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26 A PALETTE’S PALATE A Montréal restaurant brings urban street art in from the cold. By Rhys Phillips
30 A TOUCH OF DESSERT HEAVEN Light and surfaces are the key ingredients for an allergy-free bakery. By Rhys Phillips
32 GROWING UNDERGROUND Commercial cultivation mirrors, fluorescent lighting and plenty of greenery juice up a shop’s underground design. By Leslie C. Smith
34 THE BIG SMOKE Toronto’s old nickname could easily be repurposed, thanks to the new cannabis culture. By Leslie C. Smith
36 RAISE A GLASS Campari Canada’s newly designed workspace is infused with components of the group’s brand history. By Peter Sobchak
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11 CAUGHT OUR EYE 14 SEEN Highlights and insights from Maison & Objet Americas in Miami, and Salone del Mobile 2016 in Milan. 22 THE GOODS These products can elevate the kitchen beyond functional and towards sublime. 40 SCENE 42 OVER & OUT British Columbian design team grows furniture from mushrooms. COVER – Ê.a.t (Être avec toi) blurs the boundaries of art access by offering patrons art right on their table. Halfway between a gallery and a restaurant, the pieces become furniture and waiters become artistic mediators. Photo by Stéphane Brügger.
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Canada Olympic House The Canadian Olympic Committee has partnered with Toronto-based Yabu Pushelberg to create the Canada Olympic House (COH) for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This marks the first time ever that a COH will be designed by a Canadian firm.
Inside the 2016 Canadian International AutoShow This past February, the auto industry’s biggest names rolled out their newest models for the CIAS. From classic leather interiors to unexpected pops of colour, the 2016 and 2017 models sparkled.
Clinique D diaphane To meet the needs of clients who deal with eczema, psoriasis, hives and other skin conditions linked to stress, a dermatology clinic in Laval welcomes patients in a comforting atmosphere.
Nook Residence Located in the Eastern Townships in Quebec, the Nook Residence sits in continuity with the landscape in which it is part. Turning its back to the street, it offers a blind facade that encourages discovery and piques curiosity.
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We tend to spend our happiest moments around a table. It is the focal point for cozy gatherings and intimate conversations among family and friends. Dreams are expressed, plans debated, secrets revealed. And this happens at tables both in our homes and out at restaurants and bars. Without doubt food has become a major focal point in many parts of our lives, and interior design has been reacting to it. A good example is how at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan this past April, a considerable proportion of the exhibitions are involved in food one way or another. But designers aren’t necessarily approaching all food spaces in the same ways. - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------In modern residential design, kitchens are no longer merely “a room in which food is cooked” (as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary puts it), and instead the space around which home life revolves. High-end kitchen systems companies like Bulthaup and Scavolini have completely eliminated the pretense of a boundary between kitchen and living areas, and are now presenting systems based on the idea of
creating a kitchen that is truly the hub of the home. In designing Foodshelf, one of Scavolini’s most popular offerings last year, designer and wunderkind Ora-ïto strove, in his own words, “to give continuity to the home’s aesthetics, which can be found in the living room, the dining room and, why not, even other domestic environments.” - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------In these new designs, the living room enters the kitchen, influencing it not only through compositional patterns and materials, but also stuff: TVs, armchairs, bookshelves and cabinets containing objects d’art instead of cooking utensils are now commonplace. - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------But in terms of restaurant design, the focus is still on creating “experiences” that are different from our typical day-to-day ones. Exposed brick walls, raw steel panels, and decorative metal ceiling tiles are very popular because they bring out a sense of antiquity and rustic charm, but certainly not ones we recall from our home lives. Instead, designers are creating unique eating spaces whose purpose is to take us out of our normal experiences and into decidedly different ones: a sports bar that resembles a locker room; an Asian seafood joint that feels like a fish market; a resto evokes an avant-garde art gallery; or a bakery that feels like you stepped into a cupcake (these last two are featured in this issue). While we all ingest food the same way, we don’t experience it the same way, and maybe one day my kitchen will feel like a Roman café background set in a Fellini film, but I’m not sure I’ll ever want my local canteen to imitate a romper room. - - - - -----------------------------------------•
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A Cool Drink Australian Jesse Leeworthy’s new flat and re-useable memobottle is an attempt to wean us off single-use, clunky water bottles and instead think stylish sustainability. Its shape mimics the A5 and A6 international paper sizes; is made from a durable BPA-free cradle-tocradle certified plastic; and won gold in the A’ International Design Award & Competition. www.memobottle.com
