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Discover the Stars of Our Design Scene Ones to Watch: Who Will Be Next Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winners?

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Texture and shine take center stage, with jewel-like accents amping up the glamour. Now more than ever, vintage shapes executed in modern materials look new and fresh. Velvets, linens, and leathers provide the all-important contrast of matte and gloss for a sophisticated overall look.

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MODERN GEOMETRY

Bold patterns and shapes executed in a brighter palette are anything but staid. The look is eclectic, with artisanal patterns and geometric shapes clashing—in a good way. Black and white temper the riot of colors and help anchor the space.

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GLOBAL ARTISTRY

Inspired by travel and adventure, the trend is a modern take on global patterns, fabrics, and crafts. It’s all in the mix. Embroidery, caning, animal hides, even macramé, give a handcrafted, organic feel to accessories. Soft pastels contrast with deep blues and greys. Ethnic accents complete the look.

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S E P T E M B E R 2 016 A L B E R TA // V O LU M E 42 // N U M B E R 7

DESIGN 25 // One to Watch

Victoria ceramicist Amanda Paddock gets creative with clay.

26 // Shopping

Space-age lighting, a pretty-in-pink armchair, art deco travel prints and more.

33 DESIGNERS OF THE YEAR 33 // The Winners

Introducing our 2016 Designers of the Year: the innovators, creators and dreamers who are making the West a beautiful and thoughtprovoking place to live.

67 // The Finalists

We were blown away by the quality of entries this year that came in from all across Western Canada—this short list spotlights the cream of the crop.

67 // The Judges

From local design icons to internationally renowned architects to the power players behind our fave design brands, this year’s judging panel brought the star power. 1 0 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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WL DESIGN WEEK 71 // Bold and Beautiful

Inside a Calgary home with a hit of natural warmth on the Modern Architecture and Design Society Home Tour.

FOOD 76 // A Room of One’s Own

Pilgrimme is worth the trip to the remote(ish) island it’s located on—and we’ve got the recipes to prove it.

PLUS 81 // Sources

Get the looks you see in these pages.

82 // Trade Secrets

How to design a basement that doesn’t look like a basement.

Cover: Ema Peter; DOTY: Carlo Ricci; Pilgrimme: Evaan Kheraj; MADS Home Tour: Lifeseven Photography

29 // Openings

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WL // EDITORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTE

Q& A This month we asked our contributors, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the farthest youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve travelled for a great meal? Car Ri i D rs tâ&#x20AC;Ť×&#x201D;â&#x20AC;Ź ar, Does Italy qualify? I usually go to see my family, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth its own trip. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old family restaurant near a monastery in the middle of a forest between Bologna and Florence: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a magical place that has survived time and brings me back to memories of happy times with deliciously prepared homemade tortelli, fiorentina and countless bottles of red wine!

A s ur So t NÂ , 61 Growing up in a rural QuĂŠbĂŠcois town has its perksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;accents, charisma, gorgeous scenery of lakes and car shedsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the food scene can sometimes be lacking. My family and I used to drive nine hours east to GaspĂŠ to enjoy Quebecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground and taste amazing seafood. I still try to go whenever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m back home.

Behind the Scenes Photographer Evaan Kheraj grabs a few scenic shots on the ferry ride home from Pilgrimme Restaurant. He and the team spent the day capturing many, many behind-the-scenes shots of the Galiano Island restaurant: story, page 76.

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DESIGN MATTERS

We hold great design close to our hearts here at Western Livingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;every issue shines a spotlight on progressive design in Western Canada, from beautiful homes to great new design-forward vacation spots to bold new restaurants. (Speaking of which, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss our spotlight on Pilgrimme on page 76: the sea-totable restaurant on tiny Galiano Island shared a few of their more, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say, challenging recipes with us this month. Daring cooks, this is your chance to shine!) But, for me, this issue is always a particular favourite. This is the ninth year of Western Livingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Designers of the Year awards: a year-long process that pairs up international judging panels (this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star-studded committees include design phenom Kelly Wearstler, furniture guru Antoine Roset and the always-fab Jonathan Adler) with the most talented designers in Western Canada. From hundreds of entries, just eight are chosen to be our Designers of the Year in their categoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; architecture, interiors, furniture, industrial, fashion and, new this year, the maker categoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with two emerging honourees in both architecture and interiors. The maker category is long overdue, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the product of enthusiastic lobbying from some talented people in the industry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance to highlight the now-booming culture of potters, ceramicists, leatherworkers and fibre artists who, until now, have fit like square pegs within the definitions of our traditional categories. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural winner, Cathy Terepocki, holds the maker torch well: youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find (and love) her whimsical designs on page 65. The day this issue lands on doorsteps and online at westernliving.ca is always a buzzy one. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing that unites the Western Canadian design community, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their support of one another, and I love seeing fellow designers cheer for their winning colleagues as soon as the awards are announced. You can take part, too: join in on the conversation on our website and on social media with the hashtag #wldoty, and tell us about your favourites.

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1. WIDE PLANK FLOORING

Director of Sales, Paul Rivington, explains that people are moving away from traditional 2-3” wide planks, in favour of 5-7” or even 12” wide hardwood planks. “It’s a European influence on style,” he says. “That old industrial look seen in factories is really coming back.”

2. BACK TO NATURALS

Rivington is glad to leave the dark hardwood ages behind. “Dark stained floors don’t accommodated most people’s lifestyles,” he explains. “They reveal every scratch, stain and speck of dirt so easily.” He calls lighter, even natural oaks and maples a responsible choice for homeowners. “They also pair easier with other décor,” he adds. “It’s better from both a practicality and style standpoint.”

3. ENGINEERED HARDWOOD

“The acceptance of engineered hardwood has grown in the last five years,” says Rivington. The more resistant product (4mm of oak, maple or hickory on top of a plywood core) doesn’t gap from humidity changes, adding stability to those stylish wide planks. “Our manufacturers only use the highest quality woods in the construction of their engineered cores,” he says. “And good quality engineered products can be refinished multiple times.”

4. INTEREST IN ORIGINS

Rivington has noticed a huge shift in consumers’ awareness and expectations of quality. “Recent media coverage has revealed that many overseas manufacturers don’t meet North American quality standards,” he explains. “Most customers want Canadian products, or very high quality European products—which is exactly what we carry.” Alberta Hardwood Flooring’s entire selection adheres to all Carb and VOC standards. To learn more about hardwood trends, visit Alberta Hardwood Flooring’s website (www.albertahardwood.com) or the Edmonton or Calgary showroom nearest you. Created by the Western Living advertising department in partnership with Alberta Hardwood Flooring

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ONE TO WATCH

Clay by Clay Amanda Paddock Ceramicist, Victoria

Breaking the Mould Paddock gets hands-on in her Victoria workshop.

“When I first started working with Morgan clay, my hands bled,” laughs Amanda Paddock, a Victoria-based ceramicist who has since developed some serious calluses in the process of crafting her collection of handmade tumblers, vases and pots. “It’s almost like massaging sandpaper.” Once fired, though, the clay takes on the look of heavy terracotta, its speckling visible through Paddock’s milky glazes or left exposed in geometric shapes and dot patterns. “I’m always inspired by where I live, the mountains, the ocean, the forest, the coastal landscapes, shapes and patterns in the world around me,” she says. “Having that feeling of calm is so important when I’m trying to make something that takes patience.” Up next: macramé hanging planters inspired by her mother’s own crafting and a line of new cups and mugs featuring the illustrations of artist Cate Webb. —Rosemary Poole

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A a’s Pi Mud Australia Water Jug $149, available at Provide, providehome.com

Made from Limoges porcelain, these gorgeous handmade water jugs appeal to the tactile among us: the stone-like surface becomes smooth over time as it’s handled. (One more reason to feature it on the dinner table.)

