products and photos. Chair Connection – a joint project of IIDEX and Montreal’s SIDIM design show – features chairs manufactured at

An eye for beauty Paris-based designer Patrick Norguet (whose Rest chair for Fasem is at left) will deliver the Design Keynote. 12 CANADIAN INTERIORS july/August 2012

The light fantastic Delivering the Lighting Keynote will be Will Hastings, senior show-lighting designer of Walt Disney Imagineering. Shown here is Jasmine’s Flying Carpets at Tokyo DisneySea in Japan.

home and abroad, selected by 30 IDC members across Canada. The YSmell Project, featuring finalists of a new store-design competition by the Toronto chapter of the Retail Design Institute, includes a scent display created by Nose Knows Design. Special Delivery is an exhibition that transforms four truck interiors into site-specific installations; the trucks are accompanied by a special installation at the Fender Bender IIDEX closing party at the Gladstone Hotel. Films by Design is an architecture and design film series, extending the programming of this year’s Architecture Keynote speakers. The Architecture Keynote is moderated by Ian Chodikoff, architect and editor of Canadian Architect magazine. It brings together three of the world’s leading practitioners of socially sustainable architecture to relate their experiences in both the nonprofit and private sectors: Janna Levitt, principal of Toronto-based Levitt Goodman Architects; Michael

Murphy, founding partner and executive director of Boston’s MASS Design Group; and John Peterson, founder and president of U.S. nonprofit Public Architecture, as well as principal of San Franciscobased Peterson Architects. Three other keynotes are part of the IIDEX program: Design, Lighting and Hospitality. Delivering the Design Keynote is Patrick Norguet of

Welcome Hospitality designer Adam D. Tihany will chat with enRoute editor-in-chief Ilana Weitzman.

Paris-based studio Norguet Design. One of France’s most renowned and prolific designers, Norguet will explore his industrial design process – informed by the ateliers, artisans and mass producers he has worked with – and how it has evolved into the creation of interior design projects that smartly integrate his furnishings. Delivering the lighting Keynote is Will Hastings, senior show lighting designer of Walt Disney Imagineering. Holding an enviable post with one of the world’s most innovative entertainment organizations, Hastings will explore the role of lighting designer as storyteller and, using a variety of past projects as case studies, demonstrate a theatrical approach to architectural lighting. Ad_apples_3x5_PRESS.pdf

the Hospitality Keynote takes the form of a conversation between Adam D. tihany of tihany Design, and Ilana Weitzman, editor-in-chief of enRoute magazine. During the talk, tihany – widely regarded as one of the world’s preeminent hospitality designers – will discuss his design process and his philosophy that every space should tell a unique story. All this plus a full roster of award ceremonies and exhibits; various initiatives from Moleskine Canada; the return of sWIPE Books + Objects, Canada’s premier design bookstore – and much more. Held at toronto’s Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, IIDEX/NeoCon Canada runs sept. 20-21. For more information, visit iidexneocon.com. 10/8/09

FyI In the first part of our fastfood trilogy (“good to go”), concerning the urban Eatery at the toronto Eaton Centre, we neglected to mention pertinent information. the prime consultant responsible for the $120-million renovation of the Eaton Centre, along with the $25-million urban Eatery, was Queen’s Quay Architects International Inc. (Q2). this involved exhaustive field analysis of the site; detailed design development; technical documents; contract administration; and full supervision of both projects, including the responsible supervision of all engineering and specialty consultants.

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Back to the living The Cannonball Pendant light (left) incorporates old lighting shades. The BMO marble table (opposite right, with detail above), features Carrara marble straight from the Bank of Montreal Building refurbishment project in Toronto. The Catherine table lamp (opposite, left), has a brass body and a base of BMO Carrara marble.