Living in Geometry For Paris-based designer Giuseppe Bessero Belti, plants are his muse, and creating a dialogue between the natural and human world is his goal. His newest piece, called Geometrica, is an aluminium rhomboidal structure with a frontal cutaway revealing a soft interior with a flower at the centre. By lightly touching the inner surface, a pulse can be felt similar to an arterial heart rate, the beat increasing or decreasing depending on the amount of water absorbed by the flower. www.gbessero.com
Cop a squat A new line of ottomans and pouf seating from Keilhauer was getting a lot of attention at NeoCon in Chicago this June. Designed by Ayako Takase and Cutter Hutton from Observatory studio and dubbed “Doko,” the Japanese word for “where,” the new seating was specifically created to foster informal gatherings. www.keilhauer.com
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Sara Bond | Camus Collection Spanish stalwart Camus Collection was at the show, showcasing sculptural furniture pieces inspired by natural elements and organic shapes. Their signature hand-crafted Sara Bond walnut chair with upholstered square seat is an exemplar, with curved back, legs and armrest combining flat, curved and slender elements in a sinuous, seductive form. www.camuscollection.com
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Grapy | GAN Designed by Kensaku Oshiro for GAN, the indoor brand of Spanish furniture company Gandiablasco, the Grapy was inspired “by an image of a farmer seated on a jute sack,” and is available in two different fabrics (canvas and velvet) and filled with polystyrene balls that adapt to body movement. www.gan-rugs.com
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Tagada | Gautier Studio Gautier Studio, an off-shoot of Montréal-based ADzif, was debuted at Maison & Objet Americas along with its all-new line of family-oriented furnishings and accessories. Created in collaboration with product collective mpgmb, the sleek designs mix raw wood with colourful graphics to both define and accent spaces ideal for little ones. www.gautierstudio.com
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Inside Out Clock | Polart This Mexican company makes a scene reinventing classic furniture pieces in polymer resins and bright neon colours, for example the Mary Antoinette inspired clocks and bookcases, which have been completely inverted using an enormous mold and then hand worked to achieve unusually elegant detail. www.polartdesigns.com
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Bombom CB | Fenabel The Portuguese furniture brand Fenabel brought several of its chair lines to Miami, the most-eye-catching of which was the robust yet fluid Bombom CB armchair, designed by Studio Area44. www.fenabel.pt
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The Bond | Morada The Miami-based haute boutique may cite Italy’s pret-a-porter fashion industry as inspiration for this dramatic armchair, but with straps of buckled leather and a name like this, there certainly seem to be other unmistakable muses at work, too. www.morada-furniture.com
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Manta | ibride The Manta outdoor seat by French outfit ibride (say the word “hybrid” but with a Parisian lilt) is a subtle work of line and curves evoking louvers in the summertime. Designed by Rachel and Benoît Convers, it is constructed of high pressure laminate, built like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle, is nearly weightless and comes in six colours. www.ibride.fr
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Blau | Gandiablasco The new Blau collection exudes a cool Mediterranean lifestyle that Gandiablasco has always been known for, and is perfectly at home in South Beach. Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, all the different pieces, from the chairs to the artificial tree, utilize extruded aluminium profiles that change appearance depending on what angle it is viewed from, thanks to the contrast created between the straight lines and the curves combined within its structure. www.gandiablasco.com
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(Photo by Takumi Ota) #2 Rational | FLOO (Salone del Mobile – EuroCucina) A simple, minimalistic, geometrical kitchen design by Karim Rashid, the concept features a continuous radius detail that also functions as a handle. The round shapes are supported by strong, mono-block storage elements with a clean and seamless look, seemingly continuing from counter to floor. Materials for the door fronts can be either DuPont Corian or Rational’s soft lacquered range in a multitude of available colours. www.rational.de
#3 Dolce Stil Novo | Smeg (Salone del Mobile – EuroCucina) In the new line of Smeg home appliances the gas burners produce a single vertical blade of fire, which guarantees maximum yield as all the heat is transferred perpendicularly to the pan. The stainless steel grates are covered with a titanium treatment which increases their resistance. Available in 4/5/6 burner versions, the hob grates come with creative design cues taken from nature, such as birds, butterflies, leaves and fruit. www.smegusa.com
#4 Nami | kreoo (Salone del Mobile - Salone Internazionale del Bagno) Nami, which means “wave” in Japanese, is an oval washbasin whose sinuosity is reminiscent of a cloth’s drapery. Manipulated with sculptural skill, the marble creates soft waves on the outer edge, referencing the monumental drapery of the Virgin’s dress in Michelangelo’s Pietà, where in the game of lights and shadows marble is presented as a light, sophisticated and precious material. www.kreoo.com
#5 Astep | Candela (5vie art+design) Designed by Francisco Gomez Paz for Astep, Candela represents both the oldest and the newest forms of illumination in a single product. A flame fueled by bioethanol generates its own electricity (a full tank lasts six hours), powering not just LED lights, but enabling you to charge a mobile device. Good for both indoors and outdoors, an internal battery that recharges whenever there is a flame means Candela can give life to your device even when powered-off.