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Take Your Place

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These art deco prints ($299 each) of architectural icons from around the world (Berlin, Paris and London, to name a few of the feature cities) celebrate the love of both travel and design in one fell swoop. BoConcept, Calgary, boconcept.ca

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Round and Round

There’s something so pleasing about this perfectly round porcelain Cooee Design Ball vase (from $25) —a sleek and beautiful contrast against wild greenery. Kit, Calgary, kitinteriorobjects.com

Space Age

Foscarini’s White Noise suspension lamp ($3,907) is out of this world, shaped like a fl ying saucer and hand-sprayed on the underside with a dramatic interstellar graphic. Robert Sweep Homefurnishings, Calgary, robertsweep.com; M-Concept, Winnipeg, m-concept.ca

Ain’t No Mountain High

Made from salvaged wood, the angular Needle and Pine Double Peak Mountain shelf ($60) combines futuristic angles with natural vibes. Greater Goods, Calgary, greatergoodsco.ca

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Strike One

The graphic prints of these BelloPop matchboxes ($13) have us all fired up. (And inside, the fuchsia-tipped matches are pretty fun, too.) Plum Home and Design, Calgary, plumhomeanddesign.com

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CALGARY Shear Luxury Find chunky sweaters and drapey scarves perfect for rocking an effortlessly chic horseback-riding-on-themoors look, all made from ultra-luxe materials (including the rare vicuña fibre, sheared from a South American camel). Shop owner Claudia Wierzba handcrafts many of the designs herself. shearluxury.ca

EDMONTON The Prints and the Paper Though the main focus here is stationery and print goodies (you’ll find silkscreened prints of graphic band posters and vintage children’s book covers stocked alongside charming letterpress cards), there’s variety to be found in this 124th Street shop, with colourful patterned mugs, tote bags and printed pillows, too. facebook.com/ printsandthepaper

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VICTORIA Lore General Store This sliver of a shop opened quietly this spring, stocking vintage finds (discovered wall textiles, wicker chairs) and spare home goods by local suppliers (like Marita Manson ceramics, Libertine Fragrance and Hold and Carry totes), and hosting community-minded crafting workshops regularly—weaving night, anyone? loregeneralstore.com

VANCOUVER Örling and Wu The new South Granville shop is half the size of its sister location in Gastown and designed with a minimalistic Scandinavian look in mind, but it's still stocked with globally sourced pieces: string furniture from Sweden, Ikeuchi towels fromJapan, Void watches from Hong Kong and Tealeaves tea from Vancouver. orlingandwu.com

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DESIGNERS OF THE YEAR 2016 From the architect who pours the foundation himself, to the dress designer who’s influencing international wedding style, to the ceramicist who pairs nostalgia with modernist design, this year’s Designers of the Year are at the forefront of our dynamic design scene. You’re going to want to get to know them.

Check out videos of our winners at westernliving.ca

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INTERIORS

The Mainstay

Douglas Cridland may have been defining the Calgary design scene for four decades, but he maintains a secure spot on the cutting edge. B Y J A C Q U I E M O O R E // P O R T R A I T B Y N AT H A N E L S O N

To most visitors, the phrase “southwest corner of Alberta” will likely generate a few standard word assocations—with wind turbines and cattle usually mentioned first and second, respectively. “Beauty,” “elegance” and “Douglas Cridland” aren’t likely to make the top 20. Yet the geography around Pincher Creek, where our Interior Designer of the Year was born, provides enduring inspiration for his now-iconic palette. Cridland tried his damnedest to leave Alberta. He went to school in Utah (three semesters at BYU, one at Weber State) but wound up back in Calgary. Over the years he applied for, and was offered, design gigs in Toronto, Ottawa, Victoria and elsewhere, but “something about the Prairies always held me here,” he says. Nearly four decades into a robust interior-design career in Calgary, Cridland describes that “something” as—on an emotional level—“an energy, a particular beauty” and “an open, non-judgmental” vibe he hasn’t felt anywhere else. Professionally speaking, it’s about the vastness, the light on the Prairies: qualities that have informed his 3 4 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

Artful Composition Cridland’s own downtown Calgary condo is the perfect example of his work: moody and masculine, but with plenty of warmth and luxury. It’s a space thoughtfully designed to showcase his extensive art collection—not overly flashy, but still a showstopper.

“Wherever I go,” says Interior Designer of the Year Douglas Cridland, “I’m always considering the question, ‘why is something successful?’ not ‘why is it of the moment?’”

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classic—it’s lush, full and deep in detail,” says Lavoie, a long-time admirer. “Doug should win ‘Designer of the Decade’ for his entire body of work.” California designer and judge Kelly Wearstler was likewise impressed by the consistent excellence of Cridland’s portfolio: “The execution is impeccable.” Cridland is self-deprecating about the win and his longevity. “I guess my run has been good,” he says when pressed. “Maybe it’s because I give people a classic look that has legs to it.” Thinking further, he adds: “Wherever I go, I’m always considering the question, ‘why is something successful?’ not ‘why is it of the moment?’”

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signature rich, earthy tones and infinite depth of detail. Between 1979 and 2014, Cridland developed his inimitable style by eschewing trends and, instead, masterfully and unpredictably blending his clients’ artwork and sentimental furniture with elements from other eras, from contemporary to mid-century modern (a period for which Cridland professes a hugely comfortable attachment—“Those are my roots,” he says) to traditional. Invariably, underneath all his signature layers are strong, classic lines. Judge and interior designer Paul Lavoie gave Cridland high marks for the timeless elegance of his work. “His style is enduring and

Smart Solutions A concrete wall in the living room (above) posed electrical challenges, but Cridland came up with a clever workaround: ceiling-mounted art lights and LED cove lighting, which provide a gallery-like feel. In the kitchen, the designer ditched the hood fan in favour of an existing air return vent in the ceiling (top right).

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Last year, Cridland expanded his firm—and renamed it Cridland Associates—to include a posse of young designers eager to learn Cridland-esque techniques, such as how to elegantly terminate a wood-panelled wall at a vaulted ceiling. But his team is also there to press forward with developing their own design eye under his supportive and demanding tutelage. Rather than step back, Cridland has leaned into and found inspiration in his team’s youthful enthusiasm. “They’re excited, and their excitement spurs me on. I’m such a visual person, and I still want to be able to share that.”

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Indeed, if you want in on the persistent chandelier-above-the-tub trend, well, Cridland will graciously deliver, but he’s unlikely to suggest it. And if you, like many contemporary-home owners in Calgary and elsewhere, want a stark white kitchen, Cridland’s probably not your man. “Lots of people associate me with dark, rich interiors—and, I admit, I do love them,” he says. “With the intensity of light we’ve got here, I find these sparkly white interiors kind of flat.” Rather, Cridland might panel the kitchen’s walls in wood, incorporate industrial concrete and stone, nix the oven hood to create expansiveness and punctuate the space with pops of colour in remarkable and functional ways.

One of the firm’s most recent collaborative projects was Cridland’s own downtown Calgary condo. The space embodies many of the designer’s signature moves: ceilings were raised two feet to take advantage of unused space, which was then fitted with tall wood millwork for extra storage and to gain dramatic vertical volume; a movable TV millwork-wall was built to add privacy and block sound to the den; concrete walls were installed for an industrial look; and a dark backdrop was created throughout to provide a dramatic canvas for Cridland’s collection of art and objects. It’s a rich, moody aesthetic, as timeless and unexpected as a Prairie sky. SEE SOURCES

A Fresh Start This flood-damaged home got a new life thanks to Cridland’s transformative reno. The kitchen’s industrial-chic concrete wall hides a full-height storage and wine room (above) while echoing the concrete fireplace in the living room (opposite). A grey-and-black palette makes the yellow B&B and Minotti pieces pop.

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Perspective Shift

The duo at Falken Reynolds Interiors had an unusual start to their careers— and their work is all the better for it. B Y B A R B S L I G L // P O R T R A I T B Y C A R LO R I C C I

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A cowboy and a cop: not your usual beginnings for these designers. Before they were Falken Reynolds Interiors, Chad Falkenberg rode the range and Kelly Reynolds patrolled the streets—until, on separate ends of the continent (Falkenberg in Texas and Reynolds in Vancouver), they each decided to go back to school for interior design in their early 30s. Now, 10 years later and just four years after becoming partners in work and life, they’re the winners of this year’s Robert Ledingham Memorial Award for emerging interior designers. “It was always there,” says Falkenberg—who recalls his affection for building with Lego as a kid—of the designer within. “We just took the long way there.” And those early careers just fuel their curiosity and creativity as designers today. “I think they give us a different perspective,” says Falkenberg of their circuitous paths to design. “There are so many different ways to do the same thing.” It’s likely part of what makes the duo’s work so “fresh and innovative,” says Calgary-based interior designer and judge Paul Lavoie, and

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“engaging and usable.” Function is always tied to fun for Falken Reynolds. “We step off the curb somewhere,” says Falkenberg, “and that little touch comes into our heads and says, ‘this is how it’s special; this is the one little thing we can add to make it more interesting.’” In a Scandinavian-inspired west side home in Vancouver, for example, a bold bleached-oak waterfall staircase is caressed by a lithe, black-steel-picket hand railing. The chunky wood stairs have solid risers so heavy and square that it was a challenge to add visual lightness. Using thinner rods (and more of them) made the staircase feel delicate, yet still sturdy. Judge, designer and global lifestyle brand head Kelly Wearstler particularly loved the design and describes the staircase as a “clever, simple execution of common architectural elements.” Wearstler also notes “a sense of delight and whimsy” throughout Falken Reynolds’s work, which “takes function very seriously without making it the point of the design.” It’s seen in a tiny yet statementmaking powder room in a Beatty Street loft in Vancouver. The room

Scandi Cool Designers Kelly Reynolds and Chad Falkenberg (above, left to right), photographed on the rooftop of the west side home they designed for a young family. The colour palette of the home is restricted to layers of whites and greys with black accents, the latter most striking in the staircase (far left) and the minimalist fireplace (centre).

