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The Find: a salt and pepper set with an axe to grind

Doctors recommend sodium-free diets, but these Hatchet S and P shakers we found at Made warrant a second opinion. There is no veneer here, just good Canadian maple and some smart eco-design. The creation process is simple: Sheridan Furniture Studio students Tomas Rojcik, Mark Finnigan and Joseph Bauman throw hatchets (see what they did there?) into wood to create a split, and voila. The trio wanted to create modern objects that produced limited material and energy waste. We’re not sure the novel table toppers will de-thrown our mother’s silver, but for day-to-day use, the Hatchets will do more than slap chop the competition. $45.

Made, 867 Dundas Street West, 416-607-6384 madedesign.ca.

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February 7, 2011 | 4:35 pm

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February 7, 2011 | 10:23 am

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Great Spaces: One woman’s losing battle against handprints and shoe scuffs in an all-white house

By Victoria Webster

(Images: Michael Graydon )

OK, what’s wrong with this picture: white ceilings, white walls, white mouldings, white lacquered floors and two kids under five. Robyn Scott, a 37-year-old former institutional equities trader, freely admits to being a textbook type-A personality, which may explain why she chose such a crazy-making colour scheme. When she and her husband, Steven, the owner and CEO of Access Storage, decided to gut their newly purchased Forest Hill home, her friends tried to dissuade her from the all-white crusade, but Robyn was determined. She wanted a striking backdrop for her eclectic antique furniture.

Robyn approached 10 different contractors before she found an industrial flooring company willing to take on the lacquering job. Most of them balked at the idea of covering the beautiful hardwood. Then she found Michael Pelaic of Paint-Co in Mississauga, who approached the commission as an art project. The process was gruelling: sanding, epoxy primer, more sanding, more primer, then four coats of semi-gloss epoxy coating and two coats of high-gloss polyurethane topcoat—on all three storeys. The job took three weeks to complete.

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Design Scout

January 27, 2011 | 9:37 am

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Q&A with Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson: the design duo talk about their new show, Made at Home

Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson (Image: Stefania Yarhi)

Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson’s annual show Radiant Dark has always been one of our can’t-miss exhibits of design month. This year, they switched gears with a new concept and new name: Made at Home. Even the location is new, with the designers taking over the apartment above their Made Boutique on Dundas West. The pair have set up a livable exhibit featuring products commissioned from their favourite designers. We sat down with Moore and Nicholson in their showroom to talk about design month, Radiant Dark and how Made at Home fits into both.

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Required Reading

January 21, 2010 | 4:17 pm

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Radiant Dark opens Toronto design week with Bacon Savers and felt discs

Kathryn Walter's felt installation

Under the soaring ceilings of Commerce Court West last night, Radiant Dark kicked off Toronto’s first International Design Festival, which runs until Sunday. The exhibit, with creations by over 40 contemporary Canadian designers, is curated by the owners of Made, Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson. Only in its third year, the showcase has already gained a rep for presenting some of Toronto’s best design talent.

For the 2010 event, participants created pieces—chairs, rugs, cutlery—inspired by our relationship with money and the economy, hence the Bay Street locale. To wit, in Kathryn Walter’s Felt Studio installation, spectators can take a felt disc from a pile but are required to leave something behind—whether it’s money, an empty cigarette pack or a bobby pin. In Jill Allan’s clever Bacon Saver piggy banks, penny savers insert coins through the swine’s snout.

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Shop Talk

January 14, 2010 | 10:50 am

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Just Opened: Mjölk brings Scandinavian style to the Junction

Naoto Fukasawa dining table and chairs (Photo by Denise Dias)

With such stores as Post and Beam, Forever Interiors and Smash, the Junction is one of the city’s prime destinations for decorators and home decor junkies, but the addition of the Scandinavian lifestyle shop Mjölk in December is a good reason to revisit.

For the past year, the young owners, John Baker and Juli Daoust, have been sharing their favourite spaces, places and things on their blog, Kitka Design Toronto. But it was the challenge of furnishing their home that inspired them to open the store.

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The Find

August 21, 2009 | 9:15 am

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12 lighting fixtures that will update a room faster than you can say “dimmer switch”

pharmacydesklamp We love this reproduction pharmacy lamp from Crate and Barrel. Toronto antique hunters will know the hard-to-find originals can fetch well over $1,000, but this bronze version is much more affordable at $149. The classic is also versatile—use one as a desk lamp or a pair on bedside tables.

For more great lighting options, view the slide show of our favourite hanging fixtures below.

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Shop Talk

August 11, 2009 | 9:17 am

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Made in Toronto: 15 designs that do us proud

The city is so full of people creating exciting furniture, clothing, beauty products and accessories that the idea of buying local extends beyond the grocery store. Best of all, this stuff is so great that its Toronto roots are only a small part of why we love it. Below, 15 of our favourite pieces from some of the city’s most talented designers.

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July 15, 2009 | 2:56 pm

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Home made: Reinventing a Cabbagetown row house

(Photo by Michael Graydon)

In 2000, Todd Caldwell, a landscape and floral designer, and Shaun Moore, then a furniture design student at Sheridan, started house hunting. They spent a year inspecting more than 100 homes all over the city. In the end, they chose the biggest house on what might be the ugliest street in Cabbagetown. Click here to see how they transformed the crumbling row house.

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