DESIGNLINES

DESIGNLINES is Toronto’s ultimate guide to contemporary design. Four times a year, we review top furniture showrooms and decor shops, along with stylish restaurants, new architectural projects and cutting-edge art galleries. Each issue is packed with entertaining news on local designers, the latest trends and ideas for urban living.

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In Praise of Small Spaces

Contributors • Our team takes on the city’s small spaces

One Thing • A lighting product by Jeff Goodman Studio worth fantasizing about

Brand New to TO • Five labels that have found new homes in our fair city

Coffee with Designers • Over coffee, life imitates design

Fresh Facade Forward • An architect’s home shows that form is function

Space We Love • The making of a modern-day toy workshop

Out with the Cold • It’s spring, so Torontonians are no longer stuck sitting around inside, waiting for warmer weather. Now we can (fashionably) sit around outside

Hot Ticket • Fun and mind-expanding things to do this season

Tiles with Wiles • These monochrome treatments are full of character

Small and Mighty • Despite their scaled-back stature, these appliances pack outsized utility

From Lagos with Love • Inside the West Africa–inspired forms of Studio Lani

9,000 Years Young • How a local brand is using good design to modernize mead

Top Shelf • Locally distilled spirits that give us something to toast

Gusto 501 • After 18 months of construction, Gusto’s East End outpost is worth the wait

Crosstown Connection • After almost a decade of construction, Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT is – fingers crossed – almost complete. Set to open in 2022, the light transit line will transform Eglinton Avenue into a key transit corridor. Translation? Development, and plenty of it. While Yonge and Eg remains perpetually awash in sky-high construction cranes, the 25-station Crosstown is already proving a catalyst for change along the entirety of its 19-kilometre span

In the Green • Landscape designers coax lush oases from modest urban plots

Home to Roost • Two creatives turn an unlivable condo into a warm, welcoming nest

Semi Suite • This cleverly stacked semi adds much-needed density (and rental housing) to its East End neighbourhood

Playful Perspective • Creative Union Network embraces the quirks of a loft with an unusual floorplan

White Heat • Johnson Chou and Silke Stadtmueller’s Woodbine Heights home is a visual marvel, despite a near-total absence of colour

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Vintage & Reclaimed Furniture

Wallcoverings & Paint

Windows, Doors & Fireplaces

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