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“We step off the curb somewhere,” says designer Chad Falkenberg, “and that little touch comes into our heads and says, ‘this is how it’s special; this is the one little thing we can add to make it more interesting.’”

is clad in wood, with Falken Reynolds using floorboards on the walls both for function (budget) and form (“It’s like being inside a gift box of wood,” says Falkenberg). Wearstler calls it “a soft statement that shows sophistication and poetic restraint.” Despite starting only four years ago, the duo has had a wide breadth of some 40 projects to their name, ranging in design from Craftsman to industrial modern. Each features clean lines, along with a no-fuss and casual West Coast feel, and a natural materials palette. And yet the pair draws from far beyond local inspiration, making a point of travelling every year to design shows in Milan and Paris. The two count many influences, from Zaha Hadid and the playful 4 2 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

“digital baroque” of Jaime Hayon to local interior designer, mentor and past Designers of the Year winner Robert Bailey—all of whom go far beyond utilitarian design. “Function definitely drives the beginning process, but it can’t be the end,” says Falkenberg. He recalls Vitruvius’s three-part design philosophy of firmitas, utilitas and venustas, or solidity, function and delight. “If we don’t enjoy it, what’s the point? That’s the essential balance of anything we do.” see sources

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All Together Now The design of this west side home revolves around family togetherness, with the kitchen’s work table island forming a central gathering place.

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View Finder Though the extensively renovated Kildonan house sits across the street from the Red River, it still has the feel of a riverside home, thanks to a cantilevered living space that creates gorgeous views of the water. Designer Clayton Salkeld removed interior walls to open up the space, and an ultrathin staircase features a glass banister for even more visual flow.

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ARCHITECTURE

Complete Package For Winnipeg’s Design-Built, the line between architect and builder, designer and craftsman, is beautifully blurred.

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#Designersthatbuild. That’s the hashtag that the Design-Built firm in Winnipeg uses on social media to underscore its philosophy. “We’re designers with tool belts,” says founder Clayton Salkeld. “There’s no disconnect between the ‘Design’ and ‘Built.’” This year’s Architecture winner is a firm that prides itself on handson work that goes well beyond the drafting table. Much of the team’s time is spent on the job site in dusty work clothes. And in that team of 19, most have formal design education and degrees, largely as graduates from the faculty of architecture at the University of Manitoba. “We actually are the people who are pouring the piles, framing the house, building the kitchen, staircases and furniture,” says Salkeld. westernliving.ca / s e p t e m b e r

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“Ideally, I want to build the crafted house, to make a house feel like it’s built by a furniture maker,” says designer Clayton Salkeld.

This under-one-roof approach began after Salkeld, now 35, graduated with an architecture degree from the U of M in 2004 and started his career by flipping houses. It’s how he honed his design-build philosophy, as well as core principles that he attributes to working in Winnipeg: value, honesty and respect. And these principles come through, whether it’s the 5,100-square-foot, $2.8-million-construction Bower house in the tony neighbourhood of Tuxedo or the simple footprint of the Langside house in transitioning West Broadway. “To aspire to elevate modest single-family design-build housing to the level of Japanese minimalism is a tall order in Winnipeg,” says Gregory Henriquez, judge and architect behind the Woodward’s redevelopment in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. “Clayton has built spaces of contemplation with dozens of thoughtful moments in each room. These are lucky people who get to inhabit his work.” It’s about relevance and appropriateness, says Salkeld. And, yes, keeping it simple. “For us, a great house is built of really basic elements,” he says. “One: great design. Two: great windows. Three: great floors.” As judge and renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma says of Design-Built’s portfolio, “Simplicity of concept enhances the relation among materials and extracts maximum expression.” One of the more striking elements in several of the Design-Built homes is the staircases. In the Langside residence, for example, the 4 6 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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stairs went through six different iterations, an example of the firm’s organic design process—loose and pliable—and on-site responsiveness. “That staircase was completely a by-product of ‘how do I spend the least amount of money and still have something that has some impact?’” says Salkeld. In the Kildonan house, the stairs are actually another version of the Langside design. The almost impossibly thin treads are made of individual “lighting bolts” of one-inch-thick plywood sheets, added one by one to create the slim and sculptural 36-inch-wide staircase. It’s this organic nature of detailing that’s become Design-Built’s calling card, whether it’s a doghouse (the smallest architecture project the firm’s taken on) or a dining table (Design-Built was also a finalist in the Designers of the Year Furniture category). Kuma notes DesignBuilt’s “constant success in referring to the intrinsic tectonic character of the details.” “Lack of authenticity is what ages things really fast,” says Salkeld, and, regardless of scale or budget, there will never be faux or fluff in his houses. “Ideally, I want to build the crafted house, to make a house feel like it’s built by a furniture maker.” He lives in a 110-year-old home in which he revels in timeless elements like weathered wood outside and an oiled floor inside. “Nobody else gets as excited about an oiled floor like we do,” says Salkeld, “because we’re the ones who installed it and sanded it and got to walk on it in bare feet right after we finished it.”

“Clayton has built spaces of contemplation with dozens of thoughtful moments in each room,” says judge Gregory Henriquez.

One, Two, Three The 5,100-square-foot Bower house embraces all three of Design-Built’s key components: big, beautiful windows that allow Prairie light to flow in (these ones look out to the backyard pool); great floors (here, that means oversized tiling downstairs and light oak boards lining the walkway above, which connects the home’s two wings); and great design. 4 8 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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ARTHUR ERICKSON MEMORIAL AWARD

Form and Fusion One part scientist, one part dreamer, Leckie Studio’s Michael Leckie finds the sweet spot of great architecture. B Y N E A L M c L E N N A N // P O R T R A I T B Y C A R LO R I C C I

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In a lot of ways, architecture is like a science. Quantifiable equations intersect with each other and, as result, a foundation is poured, walls go up, a window of a certain size is allowed to capture a specific view. And a person who approaches the practice with that sort of rigour would no doubt take solace in the fact that Michael Leckie, degree holder in genetics and student of molecular virology, has spent the requisite amount of time in a university lab looking through microscopes and carefully tabulating his findings. But in other ways, architecture is more like writing a symphony: both employ a series of building blocks, to be sure, but it’s the manner in which a maestro puts those blocks together—drawing on everything from a sunset once experienced to a scene in a favourite movie—that sparks the magic, the art of creation. To passionate followers of this romantic idyll we present another Michael Leckie, post-science degree, pre-UBC master’s in architecture, maintaining a winter-long residence in a Volkswagen van on the beach at surfer’s paradise Todos Santos, just

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north of Cabo. Waking up each morning and drinking in all that the world has to offer from the stance of a surfboard, livin’ the dream. The truth is that great architecture is a fusion of these two solitudes, the embracing, as Leckie puts it, “of abstract spatial thinking” that’s equal parts lab coat and board shorts. The irony is, one has only to drive an hour and a half south of Leckie’s youthful prized surf break to see how he has managed to blend art and science in a striking white pared-down residence on the tip of Baja. The Costa Azul house channels what judge and architect Kengo Kuma calls “exquisite minimalist details”: polished concrete floors, stark white slabs of wall, a tranquil interior water feature. But a closer inspection reveals that the house (designed with former partner Javier Campos) is far from a monolithic ode to Donald Judd. The building—built for a former film industry professional with the design of renting it out—is an ingenious interplay of separate livable pods that can be configured in a number of different iterations to suit who is living there, who is renting a room and what

Down Mexico Way The Costa Azul house in Cabo—designed as an Airbnb rental—is a study in contrasts: sunlight and shade, privacy and shared spaces, concrete and water. The all-white building ingeniously frames the views to screen out neighbours’ houses while still letting the Baja landscape peek through: in the living room, windows align perfectly with a view of the beach and distant hills.

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sort of space is desired by each. And in an area of the world noted for its multi-million-dollar vacation homes, the residence was done on a very modest budget that would be evident only to the owner. Closer to home, Leckie continues the interplay between form and function: in Vancouver’s Gastown, the by-definition playful concept of a Korean ice-cream store is bolstered by a white metal grid (worthy of Buckminster Fuller) that lends some visual gravitas to the urban space. Likewise, the only-in-Yaletown concept of a Swedish hard-candy store is delivered with an order and a presentation that channels nothing less than Damien Hirst’s postmodern take on a pharmacy. It’s candy shopping that’s equal parts solemn and celebratory. It’s that balance, that push and pull, that drew the judges to the work of Leckie Studio (founded only in 2015) for this year’s Arthur Erickson Memorial Award for an emerging architect. The purposeful use of “studio” is no mere coinage, but a representation of the free interplay of ideas between all the participants—including the client. “Our office has all these amazing people with great ideas floating around in their heads,” says Leckie, “and then when we come across the right client, we embark on this amazing collaboration.” Like catching a sweet wave... when you’ve meticulously charted out the tidal flow. 5 2 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

Shop Talk The Swedish hard-candy store Karameller takes inspiration from Scandinavian design, with white interiors that put colourful sweets on full display (top). Elsewhere in Vancouver, ice cream shop Uyu (bottom) features waterjet-cut metal wall and ceiling panels inspired by the crystalline patterns found in frost.