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“O” is for… …all things Office, at Orgatec, in October. —By Michael totzke

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“Welcome to the future of the office.” such is the motto – part invitation, part promise – of Orgatec, the exhibition held every two years at the sprawling Koelnmesse in Cologne. Anyone who has accepted the invitation will tell you the promise is more than fulfilled: Orgatec is unrivalled in the range of comprehensive solutions it presents from all areas relevant to the working space. using data from Orgatec 2010, exhibitor count is expected to surpass 600, hailing from 40 or so countries, spread out over a million square feet of space. the breakdown of product is as follows: office furniture, 60 per cent; lounge and design furniture, 20 per cent; with the final 20 per cent coming from segments of lighting, ﬂooring, acoustics and AV technology. High-profile exhibitors include Haworth, Interstuhl, Vitra, Wilkhaun and Walter Knoll. taking all this in will be 60,000 visitors from all around the world (about 50 per cent of the total from abroad, from 110 countries). 16 CANADIAN INTERIORS july/August 2012

three “competence centres” cover the areas of lighting, acoustics and AV technology. the lighting Competence Centre features such exhibitors as Artemide, Belux, tobias grau and Waldmann. A special exhibition from Bartenbach lichtlabor, called the Office as a World of light, highlights innovations in the fields of daylight; lEDs; light and health; and light and materials. the Acoustics Competence Centre is a meeting point for all those who deal with the issue of acoustics in the office. the Competence Centre Architecture & Media technology includes video conferencing, multimedia systems, large-screen-tV presentations, wireless date transmission, and more. three special supporting programs – Orgatec Boulevard, International trend Forum and Insight Cologne – are bound to be crowd-pleasers. Orgatec Boulevard, in a “return engagement,” offers an ideal place to network, with its many nature-based lounges and communication zones; the theme of the boulevard in 2012 is Modern

Working spaces. International trend Forum gathers top-ranking experts around the globe from the fields of architecture, planning, consulting and user companies. to discuss trends and present best-practise examples form the office working world. Insight Cologne – a.k.a Orgatec Night of Office and Architecture – throws open the doors to 15 offices and facilities in the city’s municipal areas to the public; a shuttle bus runs between all the stops. the 15 participants fall under three different categories: new office concepts and architecture trends; sustainably developed offices and buildings; and expertly revitalized buildings. Part of the pleasure mixed with the business of Orgatec is to be had exploring charming, historical, low-key Cologne in the mild month of October. Orgatec runs at Cologne’s Koelnmesse from Oct. 23 to 27. c I

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Calming effect Going for the greys at the hectic High Point Market. —By Michael Totzke

High Point Market is not for the faint of heart. Held for six days in April and six days in October – in the downtown showroom district of the city of High Point, North Carolina – the trade-only market encompasses more than 10 million square feet of space in 180 buildings, home to 2,000 exhibitors. Picture miles of aisles of furniture and furnishings of every description. With a mere three days to cover what the High Point Market Planning Guide bills as “the next six days that matter,” and taking as a challenge a statement inside the guide (“You will not be able to see everything even if you stay the entire week”), I decided to take in as much as humanly possible. Aided by an extraordinarily efficient system of hotel, downtown and “go anywhere” shuttles, I did just that – feeling both exhilarated and exhausted at the end of each day. What saved me in the end from sensory overload were the calming shades of grey and silver my eye gravitated toward – a relief from riotous colour and pattern. In the following pages I offer a selection of items that not only caught my attention but held on tight.

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something old, something new In a rural Ontario kitchen, sturdy old bones – the skeleton of a two-storey Victorian gristmill – surround a cutting-edge Bulthaup system. —By john Bentley Mays

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When architects Mary jo Hind and Fred Vermeulen decided to seek out a weekend retreat from their busy office – both work for the international design giant Perkins+Will – the Hamilton-area couple hoped to discover a spread graced with a rambling old barn they could make over into a home. One didn’t turn up. What they did locate, however, was a patch of rough, scenic terrain in southern Ontario’s Mulmur township, and, in Mennonite country near Cambridge, a freshly demolished two-storey gristmill from around 1850. Putting their two finds together, Hind and Vermeulen hauled the ponderous timber frame of the mill to the site they’d purchased in Mulmur, and then reassembled it. Next, they roofed the wooden skeleton and put up a few simple interior walls in the double-height volume, wisely leaving the mill’s gouged, battered beams, pillars and struts exposed and unbeautified. the exterior is faced with rough-cut barn boards. the result of these moves is a sturdy, lofty 2,400-square-foot block book-ended by two massive chimney stacks. But if its very plain mid-Victorian framework, wood wrapping and pitched roof help root the house in its rural surroundings, the finishes and innards are entirely contemporary. the open-plan ground floor, for example, is encased in tall glass walls that enable strong visual links between the interior and the rugged outdoors. then there’s the very large, modern kitchen – clearly the spiritual and social centre of the house. From the outset, Hind and Vermeulen knew the kitchen would have to be both a model of high efficiency and a generous gathering place for their family and numerous friends – a zone of creative cooking very close to the Ontario nature beyond the windows, and without anything that might obstruct the views. so they first worked out a general scheme, then recruited Richard Keyes, a designer with toronto’s Bulthaup studio, to help put meat on the bones of their plan. Instead of grouping elements around a central focus, in the usual manner, the planners of this Bulthaup b3 kitchen have distributed the areas of storage, food preparation, cooking and washing-up across four large, long units laid out parallel to one another. the liebherr refrigerator, the Miele ovens and the pantry occupy a tall, suspended cabinet at one end of the rectangular room. Next comes a