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Magic and inspiration combined at Salone del Mobile, where futuristic products gleamed in Milan’s 500-year-old historic buildings. By Enrico G. Cleva
The last edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano 2016 reminded all attendees that Milan is not just a furniture town: here the widest significance of design is embraced, and the number of off-site circuits, design districts, events and temporary exhibitions in almost all of the most iconic buildings of the city — in areas like the Brera Design District, prototype-happy Ventura Lambrate and burgeoning 5vie art+design district — represent nurturing opportunities for creative minds and contributed to an immensely successful design week. - - -------------------------------------------------Two key themes emerged: one was the relationship between design and nature, with many of the best booths employing copious numbers of plants as a stage for the new furniture collections, coupled with colours, materials, or shapes inspired by the earth. A second important thread was the dichotomy between technology and tradition: designers now have opportunities to create products with incredible new technologies, yet still face the challenge of showing their creative efforts to a public not always ready for the most advanced solutions. - -------------------------------------------------•
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#6 Charleston Sofa | MOOOI (Tortona Design Week) The Charleston is a classic, elegant and comfortable sofa symbol...upturned entirely on its head in an almost vertical position. This design, by Marcel Wanders, turns an existing classic into a modern, disruptive concept. Mounted on a rotating metal pedestal it is a perfect lounge chair that creates a jaw-dropping space (beware: very high ceilings are needed!) www.moooi.com #7 Perch Light | MOOOI (Tortona Design Week) Is there anything more captivating than a bird perched on a branch singing, flirting and celebrating life? No, but there is something almost as elegant: this light turns a beautiful stereotype into a family of lights including table, floor, wall and suspended models. Designed by Umut Yamac, the folded paper and brass birds are free to swing when softly touched. www.moooi.com #8 Girgenti & Craklé | Baxter (Salone del Mobile) Girgenti and Craklé are Baxter’s first complete outdoor lines of furniture, both designed by Antonino Sciortino with clear nods to a 1970s aesthetic. The chairs, armchairs and accessories are made of tubular copper matched with hydro-repellent saddle leather. www.baxter.it
#9 Sciara | Paola Lenti Designed by Marella Ferrera, the Sciara side table base is made of stainless steel finished with a special galvanic treatment made by De Castelli exclusively for Paola Lenti, and the top consists of lava stone and glass tiles. www.paolalenti.it
#10 Eydo | LEMA (Salone del Mobile) A bold asymmetric fluidity defines the Eydo dormouse, designed by Francesco Rota. Inviting users to relax, it consists of a suspended structure in painted bronze and a seat and backrest volume that, recalling the lightness of a wing, envelopes and welcomes the body. www.lemamobili.com #11 MyEquilibria | Metalco Active (Brera Design District) The Brera Botanical Gardens displayed a high-tech, futuristic “tree” entirely dedicated to fitness. The Leopard Tree, designed by Vito di Bari, is a soaring seven metre central trunk with up to nine workout islands spread over 300 square metres at its base, where 30 people can train simultaneously. Its leaf designs are inspired by Voronoi diagrams, elegant arithmetic patterns based on nature. www.myequilibria.com
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The Cube | Laboratorio Mattoni Luca Mattoni, the design brains at Rome-based Laboratorio Mattoni, is known for turning outdoor kitchen units into pieces of sculpture. But his shiny new futuristic invention, The Cube, looks less at home in someone’s backyard and more at home in the galley of the Starship Enterprise. www.poltronafraumiami.net
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Neolith Steel Collection | TheSize With this new kitchen countertop collection, TheSize is aligning itself with the latest market trends for industrialinspired interiors. For example, the dark grey metallic and reflective tone of Steel Marengo is the perfect alternative to stainless steel, combining a metallic feel throughout the slab with the high-tech properties of sintered compact surfacing. www.neolith.com
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Align Spring Faucet | Moen It seems everyone is looking for kitchen faucets with an industrialinspired spring spout. But while commercial-grade options deliver on style, they often lack functional conveniences like maneuverability of the hose and spray wand. In response, Moen has engineered the new Align pre-rinse pulldown spring faucet for the residential market, mimicking the look of an industrial kitchen, but with the reach and flexibility required for residential use.