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The truth is that great architecture is a fusion of science and inspiration, the embracing, as designer Michael Leckie puts it, “of abstract spatial thinking” that’s equal parts lab coat and board shorts.

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FURNITURE

Finding Balance

Designer Steven Pollock left a career in tech to rediscover a passion for wood, concrete and steel. B Y B A R B S L I G L // P O R T R A I T B Y C A R LO R I C C I

The Right Angles Furniture designer Steven Pollock (top) in his Parker Street studio; his Gammon bench pairs an organic, live edge with a modern, minimalist concrete base.

In an industrial corner of East Vancouver, behind colourful street art and graffiti tags in what was once the boiler room of a century-old warehouse, Steven Pollock transforms concrete and wood into functional works of art. Here, he mulls and muses over designs: a coffee table of felled wood atop two concrete slabs; deceptively simple concrete vessels, each with its own pattern of air bubbles. It’s a workspace that’s a world away from where this year’s Furniture Designer of the Year started. Pollock has occupied the boiler room at 1000 Parker Street, amid a diverse set of other art and design studios, since he left a successful tech career and the skyscrapers of downtown more than a decade ago. “I was always executing plans and dreams for other people,” he says. And he was bored. After realizing he wanted more than financial reward, he remembered his love of woodworking and art classes in high school. “I jumped back in,” says Pollock, “making my own mistakes, learning what I like and don’t like, working for myself.” That blank slate has become a distinct, authentic westernliving.ca / s e p t e m b e r

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perspective and fresh, raw style. “His history and ambition to change professions in a competitive industry are inspiring,” says judge and past British Designer of the Year Lee Broom. “And being self-taught gives him an edge.” Pollock takes inspiration from his surroundings—urban architecture or forested mountains—rather than from mentors. Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge was the stimulus for a glass, concrete and steel office desk, its concrete legs like abutments and the holes in its custom-welded I-beam akin to rivets. A table with circles of white oak, spaced apart to withstand outdoor elements, seems to emulate the rings of a tree trunk. The cantilevered Balance table, slight yet strong, is an iteration of the construction cranes that proliferate across Vancouver’s skyline and a comment on balancing constant development within our finite world, says Pollock. Pollock’s minimalist, organic palette—indigenous and reclaimed wood, concrete, steel, glass—is limited, yet the juxtapositions of these materials create infinite opportunities for new designs. “The combinations of opposing materials such as metal, concrete and wood are challenging,” says Broom, “yet Steven has made it look so easy.” And while Pollock doesn’t purposefully create contrast, he uses “whatever the piece calls for” to achieve balance: steel gives structure, concrete provides substance and wood adds warmth.

Pollock has mastered the rare art of creating designs that are at once intricate yet simple. “The Balance table,” notes judge Thom Fougere, creative director of EQ3, “resolves a complex gesture with a simple engineered resolution.” With its solid-yet-airy concrete and lithe-yet-strong steel, it’s a manifestation of the minimalist-yet-magnanimous statement in all of Pollock’s work.

Material World The Balance table (above) is inspired by construction cranes, with a cantilevered tabletop made stable with weighty concrete legs. The fir-andconcrete Bentalls (above left) take their name from the Burrard Street office tower where Pollock once worked.

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Co-founders Jodie Webb and Kirk Van Ludwig source all their wood from B.C., predominantly from Vancouver Island, and keep their inspiration local—Stanley Park and the ’70s modernism movement emerge in their rustic-modern pieces through acrylic, steel, concrete and striking modern angles. Their 1970 table, made of curved steel and Western red cedar, comes from a selection of decades-old wood that Van Ludwig has been holding on to, just waiting for the right occasion. The impressive pairing of opposing material is not an easy task to accomplish, but it’s one they’ve done well, says judge Lee Broom: “The contrast of natural and manmade materials is incredibly engaging.” The Victoria-based furniture company also makes a point of preserving the tree’s integrity and remaining ethical and green. “We’re very fascinated by buzzwords like sustainability,” says Webb, adding, “Our customers are looking to buy a piece of the West Coast.” —Ames Bourdeau 5 4 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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INDUSTRIAL

Bright Ideas

Matthew McCormick’s graphic designs are lighting up the West.

Halo (top): Matthew McCormick; Halo (bottom): Ryan Tam

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Put a Ring on It The Halo lights may be reminiscent of gymnastic rings, but the design was originally inspired by the bubbles in Prosecco. (The anodized gold housing took a cue from the bottle’s packaging.)

“I’ve always loved light,” says Vancouver designer Matthew McCormick. “It creates ambiance, sets a tone, tells a story.” Even when he was working as an art director in the advertising world, he was spending his nights “tinkering” at home with renovations, building his own furniture and creating his own homespun lighting designs. But it took a random dinner guest to take McCormick’s tinkering from a hobby to a lifestyle: a friend of a friend loved his handmade lights and asked if he would design something for a new restaurant in Kitsilano called Fable. That first commission was created in a parking lot across the street from McCormick’s house: he was armed with a blowtorch and some hand tools. “My mentor at the time asked me, ‘How many more lights will it take to convince you this is what you have to be doing?’” he says. Since then, this year’s Industrial Designer of the Year has been creating work that judge Paolo Cravedi describes as “fascinating and poetic, fresh and compelling.” McCormick quickly outgrew his parking-lot workspace and moved to an East Vancouver studio as one light led to westernliving.ca / S E P T E M B E R

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another, and another, and another. His Halo pendant—circular fluorescent tubes with an anodized gold base—was originally designed for Italian Prosecco company Bottega (the bubbles and gold-foil-wrapped bottle sparked an idea for a vertically oriented installation that mimicked effervescent bubbles). The Dawn light is a scramble of brass posts and softly glowing chemical-glass lights, inspired by the intricacies of an earring. You’ll spot these, and more of McCormick’s graphic designs, at restaurants (Earls), shops (Kit and Ace, Provide) and homes in the West and around the world. Their popularity is due in part to the chameleon nature of the deceptively simple designs—his 24-karat-gold 12-sided Dodeca ring lamp looks equally at home in a minimalist Scandinavian-style dining room as it does in a chi-chi Toronto Cactus Club. Considering his graphic design background, it’s not a surprise that McCormick’s lamps have a graphic quality themselves. And though they may look basic—like the

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Wide-Open Spaces McCormick took full advantage of the 25-foot ceilings in Vancouver’s Bauhaus restaurant (above left), cutting the volume of the space with a stripped-down linear lighting installation. The Dodeca light (above right) was born out of an error, when a computer-generated drawing rendered smooth circles into a 12-faceted object. McCormick experimented with the result and created this sculptural light.

brass-lined linear tube lights that criss-cross at Vancouver’s Bauhaus restaurant—McCormick knows there’s an art to keeping things simple. “I admire minimalism. I love going into a design shop and looking at lamps and knowing they’re using just $30 worth of material, but that they’re so much more than the sum of their parts,” he explains. “It’s the intrinsic way they’re put together. Being lavish isn’t the point. It’s about the challenge of paring back.” But as he’s trying to pare back, McCormick’s also scaling up, partnering with larger-capacity manufacturers and fabricators to meet the demand for custom installations and consumer-ready pieces. Handcrafting small stand-alone fixtures was one thing; for bigger projects—like the angular 1,400-kilogram aluminum Shattered light installation he designed in 2014 for an Earls restaurant, a project that took two 18-wheeler trucks to ship to Virginia—he’s the first to admit he needs some help. Luckily, McCormick is a team player through and through. “My fabrication team, the glass-blowing guy, other designers and architects—we’re all in it together. It’s all done with a collaborative spirit,” he says. “If you can’t share the toys in the sandbox, I don’t think you’re in the right sandbox.”

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“It’s really important to understand, first and foremost, the people who are interacting with the product we create,” says Nick Kazakoff, co-founder, along with Brendan Gallagher, of OneTwoSix Design. For the Edmonton-based duo, it’s less about aesthetics, and more about problem solving, so while their contemporaries are going the auteur route, Kazakoff and Gallagher are rolling up their sleeves and tackling commissions from a wide range of clients. Some days, that means they’re designing for medical labs; other times, they’re creating enclosures for computer chips used for timing ski races. “Because we are selling design as a service, it’s almost like we’re selling our process more than a finished result,” says Kazakoff. But that finished result often turns out beautifully anyway. A standout piece is their Loop phone booth (shown right)—a modern glass-andmaple soundproof phone booth that provides privacy for confidential phone calls in open-concept offices. “It’s so creative and so practical,” says judge Paolo Cravedi, managing director for Alessi U.S.A. —Dominika Lirette 5 8 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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FASHION

Something New

Bridal designer Gaby Bayona sets herself apart with her youthful collection of natural-waist chiffon dresses—and she’s only 23. B Y A M E S B O U R D E A U // P O R T R A I T B Y C A R LO R I C C I

It’s in the Details Designer Gaby Bayona in her Gastown studio (above). Her 2016 collection focuses on cool ivory shades (right).

