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Interior Design Show (IDS), from January 17 to 20 DesignTO, from January 18 to 27 Toronto’s design festival returns with over 100 exhibitions, window displays and back-to-back soirees – more than enough to get you through the darkest days of winter.

Meet local design studio COFO. Helmed by Desmond Chan (left) and Randy Simmen (right), COFO (short for “Cofounders”) introduces Canadian-made home furnishings by emerging designers to the market. The goal is to champion homegrown talent and innovatio

Mississauga’s master-planned M City community is heading in a new direction: up. Architecture firm IBI Group has designed what will become the tallest building in Mississauga for Urban Capital Property Group and Rogers Real Estate Development. Like i

On the fourth floor of one of Uno Prii’s Annex towers – unbeknownst to most, and as often as four afternoons a week – some of the city’s most talented 35-and-unders gather to work, vet each other’s pitches, mend each other’s often-frayed freelance eg

For the owners of this ever-evolving West Bend residence, the only constant is change. The house is the creative hub for Gelareh Saadatpajouh, the founder of Space Animator interior design practice and the co-founder of DeRAIL Platform for Art + Arch

Tom Chung’s most recent offering, a techy table lamp with a trick up its sleeve, began as many great designs do: with a void. In 2016, the Emily Carr grad took on the interior redesign of his parents’ Vancouver home. “I couldn’t find a lamp that woul

Architect, artist and designer Joy Charbonneau knows exactly when she started renovating her house in Trinity Bellwoods. It was the fall of 2009, just after she bought the two-storey, 161-square-metre place with furniture designer and maker Derek McL

GET THE LOOK Artwork 26 rug, call for pricing, at Jan Kath; Random light by Moooi, $2815, at Design Within Reach. While heritage homes have a charm only time can produce, light-filled interiors are not often a key feature of these coveted buildings o

Heading a studio of just eight, Natasha Lebel and Luc Bouliane may seem to hold unlikely seats at the table of notables ushering in a new era of contemporary Canadian design. But then, Lebel & Bouliane is not your average boutique firm. For one thing

Last year, Commute Design opened two of Toronto’s most captivating restaurants – Oretta and Aloette – and they could not be more different. Oretta is a voluminous space on King West, the latest Italian project of restaurateur Salvatore Mele. The six-

For the uninitiated, Headfoneshop is easy to miss. Tucked into a Yonge–Sheppard condo at ground level, it’s worlds away from Yorkville’s tony audiophile boutiques. Here, its neighbours are bustling dim sum joints and mobile accessory depots. But ente

CC’s consultants develop customized organization and storage solutions to maximize the potential of your home’s rooms and closets. Think: Murphy beds, garage workbenches, tailored wardrobes with adjustable shelving, baskets and pullout hampers. For t

A park can be a place where all the people of a city come together. Or it can sort us into different tribes: the dog people, the parents with kids, the tourists snapping photos. At Berczy Park, however, everyone comes together around a grand cast-iro