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Pro Grand Range | Thermador To celebrate a century in the market, Thermador has launched the 60-inch Pro Grand Range, a behemoth equipped with six Thermador Star Burners, and seemingly endless cooking combinations such as grille or griddle, steam or radiant oven, and custom hood inserts. www.Thermador.ca
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Shimau | Panasonic Panasonic Canada has partnered with Richelieu Hardware to bring Japanese-inspired storage and organization systems to the North American market. Shimau solutions (a Japanese term for thoughtfully storing items) have been designed for many parts of the house wherever dead space is found, for example in the kitchen with a new pull down cabinet system. www.panasonic.com
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DGC XXL | Miele Unveiled at the Interior Design Show in Toronto earlier this year, the Miele DGC XXL is an addition to the convection-steam oven family but features a larger cavity, M Touch, MultiSteam, over 200 MasterChef programs, a motorized lift panel, a roast probe and a PerfectClean cavity. And the name isn’t misleading: the XXL is the largest steam combination oven on the domestic appliance market.
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GE Café | GE Appliances Consumers have gotten used to getting cold water from their refrigerator door, so GE Appliances has taken the next logical step: hot liquid. And not just an obvious upgrade to a hot water dispenser, but now you can also brew a cup of coffee, right from the refrigerator door, thanks to the new GE Café with an integrated Keurig K-Cup brewing system.
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React | Pfister Pfister’s new React touch-free kitchen faucet activates when your hand or an object passes within its sensor range. The water temperature can be set, and reset, however many times you like and the faucet can still be controlled the old-fashioned way – with its handle. www.pfisterfaucets.com
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b1 | Bulthaup In essence a stripped down modular system, Bulthaup’s b1 line is available in island and workbench versions, and the countertop can be fitted with different functions: induction cooktop, water point with a sink made from hot-rolled stainless steel and food preparation modules in various materials such as wood, stone or stainless steel. The food preparation areas can be moved into any position, with free spaces created for storing tools and work utensils such as pots and pans.
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Flux Swing | Scavolini Extensive research and experimentation, beginning 10 years ago with the first Flux model, has brought Scavolini and Giugiaro Design to the new Flux Swing collection. From a stylistic perspective, the distinguishing features are the shaping of the doors, which are either linear or slanted, on the base units and joining elements. www.scavolini.com
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Sam Cronos | L’Ottocento Unveiled at Eurocucina during Salone del Mobile in April, the new Sam Cronos kitchen designed by architect Samuele Mazza for L’Ottocento sports a large central island complete with six burners connected to a futuristic air extraction system, and a doubleworkstation hob allowing two people to cook at the same time. www.lottocento.it
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GranBaristo Avanti | Saeco Fully automatic espresso machines are nothing new. But fully connected? If you are yearning to orchestrate your next caffeinated beverage from your tablet, Saeco designed the GranBaristo Avanti with you in mind. Download the app, secure a connection via Bluetooth 4.0 and choose from 18 drink options (yes, the buttons on the machine still work, too). www.philips.com
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A Montréal restaurant brings urban street art in from the cold Graffiti art can be a difficult sell. For many, the term is simply an oxymoron for visual vandalism, at best a lazy if annoying lashing out of juvenile angst, at worst a beggaring of the quality of the built environment at everyone else’s expense. For others it represents an invigorating forum for the disenfranchised to challenge complacent society in general or its socially bowdlerized art industry in particular. ---------------------------------------------------------Such practitioners as the U.K.’s enigmatic Banksy, whose stenciled graphics are often simultaneously biting satire, amusing contradictions and even imbued with gently whimsical twists, has proven ironically quite commercial. Cities like Toronto have sanctioned “curated” graffiti and sometimes even commission works. Before Banksy, New York’s Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work now sells in the double digit millions, galvanized appreciation of chaotic graffiti infused with a Black/Latino sensibility. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------Montréal’s recently revitalized W-Hotel restaurant, Être avec toi (Ê.a.t.) relies heavily on Basquiat-like graffiti art applied directly to wall surfaces but mixed with some 120 canvas-based paintings, some from artists who have transitioned from street to gallery. But rather than a set piece, the restaurant is about evolving over time. “We opted for a project that was less about architecture and more about art and events,” says Jean Pelland, principal at Montréal-based Sid Lee Architecture. “We wanted to create an event space rather than a design driven environment.” - ----------------------------------------------------------