“I look at fashion from a problem-solving mindset,” says Gaby Bayona. It’s not something you expect to hear from a wedding dress designer, especially not one with such a knack for romantic whimsy (rose-gold sequins and chiffon are her tools of the trade). “I ask myself, ‘what could be in the market that isn’t already in there? What do people want? What do my friends want?’” But the Vancouver-based designer, who was named WL’s One to Watch last year, is doing something right with her business-minded approach to such an emotional industry. On top of her Gastown storefront, Bayona wholesales her brand, Truvelle, all over the world (with retailers as far away as South Africa and Australia), runs another bridal line, Laudae, with her mother, and is in the process of moving into her new 6,300-square-foot Mount Pleasant studio. It’s fitting that Truvelle stems from the French word trouvaille, which means “lucky accident”—Bayona didn’t plan to end up in the industry. After being rejected from UBC’s Sauder School of Business, the young entrepreneur, westernliving.ca / s e p t e m b e r

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“I liked light colours and flowy, natural waists,” says Gaby Bayona, “and to my surprise, a lot of brides were into that.”

whose mother raised her as a single parent while working in various bridal shops, helped her mom at her own customgown business. “When I was designing at my mom’s bridal shop, I was mainly doing grad dresses because that’s what was relevant to me at the time,” says Bayona. “I liked light colours and flowy, natural waists, and to my surprise a lot of brides were into that.” This idea still prevails in every Truvelle collection: her most recent releases skew youthful— many feature bows, beads or heart-shaped necklines—but the off-white Brianna gown showcases a sophisticated side, too, with a plunging neckline and shimmering chiffon layer to accompany an oversized bow. While Bayona may think she still has a ways to go (she’d like a conglomerate of bridal companies, ideally five or six, and to start publishing bridal city guides), it’s hard to dismiss her success in relation to her young age. “It’s

quite amazing to me that a 23-year-old woman can be so secure in her beliefs about what her company should be about,” says judge Danielle Papin, co-founder of Pyrrha, “especially when it’s so unconventional.” Bayona hopes to be part of the groundwork for expanding her city’s fashion and bridal community—itself still relatively young. “There are so few people doing fashion here,” she says. “It gets me excited knowing that if there are other bridal stores that pop up, I could have been the benchmark for them.”

A Cut Above Truvelle makes all of its dresses in Vancouver, with just two seamstresses and a crew of five people—who also handle pattern-cutting, administration, showroom appointments and marketing. The dresses are also easily altered post-wedding for other uses.

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LAR A PRESBER

If you’ve seen Lara Presber’s womenswear collection, you might not be surprised to hear she’s an architect by trade: her smartly designed pieces take their inspiration from the structures Presber loves. Her Spring 2010 collection illustrates illusory layering inspired by Chicago’s Aqua Tower, while dresses from Spring 2011 take inspiration from the metallic and organic essence of the Alberta Gallery of Art. For Presber, translating the philosophies of architecture to fashion allows her to explore creativity without sacrificing functionality. “I think the skills that I use to build buildings help me really understand the properties of the textile, the structure of the fabric itself, and how they all work together,” she says. Her latest creation, the Commute skirt, may not be inspired by a specific structure, but it is evidence of Presber’s beautiful mix of analytics and artistry: a fastening mechanism keeps the flowy skirt together during bike rides. For judge Danielle Wilmore, Presber’s merging of function and fashion is most impressive: “The Commute skirt is not only smart and solves a problem, it looks great while doing it… and that’s a difficult thing to achieve.”—Carlo Javier 6 2 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 / westernliving.ca

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Cathy Terepocki crafts ceramics that bring old-world tradition to modern whimsy. B Y J U L I A D I LW O R T H // P O R T R A I T B Y C A R LO R I C C I

Hand and Heart Ceramicist Cathy Terepocki with her daughter, Hazel, in her studio. Her work often features nostalgic patterns and materials.

In Cathy Terepocki’s world, ceramics is a practice without shortcuts. Her functional plates, bowls and jars are shaped on the wheel into forms she’ll hand-throw thousands of times. She’ll add in layers of painted colour, print, glaze and reclaimed materials throughout a four-stage firing process where even the tiniest rogue air bubble can send her back to square one. “It’s definitely a laborious process,” says Terepocki, and yet it’s the demanding physicality that drew her to ceramics in the first place. “I liked the idea of learning a craft and

really having to stick it out and put hours into mastering it—that was the appeal.” From her small home studio out in the countryside of Yarrow, B.C. (closest “big” city: Chilliwack), the ceramicist mixes materials and time periods, patterns and geometrics, in a way that judge and interior designer Kelly Deck notes draws on the history of craft while being “totally relevant and fresh,” she says. “I’m very fond of her painterly approach to her plate series and her playfulness in mixing media with her clever pots.” Born just outside Toronto, the ceramicist has been honing her craft for some 12 years since graduating from Alberta’s College of Art and Design, and yet each individual piece—a product of hours or days in the studio—belies signs of that time-intensive labour with designs that look at ease and full of whimsy. In her Pine Creek series of bowls, mugs and pots, speckled oatmeal-coloured clay is paired with diamond shapes of 14-karat gold and loose, illustrative geometric patterns. She named the collection for the Australian town she briefly lived in after high school (she was working in a gold mine) and wanted to play on the craft’s long history of gilded westernliving.ca / s e p t e m b e r

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Vessels of Creativity Terepocki’s Buena Vista series (below) references folk pottery of the ’60s and ’70s, with bright, modern colours and graphic printed surfaces. The Pine Creek collection (right) uses decals made with a printer that has iron oxide in the toner, which melts into the final glaze.

ceramics and fine china. Embellishments typically found in the form of gold-leaf rims on fancy French porcelain teacups are juxtaposed with earthy and folksy handmade clay. “There’s so much possibility with ceramics,” says Terepocki, “and I think by layering things like that up and putting them beside each other, it changes people’s perceptions of materials.” The ceramics artist further tries to connect people to her work by layering in little hits of nostalgia. The chunky beads on her Mount Pleasant series are from string-andbead kits, the kind she remembers playing with as a kid, and the wooden lids are cut from reclaimed floorboards. Bands and washes of hand-painted colour are present in every piece, as well as pattern. For the latter, she uses an old printer with iron oxide in the toner to transfer her designs. During kiln firing, the toner burns away while the iron melts into the clay, leaving the burnt-iron-brown print that’s become her signature. Her more traditional and punchy primary-coloured Quilt Plate series draws on her background as a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite. “I grew up surrounded by quilts,” she explains. “The main inspiration for those was hex signs that were painted on barns throughout Pennsylvania.” The textile-based pattern on her Buena Vista container series pulls a similar thread, a design that references Italian fabric design from the late 1970s, around the time Terepocki was a kid. Each vestige from the past functions as a strategic entry point to get people to “engage with it a little bit more than just using it,” she says. As artful, detailed and time-intensive as her ceramics are, it’s in the seemingly mundane rituals of everyday life where Terepocki’s functional work shines. A morning mug of coffee, a bowl of cereal before bed, the sugar bowl you dip into throughout the day—“I like making work that’s celebrating pretty ordinary routine,” says Terepocki. “I like the thought of being part of people’s day.”