The very large, modern kitchen is clearly the spiritual and social centre of the house. Working with a designer from Toronto’s Bulthaup studio, the architect owners – who often entertain large groups of people – chose not to group elements of the Bulthap b3 kitchen around a central focus. Rather, they have distributed the areas of storage, food prepartion, cooking and washing-up across four large, long units laid out parallel to one another.

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The Liebherr refridgerator, the Miele ovens and the pantry occupy a tall, suspended cabinet at one end of the rectangular room. Next comes a freestanding island equipped with a Gaggenau cooktop; and then another island (with a sink), suitable for chopping, mixing and so forth. The final piece is a cabinet containing the Miele dishwasher and featuring a sink for cleaning delicate items.

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MADE IN ITALY Tetrix is the latest modular kitchen system from Scavolini, and it’s a beauty. Designed by influential British-born Michael Young, it involves rectangular modules measuring 36x60 cm, combined on horizontal axes to unconventional layouts that guarantee complete customization. (The name is a play on Tetris, the famous tile-matching puzzle video game – all about “putting things together.”) The doors are created by applying sheets of glossy or matt tempered glass, in strong colours, flush fitted to the panel; the lack of handles adds to the sleek effect. And don’t fret: the glass is fingerprint-proof. A 100-per-cent made-in-Italy product. scavolini.com

1-DRINK IT UP Beverage Faucets is the latest line from luxury brand Brizo. These faucets can be used for filtered water or as a cold-water tap; they’re also compatible with reverse-osmosis filtration systems. Available in traditional or Euro styles. brizo.com

2-WELL PREPPED From U.S. company Native Trails, which specializes in artisan-crafted fixtures from sustainable materials (including recycled copper, reclaimed wood and bamboo), comes Cabana, an apron front sink ideal for a bar or prep area. Made of hand-hammered copper, it’s available in the finish of brushed nickel (shown) or the patina of antique copper. nativetrails.net

3-…BUT THE KITCHEN SINK The Atlantis Pro Series kitchen sink, from design and distribution company Artika, is hand-crafted of stainless steel. Featur-

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2-GE HOT At Toronto’s IDS this past January, GE Café introduced its 30-inch Built-in Gas Cooktop to the country. Features abound: a unique three-in-one burner; a deeprecessed cooktop (a high lip around the perimeter and burners helps to contain spills and allow for easy cleanup; a large non-stick griddle and griddle function (the latter links two burners to ensure identical heat); and LED backlit knobs of heavy

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3-GE COLD The GE Monogram 30-inch Refrigerator is the first HFC-free refrigerator in Canada. Its flush-mount design can be installed in inset cabinets, allowing it to vanish from sight. Flexibility is paramount: as well as featuring a traditional fresh food compartment and freezer drawer with icemaker, it also includes a third drawer, which can easily convert to one of three options – a refrigerator, freezer or wine reserve. ge.com/ca 4-WELL SEASONED For Alessi, legendary German industrial designer Richard Sapper has created Tonga, an electric salt, pepper and spice mill. With its tapered shape and slightly inclined vertical axis, Tonga brings to mind the Milan-based designer’s famous Todo giant grater (also for Alessi) of 2007. Made of thermoplastic resin, available in black or white. alessi.com JULY/AUGUST 2012 CANADIAN INTERIORS 35

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Touch & go With Quebec City’s Restaurant Ô 6ième sens, Amiot Bergeron Architectes faced an interesting challenge: how to develop a design to suit a visually impaired waiting staff. —By Rhys Phillips

Right this way Waiters pick up their orders at a kitchen window at one end of a segregated serving alley, which runs the length of the restaurant’s lit section. A cross “street” cuts left just past the kitchen, providing service access to a room that offers dining in absolute darkness.