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A collaboration with MASSIVart, a creative brand agency under Arthur Gaillard’s curatorial direction, the restaurant’s art is both transient (the “graffiti” may disappear after a year as the restaurant’s design evolves) and emerging. With many unpainted canvases installed in the dining areas, street artists such as Alan Ganev, Jason Botkin, Bonar and Labrona have been producing new paintings while patrons dine. At writing, 25 per cent of the canvases remain blank. Even Ê.a.t’s music harmonizes with the powerful visuals with DJs crafting unique soundtracks played while artists work and clients dine. To round it off, waiters, trained to act as “artistic mediators” answering questions about the artistic content, are dressed by Montréal fashion designer Travis Taddeo. - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------While much of the restaurant’s original form was retained, highly textured surfaces such as oyster shell finishes on columns were stripped back, some walls were removed with others painted white and windows were uncovered. It was a process of creating what Pelland calls a “white out canvas space.” To reflect Montréal’s edgy culture with its deeply ingrained symbols and countless murals, artists WIA (aka Whatisadams) and Stikki Peaches (Montréal’s own anonymous Banksy) collaborated to create mixed media collages applied directly to the wall surfaces. Their contributions rework some of their best known images including both iconic hockey greats and “hockey hooligans” (Stikki), Pure Maple Sizzurp Cans (WIA) and street art portraits of famous composers (Stikki). Every wall from the entrance right up and including the bars is packed with these two artists. Some may be temporary; others may be “redeployed” into other buildings. ---------------------------------------------------------Illustrator and artist Jason Wasserman has inscribed large communal tables with cheeky images inspired by comic books, fantasy art and vintage illustration. Jason Cantoro’s curving “colour fields” embracing the restaurant’s booths may consist of dynamic printed shards of colour but they provide an almost restful counterpoint to the creative chaos of the layered urban street art. - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------“The era of dark dining is shifting toward a more intellectual approach,” concludes Pellard. “[Ê.a.t.] may be temporary; but it is not just an ephemeral stopgap, it is an unfolding event.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------• CANADIAN INTERIORS 7/8 2016
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Left: Stikki Peaches, collaborating with fellow artist WIA (AKA Whatisadams), has recreated his well-known gritty street art image of the “hockey Hooligan” facing off across from a Mozart-cum-classicalcomposer “fan.” Separating the two is a long table on which illustrator and artist Jason Wasserman has inscribed images inspired by comic books, fantasy art and vintage illustration. Below: Stikki Peaches and WIA’s graffiti images, such as this Darth Vader rift on a column, are seen as part of an unfolding process and thus some may survive while others will disappear over time.
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Light and surfaces are the key ingredients for an allergy-free bakery
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Adversity, goes the time honoured adage, is the mother of invention. Montréal’s Pâtisserie Petit Lapin is a literal case in point. When Viviane Nguyen found she could not buy a cake for her son’s first birthday because of his severe allergies, she set to work researching alternatives. The result is a unique, 342-sq.-ft. bakery and retail shop tucked into a Westmount basement that focuses on gluten and lactose-free pastries devoid of 10 core food allergens. - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Nguyen’s vision, says architect Maxime Moreau of Architecture Open Form, was something simple and minimalist with only touches of the pastels that form part of her branding. The real challenge they both recognized was to create an effective “billboard on the street,” a noticeable gesture to pull clients into the narrow, albeit double height, six-foot wide entrance hallway leading down to the shop. - - -------------------------------------------------His response is a series of differently textured surfaces unified by their brilliant white that includes porcelain tile floors, white quartz counters and, most importantly, ruffled surfaces using a material CANADIAN INTERIORS 7/8 2016
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called Softwall. Produced by Vancouver’s Molo Design, this translucent, accordion-like material made from 100 per cent recyclable polyethylene has been carefully “squeezed” to form the recognizable undulations of a cupcake’s iconic parchment liner. While used vertically, particularly as a skirt for the two-tiered display shelving lining one side of the entrance hallway, it also provides an undulating, crenelated ceiling ensuring a wave-like sense of movement leading through and downwards to the lower level shop. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The interior structure of Softwall allows LED strip lighting to be infused throughout the material. This, says Moreau, generates a pure white hue that “sculpts the light to reveal the delicate structure of the folds... creating an ethereal seamlessness.” The pastry shop’s glowing whiteness and its lack of sharp surface contrasts (save for a narrow strip of exposed raw stone foundation) generates an otherworldly placelessness. - - - - -------------------------------------------------Ah, the divine heavenliness of a fine pastry. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•
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Left: To introduce and seduce patrons into its narrow, street-level entrance, Petit Lapin lines one side with a simple two-level showcase for its allergy-free products. Skirts of Softwall, a pleated material of translucent, 100 per cent recyclable polyethylene are explicitly intended to suggest classic cupcake liners. Insert: A wave or a tumble of cumulous clouds, crafted from Softwall and infused with LED lights, undulates down the white tiled stairs to draw customers into the bakery’s small basement shop. This Page: White tiles, white Softwall, white counters and only delicate splashes of pastel turquois give the shop an almost otherworldly ambience, countered only be a down-to-earth column of gritty stone foundation.