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WENDY W. FOK

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Wendy W. Fok’s interest in building things started with making motors for little Japanese toy cars and escalated by age 18 to full-fledged motorcycle design. “I always had an interest in taking things apart and putting them back together,” says this year’s Maker to Watch. As the creative director of WE-Designs (with offices in both Vancouver and New York), Fok uses her architectural background to create immersive, one-of-a-kind public design installations for events (like SXSW), companies (Alessi) and cultural institutions (Times Square). Her Projective Dualism 2.0 pop-up structure in Boston welcomed the public into a compact, reflective space (pictured right) that explored the difficulty of privacy in cities that are subject to surveillance; the LED prisms she installed in a Hong Kong square create the optical illusion of being an “impossible object.” Her bold designs caught the attention of judge Kelly Deck: “Wendy’s work is innovative and evoking, and I’m very excited about the path she will blaze.”—with files from Giordano Rizzuti see sources

WLDOTY 2016 // judges and finalists

The Judges ARCHITECTURE Brad Cloepfil founded Allied Works Architecture in Portland, Oregon, in 1994. He has received particular acclaim for his work on cultural projects and powerful spaces for art and interaction. Gregory Henriquez is the managing partner of Henriquez Partners Architects. He was the design architect for the Telus Garden building, Vancouver’s first LEED Platinum-certified office tower. Simon Jacobsen is an award-winning designer and the managing design partner of Jacobsen Architecture, where he oversees the firm’s projects in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Kengo Kuma, principal of Tokyo’s Kengo Kuma and Associates, works extensively with light and shadow, wood and flexibility, and will be incorporating those elements into Vancouver’s new 43-storey Coal Harbour tower, Alberni by Kuma. FASHION Danielle Papin is one-half of Vancouver-based fashion design brand Pyrrha, known for crafting pendants from rough-hewn antique seals. Pyrrha’s line has been embraced by celebrities and is sold worldwide, including at a flagship store in L.A. Treana Peake is a two-time Fashion Designer of the Year Award winner and founder of Obakki, a fashion label that donates 100 percent of proceeds to humanitarian organizations. Richard Simons, vice-president of merchandising for Simons stores, represents the fifth generation to lead and continue the vision of this fashionfocused family company. FURNITURE Lee Broom is one of the U.K.’s leading product and interior designers. He has won more than 20 awards, including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award and, recently, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise—the U.K.’s highest accolade for business success.

FINALISTS

INDUSTRIAL Omer Arbel is the creative director of Bocci and a multidisciplinary designer. He is the recipient of the 2010 Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement and the 2015 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Medal. Wiebke Braasch has been an in-house designer for Ikea since 2004, contributing beloved designs to both everyday lines and the special-edition PS collections launched annually. Paolo Cravedi is managing director of Alessi U.S.A., a world leader at the forefront of groundbreaking design concepts. Prior to Alessi, he was the managing director for Kartell U.S. INTERIORS Martyn Lawrence Bullard is a multi-award-winning L.A.-based interior designer. His work has appeared in more than 4,000 publications worldwide, and his clientele includes Tommy Hilfiger, Cher and Aaron Sorkin. Paul Lavoie has been a Calgary-based residential interior designer for more than 25 years. His career has been documented by design magazines such as Architectural Digest and Luxe and many other international publications. Alda Pereira is a Vancouver-based interior designer with plentiful accolades. Her work has been featured in Metropolitan Home magazine and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Kelly Wearstler’s eponymous global luxury lifestyle brand is renowned for its distinctive designs and sophisticated, soulful vibe. Wearstler has been named on Architectural Digest’s Top 100 Architecture and Interior Design list.

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Jonathan Adler launched his first ceramic collection in 1994. Now his empire encompasses myriad product lines, each dedicated to bringing style, craft and joy to life.

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Thom Fougere studied architecture at the University of Manitoba before working in furniture and product design. In 2011, he was appointed creative director of Canadian design house EQ3 at the age of 24.

Brent Comber is the fourth generation of his family to call North Vancouver home, where he acts as principal of Brent Comber Studio. His wood furniture, art and installations have found homes across the world.

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Antoine Roset is executive vice-president of Roset USA, parent company of Ligne Roset, the multinational furniture design and manufacturing company with factories in France, headquarters in Briord and 750 retail distributors worldwide.

Kelly Deck is the director of interior design firm Kelly Deck Design. Her ideas have had a wide reach through her HGTV series, Take It Outside, her national column in the Globe and Mail and ongoing contributions to Canadian magazines.

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Design-Built Judson Beaumont OneTwoSix Design Sabina Hill Shipway Living Design Steven Pollock

MAKER Amanda Hamilton Cathy Terepocki Cory Barkman Heather Braun-Dahl Markella Mildenberger Ulla Clark Wendy W. Fok

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he black and white keys move under the talented fingers of Steinway artist Ian Parker as he brings the gorgeous instrument to life. Then, minutes later, the keys spring to life again only this time without the aid of the artist. It’s mesmerizing to see the keys move up and down exactly as Ian had played them producing the same inflection, the same emotion and the same nuances as the world class performance we just heard. Goosebumps run up your arms as you witness this ghostly performance, but it’s no ghost, it’s technology that Steinway & Sons has designed into its newest creation – the Steinway Spirio, a new high-resolution player piano system. Steinway & Sons, which for more than 160 years has been dedicated

to making the finest pianos in the world, introduced the Steinway Spirio to media at its Calgary launch in June and astonished everyone with its ability to reproduce performances to amazing accuracy. “The Spirio is our most significant product innovation in over 70 years; it picks up everything from the smallest nuances, delicate pedalling and soft trills, reproducing the sound exactly like the artist performed it,” says Eric Feidner, senior vice-president of Technology, Steinway & Sons. “There is nothing else like this; it’s like having a private concert in your living room.” When a customer purchases a Spirio, they receive an iPad with an App where they can access a catalogue of music that has been recorded at the highest resolution possible. The catalogue contains thousands of

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SPONSORED REPORT tracks — including classical, jazz and contemporary – all recorded live by accomplished Steinway artists in Steinway’s master recording studio, and new music will be added every month. What’s also incredible is that Spirio owners can access all the music for free. And, they can also see videos of artists performing via the iPad or through Apple TV with Spirio playing. The performance by Ian and videos were presented during a VIP launch of the Spirio, in Calgary on June 28, which was so electrifying for one participant that she purchased a Steinway Spirio right after the event. “When a true lover of piano music hears the emotion when a song is played on this piano they are moved and identify with it immediately,” says Kevin Anderson, store manager/piano consultant for Steinway Piano Gallery Calgary. “She loved the sound and the extraordinary ability to experience world class performances so she purchased our seven-foot model, which we delivered the next day.” Two Spirio pianos have been on display and demonstrated since the beginning of June at the Calgary store (76 Heritage Gate S.E.), and Kevin says the response has been “everything from tears to giggling with joy, to people who stand there and say ‘no way, no way’ repeatedly. I’ve been in the music business for more than 25 years and I’ve never seen that response to an instrument.” Graham Blank, vice-president of Tom Lee Music Canada, which has been representing Steinway in Canada since 1978 and owns Steinway Piano Gallery Calgary, says about 60 per cent of Spirio’s sales are to nonplayers. “Frankly, that’s the most exciting thing about it because up until now only people who could truly enjoy a Steinway were Steinway artists, and now everyone can enjoy it.” In essence, for those who don’t play piano, a Spirio turns a Steinway from a piece of furniture into lively instrument that provides entertainment by not just one, but hundreds of Steinway artists in its truest form. For further details, visit www.steinwaycalgary.ca.

From left to right: Graham Blank, VP, Tom Lee Music; Kevin Anderson, Manager, Steinway Piano Gallery Calgary; Elaine Danelesko, the Director of the Mount Royal University Conservatory; Todd Sanders, Vice-President Americas, Steinway & Sons.

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The annual Modern Home Tour gets a brand-new name—the Modern Architecture and Design Society Home Tour—along with a new edition in Calgary that includes this modern gem.

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One of the signature elements of this Calgary home is the board-formed concrete “spine” that runs from indoors to out, seen here in the kitchen, stairwell and living spaces. Wood pressed into the concrete leaves an impression of the grain.

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When Jenny Hassenbach and Hugh MacDonald of Newgrowth Fine Homes decided to build modern for their dream home on Toronto Crescent in Calgary, they first did a bit of a test run. The couple had always lived in Craftsmanstyle homes, but they were ready to try something new after building several modern showstoppers for clients. But before they went all in, they built a duplex and lived in one half of it. “We used it as a test case to try out some of the things we’d do in Toronto Crescent,” says MacDonald. The full-sized home they now live in (which will be featured on this year’s Modern Architecture and Design Society Home Tour) takes plenty of inspiration from that initial mini-design. The kitchen, for example, with its oversized island and white-lacquered cabinets, is almost identical to the one in the duplex, with a few tweaks. “We didn’t know if we’d like white on white with dark floors,” says MacDonald. “But we really did, save for a few changes. Where we had walnut floors in the duplex, we went with oak stained dark in this home. Same look, but much more durable.” The couple partnered with Marvin DeJong of DeJong Design Associates, whom they’d worked with on other

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projects, to design the home. “He had great ideas on how to maximize the advantages of the lot,” says Hassenbach. “Every bedroom had a view, for example—and we don’t need air conditioning, because we get great cross breezes.” Perhaps the most stunning element in the home came from DeJong: a board-formed concrete wall that acts as a spine throughout the home, travelling from indoors to out and separating the public and the private spaces. The process was painstaking: MacDonald trucked in the wood for the forms himself, working with small mills from B.C. and Alberta. “Concrete’s a modern material, but it can be cold,” says MacDonald. “By using the board form, the lumber is rough when it’s cut, so you can see the wood grain in the concrete. It really gives it a warmer feel.” Tour this home and five others on the self-guided MADS Home Tours, which run in both Calgary (September 24) and Vancouver (September 17) as part of Western Living Design Week. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door, with proceeds supporting design students in each city. More info at mads.media.