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When I first met the influential Finnish architect and architectural theorist Juhani Pallasmaa in 1995, he expressed his dislike of automatic door openers because they stripped away the tactile engagement of a building offered by the door handle. It was a comment that immediately resonated as I had only recently visited Alvar Aalto’s delightful Säynätsalo Town Hall (1951) just outside Jyväskylä, Finland. Aalto’s original, hand-forged metal door handles wrapped in a tight weave of rawhide strips provided just the kind of affirming relationship of which Pallasmaa spoke. I had also recently toured the remarkable new (1987) headquarters of Amsterdam’s Nederlandsche Middenstandsback (now ING), for which architect Ton Alberts had designed a 70-foot-long bronze stair rail pitted with linked “pools” through

which a stream of water ran. Thus, as you ascended or descended the staircase, your fingers could trail though the cool water, their tips gently messaged by the rough base of the stream bed. Both Aalto’s door handles and Alberts’ stair rail produce moments of soothing haptic sensations, defined by Nancy Gesimondo and Jim Postell in their recent book Materiality and Interior Construction as the “physical and phenomenological experience of touching and interacting with materials, particularly experienced through the hands and feet.” The significance of the tactile experience takes on a more functional role at Quebec City’s Restaurant Ô 6ième sens (a.k.a Restaurant dans le noir), designed by the local firm of Amiot Bergeron Architectes. It

is not just that the restaurant features gourmet dining in absolute darkness, albeit augmented with a lit section that serves as both an after-dinner drinks and conversation lounge and a budget-conscious New York–style bistro during lunch. In addition, all 10 members of the serving staff for both components of the restaurant are blind graduates of the city’s Capital Hotel School. Although owned by partners Jean-François Lessard, Patrick Vézina and Gaétan Paquet, Ô 6ième sens (“sixth sense”) was established with the assistance of two not-for-profit foundations that receive 10 per cent of profits: MIRA, providing guide dogs for the sight impaired; and Caecitas, a job-creation investment organization for what is one of Canada’s most severely employment-disadvantaged groups.

Eat, drink and be merry Along one side of the serving alley stretches the patronsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tables; along the other, a fully computerized bar allows one of the partners, who is blind, to tend bar. Splashes of green, plus media screens with nature videos, signal an environmental theme.

Of course, the sixth sense is most often defined as keen intuition, as perception achieved without the five physical senses of which touch is one. But for the waiters to function efficiently, touch along with spatial predictability is crucial. In the 50-seat dark room, explains principal Louise Amiot during our interview, the layout had to be simple and rigorously orthogonal; while in the lit space a carefully constructed “linear landscape” unobtrusively separating clients from staff was required. Not incidentally, the idea of a contoured landscape came easily to the partners, who prefer mass and volume to light transparency and have completed over 15 parks for Ville de Beauport. The key to meeting the unique challenge posed by the staff’s lack of sight is a dedicated “service alley” that cleaves straight through the elongated space of the restaurant’s lit section. Along one side of this working runway, separated by a metre-high wall, are the client tables; along the front section of the opposite side, a steel I-beam–framed bar stretches. Toward 44 CANADIAN INTERIORS july/August 2012

the back end of the bar and behind a perpendicular cross “street” running to the dark room is an open window to the kitchen through which orders are received. While braille numbering on the low wall guides servers to their tables, the primary use of texture is found in the flooring: it is the change in floor materials signals to staff where they are. The serving lane is epoxied concrete with the exception of the bar work area, which is signaled by Amtigo’s Mirra metallic vinyl tiles with a faux metal plate relief. (The bar is computerized, which permits co-owner Vézina, who is himself blind, to serve as the bartender.) The same textured tiles are used to delineate the cross street that penetrates the dark room while carpeting indicates service lanes in this area of the restaurant. By no means, however, have the architects neglected the visual senses of the overwhelming majority of sighted clients who frequent the restaurant. Despite the proverbial parsimonious budget, the lit component, says Amiot, is intended as a sensual mix of found industrial chic and