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Commercial cultivation mirrors, fluorescent lighting and plenty of greenery juice up a shop’s underground design By Leslie C. Smith Photography by Scott Norsworthy
Arguably the least successful pedestrian walkway in Toronto is the PATH, a labyrinthine maze of underground passages filled with retail boutiques that honeycombs the underside of the city’s business district. Meant to make shopping and foot traffic fun, it is instead a vaguely depressing place, hard to navigate, often dimly lit, and most frequently used simply to get from Point A to Point B whenever bad weather dictates. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Into this arid, uncompromising milieu, the Toronto design firm of Kilogram Studio has injected a note of realistic relief, constructing a mini-oasis for the customers of its client, Greenhouse Juice Company. Or perhaps a mini-greenhouse offers better imagery, since the 950-sq.-ft. space lends the bulk of its frontage to two huge, mirrored terraria, alive with plants, flanking either side of the entry. Passage through to a considerably smaller, 352-sq.-ft. triangular interior (punctuated at its tip with yet another terrarium) is delineated by raised cedar-wood planters. Packed with leafy greens and backed by faux farm-fencing, these funnel people through to the pre-packaged bottle fridge or to the coldpressed organic juice bar. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------
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Above left: Strategic positioning of oneand two-way mirrors expands the perception of Greenhouse Juice Company’s retail space, as well as its free-floating, neon logos. Above: Warm cedar-wood elements, a plethora of plant life, and the intimation of “farm fresh” as suggested by a snaked fence invite visitors into the shop’s interior to sample its colourful organic wares. Right: A light colour palette, white tiles, and clean fluorescents can make one forget for a moment that this is all situated in an underground passageway.
Cleverly called Grow-Op, the juice bar’s interior is lined with prefabricated cedar that not only saved valuable construction time but can be rearranged, or disassembled and relocated, according to the whims of the retail market. The soft yellow wood, like the greenery, offers a warm contrast to the rather cold materials – stone, glass and terrazzo flooring – used throughout the rest of the commercial concourse. - - -------------------------------------------------Kilogram Studio principal Kfir Gluzberg has also cunningly referenced U.S. artist Phillip K. Smith’s work Lucid Stead through the positioning of various mirrored elements within the site to “reflect the flora and extend perception of the depth of the space.” Mirrors are spaced between the stacked cedar blocks at the back of the bar and in the terraria supports; the terraria themselves are fitted with twoway mirrors that both reflect and extend the small shop’s sensation of infinite perspective. Floating inside each of these boxes is the Greenhouse logo, a 3-D line drawing of a house rendered in white neon. -------------------------------------------------The greenhouse-within-a-greenhouse-within-a-Greenhouse concept is so clever that it appears Kilogram Studio has, at last, given Torontonians a legitimate reason to follow the PATH. - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•
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Toronto’s old nickname could easily be repurposed, thanks to the new cannabis culture By Leslie C. Smith Photography by Ben Rahn/A-Frame
Cannabis culture, like the humble coffee-shop, has evolved into unrecognizability over the past couple of decades. Across the continent, new laws are swiftly making marijuana usage as ubiquitous, brandconscious and gentrified as any Starbucks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Case in point: Tokyo Smoke Found, a head-shop-cum-café catering to upscale urbanites in Toronto’s artsy Queen Street West neighbourhood. Opened in late 2015, it is the first of a planned chain of outlets purveying espresso, baked goods, the occasional designer item and reefer-related accessories. Its real selling point, however, is style. Style good enough to make an impression on the hard-to-impress. Style soon enough to be parlayed into a brand name for designer grass (currently available only through government dispensaries) as well as a clothing line by high-end Québec designer Philippe Dubuc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Tokyo Smoke Found’s subtitle subtly references both its locale – a 330-sq.-ft. former storage garage wedged into space “found” between two converted warehouse buildings – and its “pop-up” nature – the insertion into this space of an 80-sq.-ft. shipping container sliced open to create inside and street-side coffee-bar counters. - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Steven Fong Architect, in collaboration with Tokyo Smoke’s founders, design entrepreneurs Lorne and Alan Gertner, has purposely riffed on