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Who would have thought that the wares from your grandmother’s root cellar would become the modern-day hallmark of a great restaurant? Pickled beets once used to signify that you lived through the Depression—now they mean that you’re committed to controlling as much of the food preparation process as humanly possible. Perhaps no restaurant typifies this turnabout more than Galiano Island’s ocean-totable temple, Pilgrimme. Our profile of this unique spot starts on page 76.

Can It! Preserves in the outdoor prep area at Pilgrimme Restaurant.

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ONE’S OWN A pilgrim’s path to opening Canada’s most exciting new restaurant. by Gary Stephen roSS // photographs by evaan kheraj // recipes by jeSSe mccleery (adapted by julie van roSendaal)

very chef with their own restaurant has taken a unique path. If, along the way, they have not mastered ingredients, and techniques, the culinary zeitgeist and the unforgiving math that ties costs to revenue, the place likely won’t last long. If they have, and if they’re gifted and enjoy a bit of luck, they just might end up with a superb little restaurant. Maybe on Galiano Island. Jesse McCleery’s journey began inauspiciously in Winnipeg. As kids, he and his sisters lived with their father, who often made scrambled eggs for dinner. “We realized if we didn’t want to eat the same stuff all the time,” McCleery, 37, recalls, “we’d have to make it ourselves.” In Grade 10 at Kelvin High (Neil Young’s alma mater), he got a job in the dish pit at a little Italian spot, Civita. Before long, he was helping in the kitchen, learning pasta and bread. When the chef lent him Larousse Gastronomique, the encyclopedia of French cuisine, McCleery was smitten: “I studied it every day.” He moved on to the restaurants Panic (“Brian Smith taught me basic things, like making sure a piece of fish doesn’t crack”) and Storm (“the first place I was allowed to do some of my own dishes”) before he felt the travel itch. A sister had moved to Tofino. On a visit, he fell in love with the coast. The food scene wasn’t nearly as vital as it is today—“mostly fish and chips,” says McCleery—so he ended up at the upscale Clayoquot

Wilderness Resort, an isolated eco-lodge half an hour by boat from Tofino. “It was an eye-opener: ingredients I’d never seen before—sea cucumber, stinging nettle, sea asparagus. And Tim May was a great teacher who didn’t mind letting you fall on your face.” So began McCleery’s fascination with the culinary possibilities of whatever bounty was at hand. The ever-changing menu at Pilgrimme, his and Leanne Lalonde’s Galiano Island restaurant, is built around hyper-local ingredients (plus visits to farmers’ markets on Vancouver Island). Many of his dishes are heightened by pickling or fermentation, and almost all involve unusual combinations that evidence a mastery of flavours and textures. McCleery also worked at Cafe Brio in Victoria, where another book furthered his passion: Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry Cookbook. “The level of detail, the obsession, was incredible. Chris Dignan and I often spent 15 hours a day trying to create dishes at that level,” he says. The big challenge was stress. “I hardly slept, thinking about the menu. There might be 130 covers, and 98 of them were between 7 and 8 p.m. You had to be good at working quickly while organizing the line and calling bills.” Three years later, tired of the city and seriously burned out, he headed up to King Pacific Lodge, a floating ultra-luxe resort near Haida Gwaii. There, he met Leanne, and rotated through the kitchen

stations. At season’s end, when the barge was towed to dry dock, they went with it. Somebody had to stay on board for insurance reasons, and so they lived in a North Vancouver shipyard—albeit on one of the the country’s most expensive hotels—through the winter. Brief stints at several Vancouver rooms taught him valuable lessons about his own needs and preferences. “I couldn’t see myself in a corporate environment,” he says. “You realize it’s all about who you like to work with, and where and how you like to work.” For McCleery, that meant the wilderness, the ocean and the freshest ingredients. Urban life again lost its appeal, and they returned to King Pacific Lodge, where McCleery was put in charge of provisioning for the summer: “Not just the guests, but 35 staff, three meals a day, for six months. Massive amounts of stuff.” When the owners (the Morita

family, of Sony fame) shut it down, McCleery ended up at Bodega Ridge on Galiano Island, cooking for weddings and corporate retreats. Then he headed to Denmark for a six-month stage at the Michelin-starred Noma. There, under the watch of the guru René Redzepi, he became expert at forest-and-seashore foraging. He was newly back in Vancouver when, in the fall of 2014, he and Lalonde learned that a defunct bistro on Galiano was up for lease. With its forest, seashore, ocean and small farms, the island was ideal for his culinary approach. It was a financial stretch, but they jumped at the chance. “We put in lots of elbow grease, and we bought what equipment we could,” says McCleery. Friends chipped in; Chambar, in Vancouver, donated old chairs. “Then,” he says, “right before we were supposed to open, we ran out of money. “It’s funny, I was sitting at the ferry terminal, wondering what to do, when I got an email offer on my phone for a line of credit. I figured, may as well try, so I called the bank. I waited and waited, and when the guy finally came back on the line, he said, ‘It looks good.’ I said, ‘Really?’ He said, ‘I’m surprised, too, but you’ve been approved.’” Which is how a quiet, self-taught kid from Winnipeg and his partner ended up opening a restaurant in the Galiano woods. The place is simplicity itself, a rustic cabin with a little verandah in a coniferous woodland. A partnership with the Galiano Permaculture Food Forest up-island yields such treasure as lovage, parsley root, radish pods, sheep sorrel and black radishes. A dish as profoundly straightforward as a Cable Bay Farm potato, firm and dense and cooked in whey buttermilk with smoked and pickled bull kelp, becomes the very essence of time and place: you’re on Galiano Island, near the seashore, at the height of summer. It’s like nothing you’ve tasted before. Small wonder McCleery is celebrated for making food as personal and singular as the path he took to get here.

The ever-changing menu at Pilgrimme, Jesse McCleery and Leanne Lalonde’s Galiano Island restaurant, is built around hyper-local ingredients.

Greens and Vegetables with Elderflower Vinaigrette Radish Chioggia or candy cane beet Hakurei turnip Good greens from a farm, a friend or your own garden Elderflower vinaigrette A mild local blue cheese, such as Tiger Blue from Poplar Grove

Pickled Elderflower 1½ cups (350 mL) water 3 Tbsp (35 g) salt 2 cups (500 mL) good-quality apple cider vinegar ¼ cup (75 g) honey Elderflowers In a medium saucepan, bring the water and salt to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until the salt dissolves. Remove from heat and stir in the vinegar and honey. Let cool to room temperature. Clean the elderflowers in several changes of cold water. Drain well and let dry. Place the elderflowers in jars and pour the roomtemperature brine over to cover. Seal and let stand in a cool area for one week.

Elderflower Vinaigrette 100 g pickled elderflower 3 tbsp (45 mL) elderflower pickle brine 3 tbsp (45 mL) honey 1½ tbsp (20 mL) fermented mustard seeds or grainy Dijon ⅓ cup (85 mL) cold-pressed grapeseed oil Salt to taste Combine all ingredients in a Mason jar and shake vigorously. To plate salad Using a mandoline, thinly shave the radish, beet and turnip. Toss the greens with the vinaigrette to your liking, salt to taste, add the shaved vegetables and divide among serving plates; top with crumbled blue cheese.

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Celeriac with Gribiche and Sprouted Grains Sprouted Grains ¼ cup (60 mL) rye berries ¼ cup (60 mL) spring wheat berries Celeriac 1 medium celeriac Apple cider vinegar Good-quality olive oil Sea salt Gribiche 4 duck or 5 hen (chicken) eggs, hard boiled 2 medium shallots, chopped 2 tbsp (30 mL) capers, chopped 1 tbsp (15 mL) Dijon mustard 1 tbsp (15 mL) apple cider vinegar ½ cup (125 mL) chopped parsley 1 tbsp (15 mL) chopped tarragon or chervil Olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste Fresh parsley, chervil or other fresh herbs, for garnish

Start your sprouted grains 3 days ahead: place the rye and spring wheat berries in two separate small bowls, cover with warm water by about an inch and soak for 2 hours. Drain and place in a sieve or tamis inside a bowl and cover with a damp towel. Set aside for 3 days. At least three times a day, rinse the grains under warm water, place back in the bowl and cover with the damp towel. After about a day and a half, you should see little sprouts breaking through. When they’ve finished sprouting, store them in the refrigerator. Peel and halve the celeriac and shave it paper-thin on a mandoline. Weigh the shaved celeriac, place in a bowl and add 10 percent of its weight in apple cider

vinegar, 5 percent of its weight in good olive oil and 1.5 percent of its weight in sea salt. Mix well, pack the mixture down and let it sit for an hour. To make the gribiche, peel and halve the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Chop each separately and place in a medium bowl along with the shallots, capers, mustard, vinegar, parsley, tarragon and enough olive oil to loosen the mixture (about ½ cup). Season with salt and pepper to taste. To assemble, roll the celeriac slices or arrange them on a plate, sprinkle with the sprouted grains and spoon over the gribiche (or serve on the side). Garnish with fresh parsley or chervil.