simple but bold gestures. The latter includes an imposing, inclined plane of grey, wood-grained concrete panels dominating one entire wall, and a long, canted white panel suspended in the otherwise open ceiling that helps define the seating area. Against a colour datum of black and white, bright green is splashed about on smaller walls and on the upholstered banquettes. The intended environmental significance of green is made explicit by the nature videos streamed on a line of screens high on one wall. Rough, bleached wood roundels act as coffee and end tables in the vibrantly red-carpeted rear lounge. But what will probably remain in most visitors’ consciousness in this increasingly dog-centric society is the lounge-off-thelounge. Behind mirrored glass, patrons can see the staff’s guide dogs comfortably, and patiently, waiting for their masters to complete their shifts. c I

Opposite As the patrons are primarily sighted, the lit space is rich in colour and visible texture. Green walls, red carpet and chairs, a rotating art gallery and bleachedwood roundels work off a colour datum of black and white. Right Discrete markings on the low wall along the serving alley signal specific table locations to the waiters, while changes in flooring texture mark different functional areas. Below A mirror window allows lounge patrons a glimpse of the staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guide dogs, as they wait partiently and without distraction during work shifts.

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FLOS SHOWROOM LightForm launched its Toronto showroom, and Flos’s first Canadian flagship, in Toronto’s west end. 1—Posing near a Baccarat crystal chandelier: LightForm founder Richard Assaly, based in Edmonton, and communications manager Jennifer Chiu (Vancouver); and Alice Iacurci, Canada sales rep, Baccarat. 2—Lightform’s Traevor Birchall, customer service manager; James McDonough, account exec; Matt Davis, national sales manager (Vancouver); and Jeff Sa, shipping and receiving. 3—Carla Gusek, account exec, LightForm; visual-merchandise designer Jentry Chin, who curated the space; and Anne Vos of furniture and lighting supplier Super Orange.

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DIAMOND SCHMITT SUMMER SOLSTICE In celebration of the longest day, the Summer Solstice Party, a venerable Diamond and Schmitt Architects (DSA) institution, draws a lively, diverse crowd of designers, clients, and movers and shakers to Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works. 1—Sonja Bata, founder and chair, and John Fox, president and CEO, Batawa Development Corporation, which is transforming the former Bata shoes company town, on the shores of the Trent River in southeastern Ontario, into a new family-friendly community. 2—Brian McClean, associate managing principal, HDR Architecture; Antra Roze, associate, DSA; Cynthia Webb, VP, leadership gifts, and Marian Walsh, CEO, Bridgepoint Health Foundation; John King, executive VP, hospital services and chief administrative officer, St. Michael’s Hospital; Neil Barrows, senior project manager, Bridgepoint Hospital redevelopment, PCL Constructors. 3—Former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson, clad in her customary Issey Miyake; DSA founding partner Jack Diamond; Barbara of the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundation, patron of the new, DSA-designed Keenan Research Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital; and Richard Harvey, finance director, Rogers Communications. 4—Canadian Interiors associate editor Leslie C. Smith; Christine Mushka, project editor, “Report on Business,” The Globe and Mail; and Angela Kryhul, Kryhul Media Group.

AVENUE ROAD TAKES MANHATTAN During New York Design Week this past May, Stephan Weishaupt, owner and president of Toronto-based Avenue Road, unveiled the shop’s new NY showroom – with 400+ glittering guests in attendance. Avenue Road New York is located in the city’s historic Flower District, on 28th Street between 6th and 7th avenues. (Photos by Justin Violini) 1—Designer Simone Coste; Michael Barr, Yabu Pushelberg marketing director; and photographer Chiun-Kai Shih. 2—Designer Mazen El-Abdallah; Sari Mandel, New York art consultant; Elena Soboleva of Jack Shainman Gallery; and Troy Seidman, owner of Caviar20. 3—Advertising executive Lorenzo Martone; George Yabu of Yabu Pushelberg; Avenue Road “main man” Stephan Weishaupt; Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg; Corrine Huard, Yabu Pushelberg marketing manager.

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