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the site’s gritty ancestry to generate décor gravitas. The garage’s rolldown corrugated door is still there, enlivened by a black-and-white mural by Brazilian street artist Alex Senna. Rusty propane-tank pendants by Toronto collective Fugitive Glue illuminate a central communal table; while against the west wall, two huge pontoon floats that had been abandoned in the garage now hang like artwork above a rack of metal display shelves closely illuminated by garage flood-lights. - - - - -------------------------------------------------Inside the café, polished concrete floors are overlaid with industrial plates whose painted yellow chevrons “direct” customer traffic. Outside, diagonal yellow lines indicate a no-parking zone, further stressed by a rim of rusting Corten steel planters surrounding patio tables and vintage Eames chairs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The irony at play on what “used to be” compared to “what is” should not be lost on Tokyo Smoke Found’s clientele. Back in the day, you’d buy your weed from some guy named Larry or Steve, and then duck into an alley to light up away from prying police eyes. Now that it’s relatively legal, you’re still in an alleyway, just one with lattes and boulangerie munchies and designer magazines. Adding to the irony is the fact that the alley is, for the moment, smoke-free – although that too could change in an Amsterdam minute. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•
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Far left: The gentrified head shop-café sits in a upcycled urban alley, its front patio reclaimed from a parking strip. Above: Interior and exterior bar counters were sliced into a shipping container, adding to the “found” industrial atmosphere. Left: Artful eclecticism, topped by sculpturally hung twin pontoons, surrounds the small interior’s communal table, while design publications and fancy baked goods share space with up-market rolling-paper machines and vaporizers.
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Campari Canada’s newly designed workspace is infused with components of the group’s brand history The familiar dark red apéritif has been a saloon staple for over a century and a half, enlivening the Negroni, Sanguinea and Americano of elbow-benders the world over. And that isn’t a euphemism: Campari is available in over 190 nations, and its parent company, Gruppo Campari, comprises 50 beverage brands that span spirits, the core business, as well as wines and soft drinks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------This global reach means a need for global offices, and when Campari fixed their gaze on Canada, the company wanted an office space that not only inspired and invigorated its working staff, but also projects the spirit of the company. Hence Toronto’s Liberty Village: a neighbourhood that is home to industrial, century-old buildings that have been retrofitted to accommodate the commercial needs of the city’s exploding creative enterprises. For Campari Canada’s new corporate offices, Toronto-based design firm I-V stepped in and skillfully overhauled an old black box film studio, devoid of windows, into a light-filled multipurpose space whose design touches are infused with references to the imagery and branding of Gruppo Campari products. - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Clockwise from bottom left: A visitor to the office must first pass through a compressed, dark reception area, similar to a nightclub’s cloakroom, adorned with simple Italian icons like a modified Vespa scooter, and the logos of the group’s brands. After passing reception, the centrepiece of the new office is a long bar, where events and tastings are held and staff gathers to socialize. Suspended above the bar are Ingo Maurer’s Campari Light pendants. Behind the bar is the open plan work space.
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Above Private spaces like management offices and meeting rooms bisect the cubic volume and are sheathed in low tech translucent polycarbonate sheets framed in ash wood. Nothing touches the outer walls: these are all freestanding structures. Opposite page Atop the offices and meeting rooms are breakout meeting and relaxation spaces, sitting roughly halfway between the 36-foot high space, and awash in natural light pouring in from overhead skylights.