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The Mainstay

Pages 34-39 Designer, Douglas Cridland, Cridland Associates, Calgary, cridlandassociates.com. pages 34 -35 Living room Pair of Cristoffer’s, Colin Fisher

Studios, Cathedral City, C.A., colinfisherstudiosonline .com. Art by Otto Rogers, Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto, godardgallery.com. Custom cocktail ottoman, Cridland Associates, Calgary, cridlandassociates.com. 1970s Vintage arm chairs, Vintage lamps, 1stdibs, New York, 1stdibs.com. 1970s Vintage lamp, Habité Décoration, Los Angeles, habitela.com. page 36 Kitchen Arredoluce midcentury pendants, Fat

Chance, Los Angeles, fatchancemodern.com; 1stdibs, New York, 1stdibs.com. Custom barstools, Cridland Associates, Calgary, cridlandassociates.com. Hanstone quartz countertop, Icon Stone and Tile, Calgary, icon stonetile.com. bedroom Custom bed and headboard, Cridland Associates, Calgary, cridlandassociates.com. Maxwell Bates artwork, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, bau-xi.com. Geoff Hunter artwork, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, paulkuhngallery.com. bAThROOm Cabinetry, Northmount Industries, Calgary, 403-243-0200. Graff faucets, Royal Flush, Calgary, royalflushboutique.ca. Vintage Art Deco chair, William Switzer, Vancouver, williamswitzer.com. Vicenza Basketweave accent tile, Stone Tile, com; Stone Tile, Calgary, stone-tile.com. page 37 Living room Picola Papilio chairs, Tufty Time

Cowichan: JoeRos Art and Photography; Mid-Century Modern Home Tour: Martin Knowles; Etsy: PLANTiful

cushions, Tufty Time sectional, MeraCoffee tables, Frank table, Robert Sweep, Calgary, robertsweep.com; Le Belle Arti, Edmonton, lebellearti.com. Ebb Tide area rug, Prestige Mills, Long Island City, N.Y., prestigemills .com. sITTInG ROOm Bridger daybed, Studio B Home, Toronto, studiobhome.com; Aston Arm chairs, Anderson sofa, Shaun Ford and Co., Calgary, shaunfordandco.com. page 39 dining room Oval Cumulus light fixture, Ralph

Pucci, West Hollywood, L.A., ralphpucci.net. Apta Eunice dining chairs, Eileen dining table with Carrara marble top, Robert Sweep, Calgary, robertsweep.com; Le Belle Arti, Edmonton, lebellearti.com.

Perspective Shift

Pages 40-42 Designers, Chad Falkenberg and Kelly Reynolds, Vancouver, falkenreynolds.ca. page 40 stairway Powdered steel pickets, Metal Mart,

Langley, metalmart.ca. Oak handrail, Ted Belcher. Bocci 28.7 Cluster, Housebrand, Calgary, housebrand.ca; Lightform, Edmonton, lightform.ca; M-Concept, Winnipeg, m-concept.ca. Brushed European White Oak Mando, European Touch Hardwood, Vancouver, ethfloors.com. pages 40 & 41 Living room B&B Italia Husk sofa, Le Belle

Arti, Calgary and Edmonton, lebellearti.com. Muuto floor lamp, Kit, Calgary, kitinteriorobjects.com. Gubi Grasshopper floor lamp Inform Interiors, Vancouver, informinteriors.com. Santa and Cole Tripode G5 floor lamp Guillevin International Co, Calgary, guillevin.com. Montigo H83DF fireplace, Hearth Fireplaces Distributors, Calgary, hearthfireplacedepot.com; Fireplace Gallery, Edmonton, fireplacegallery.com; Alsip’s Building Products and Services, Winnipeg, alsips.com. Mutina Bas Relief Code Nero porcelain tile, Stone Tile, Calgary, stone-tile.com. Knoll Risom lounge chair, Kit, Calgary, kitinteriorobjects.com; Inspired Home Interiors, Edmonton, inspiredhomes.ca. Cabinetry, SOMA Millwork and Design, Burnaby, somafurniture.net.

page 42 Kitchen Millwork, Lauten Woodworking, North Vancouver, lautenwoodworking.com. Metal details, Metal Mart, Langley, metalmart.ca. Caesarstone Countertop, M&W Stoneworks, Surrey, mwstoneworks.com. And Tradition Copenhagen pendant, Inform Interiors, Vancouver, informinteriors.com. Fritz Hansen 3187 counter stool, Kit, Calgary, kitinteriorobjects.com. bAThROOm Agape Ottocentto washbasin, Le Belle Arti, Calgary and Edmonton, lebellearti.com. Hand-glazed white ceramic tile, Creekside, Fraser Valley, creeksideinteriors.ca. Calcatta Caldia honed marble, Bordignon, Coquitlam, bordignon.ca pATIO Kettle basket outdoor armchair Inform Interiors, Vancouver, informinteriors.com.B&B Italia Springtime small side table, Gervasoni InOut teak sofa Le Belle Arti, Calgary and Edmonton, lebellearti.com. Marset Santorini lamp Lightform, Vancouver; Calgary; Edmonton, lightform.ca. Steven Pollock custom firepit, Woodstone Design, Vancouver, woodstonedesign.ca.

Complete Package

Pages 44-48 Designer, Clayton Salkeld, Design-Built, Winnipeg, design-built.ca.

DIARY

The coolest events

VICTORIA Savour Cowichan Culinary Festival September 23 to October 3 Consider this festival a veritable crash course in all the food and wine and craft beer suppliers that make up the Cowichan Valley—no wonder it’s 10 days long. savourcowichan.com

page 44 & 45 Kildonan Kitchen and Living Room

Eames Style DSW bar stool, Contemporary Office Interiors, Calgary, coi.bz; Edmonton, contemporary.ab.ca; Winnipeg, contemporary.ab.ca. Custom island, custom planter Design-Built, Winnipeg, design-built.ca. page 48 Bower Kitchen Bocci 14 Series, Housebrand, Calgary, housebrand.ca; LightForm, Edmonton, lightform .ca; M-Concept, Winnipeg, m-concept.ca.

Form and Fusion

Pages 50-52 Architect, Michael Leckie, Leckie Studio, Vancouver, leckiestudio.com.

Finding Balance

Pages 53 & 54 Designer, Steven Pollock, Woodstone Design, Vancouver, woodstonedesign.ca. One to Watch, Autonomous Furniture Collective, Victoria, autonomous furniture.com.

VAnCOuVeR Mid-Century Modern Home Tour September 24 Take a walk through West Coast history as the homeowners of mid-century masterpieces open their doors to the public. vancouverheritagefoundation.org

Bright Ideas

Pages 57 & 58 Designer, Matthew McCormick, Vancouver, matthewmccormick.ca. One to Watch, OneTwoSix Design, Edmonton, onetwosix.design.

Something New

Pages 61 & 62 Designer, Gaby Bayona, Truvelle, Vancouver, truvelle.com. One to Watch, Lara Presber, Calgary, larapresber.com.

Elevating the Everyday

Pages 65 & 66 Designer, Cathy Terepoki, Chiliwack, B.C., cathyterepocki.com. One to Watch, Wendy W. Fok, We-Designs, Vancouver and New York, we-designs.com.

CALGARY Illuminasia Lantern and Garden Festival September 8 to October 16 Ethereal Chinese lanterns light up the night at the Calgary Zoo in downright magical formations of paper flamingos, blooming tulips and softly glowing palms. illuminasiacalgaryzoo.com

Bold & Beautiful

Pages 71 & 72 Builder, Newgrowth Fine Homes, Calgary, newgrowth.ca. Designer, Marvin DeJong, DeJong Design Associates, Calgary, dejongdesign.com.

Trade Secrets

Page 82 Designer, Nam Dang-Mitchell, Nam Dang-Mitchell Design, Calgary, namdangmitchell.com. Chandelier, Chintz and Co., across the West, chintz.com. Sofa, 4-Living, Calgary, 4living.ca. Coffee table, Domaine Furnishings, Calgary, domainefurnishings.com. Fur pouf, Homenature, New York, homenature.com. Standing lamp, Organic Modernism, New York, organicmodernism.com. Kravet wallpaper, DWA Interior Furnishings, Calgary, dwainteriors.com.

eDmOnTOn Etsy Made in Canada Market September 24 Over 140 Edmonton-based vendors will feature their goods at this one-day makers market. Expect pretty prints, custom pottery and handmade leather goods galore. etsy.com

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