The basic geometries and composition of the office space were largely inspired by several of Campari’s iconic advertising posters, particularly one from 1928 emblazoned with text that reads ‘He Distractedly Put the Bitter Campari on His Head’ and designed by Italian Futurist artist Fortunato Depero. Many of the space’s textural patterns and volumes, such as teal and navy rubber flooring, laser-cut ash plywood and white Corian finishes, were derived from the company’s brands. Featuring several communal spaces, the office aims to blend both work and play, with breakout/relaxing/play spaces resting atop freestanding architectural volumes that enclose meeting rooms and offices, which in effect creates a liminal zone that floats in the middle of the large open cube. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------With plans to leverage the space for intimate events and entertaining, a large free-standing bar serves as the centerpiece, showcasing each of the Group’s pillar brands including Aperol, Campari and Wild Turkey, SKYY Vodka, Carolans Irish Cream, Appleton Estate Rum, Espolòn CANADIAN INTERIORS 7/8 2016
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Tequila and Forty Creek Whisky (its Grimsby, Ontario-based Forty Creek Distillery location will continue to serve as the company’s production facility where whiskies are aged, blended and bottled. This location also provides office space to Human Resources and finance staff). ------------------------------------------------- “Our concept for Campari Canada was to capture ‘the spirit of the party.’ We wanted to create an environment that is rich in colour and bold in scale, while striking the perfect balance between offices that facilitated day-to-day operations and a space that allowed for events and informal gatherings to take place,” says Emil Teleki, design director at I-V. “The final design is a series of fully enclosed, semi-enclosed and open spaces divided by translucent walls and materials that embody the Campari history.” (Incidentally, speaking of history, vegans should rejoice: the dye used to produce the rich red colour in Gaspare Campari’s original recipe was taken from crushed cochineal insects; it’s now artificially coloured.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•
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Haworth’s University Avenue showroom hosted a launch party for the company’s new flagship task chair, Fern. With no hard outer frame, the chair has a central, spinal-curved lattice to provide back support.; the lattice’s shape evokes the proverbial office plant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------
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The Thompson Landry Gallery’s Cooperage Space in the historic Distillery District was the setting for Italia for Contract, a two-day exhibition and seminar series featuring the latest from Italian contract furniture companies Crassevig (seating), Fantoni (office furniture, pre-finished flooring and acoustic panels), Frag (leather furniture), Kenius (concrete), Molaro (windows and doors) and Moroso (furniture and accessories) in co-operation with IIDEXCanada. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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At the Weavers Art store and showroom, Custom rug designers Creative Matters launched their latest collections, Perennial and Arctic, including Crystallize, which was nominated for the 2016 Best Modern Design Superior award at carpet show Domotex in Hannover, Germany. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------
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B.C. design team grows furniture from mushrooms
By Leslie C. Smith
It’s hardly a surprise that grow-op ’shrooms are booming in British Columbia. What is surprising is what they’re being used for. Vancouver transdisciplinary design firm AFJD Studio, headed by UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture assistant professor, Joe Dahmen, and his life partner, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Canada Research Chair in Design and Technology at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, has recently installed mushroom-based seating in a public square at the heart of the UBC campus. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The seats — light-coloured, hollow blocks topped with clear acrylic — are made from mulched-up alder sawdust and living oyster mushroom spores. Such so-called mycelium biocomposites (MB) boast the same properties as polystyrene foam; however, they are much healthier for the environment since they are capable of rapidly induced biodegradation into organism-friendly compost (unlike obdurate Styrofoam that could take up to a millennium to decompose). This über-green technology may soon be coming to a store near you — literally. Swedish retail giant Ikea has just inked a $10-million deal with a U.S. firm to provide it with MBCANADIAN INTERIORS 7/8 2016
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derived protective packaging. Beyond packing peanuts, the substance’s future points to several projected building trade applications, including featherweight acoustic panelling and core construction materials. -------------------------------------------------With the assistance of students and staff at UBC’s social ecological economic development studies (SEEDS) sustainability program, Dahmen and Frid-Jimenez jumped the major hurdle of extending the scale, and thus the utility, of mycelium biocomposite products. Given the risk of mould and bacteria contamination if the material exceeds a halfmetre in thickness, Dahmen developed a process for shaping it into hexagonal honeycombs. His Robert-the-Bruce moment arrived when he examined an old wasps’ nest found in the greenhouse deputed to house his project and made note of its chambers’ spatial efficiency and inherent strength. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The added bonus of the blocks’ hollow centres has to be watching the occasional delicious fungus sprout to fruition. - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•
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