Category Archives: Interior Design Showroom

Living Design: Danielle Trofe Transforms Lighting Through Mushroom Mycelium

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Laura Goldstein

By Laura Goldstein If you watched the award-winning documentary, Fantastic Fungi on Netflix you know about the incredible communicative and medicinal properties of mushrooms and their mycelium roots. Brooklyn-based biodesigner, Danielle Trofe of Danielle Trofe Design has taken this ecological phenomenon … Continue reading →

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IDS Offsite 2021: SwitzerCultCreative Greenscapes the Showroom for ARTISAN and Mary Ratcliffe Collabs

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Laura Goldstein

  By Laura Goldstein Bringing nature indoors takes on a new creative connectedness at SwitzerCultCreative with two wood-inspired furniture brands and the botanical artistry of Burnaby’s Greenscape Design & Decor.  “It’s amazing how greenery really warms things up,” effuses Adam … Continue reading →

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Studio Isac Elam Kaid Explores Amorphous Sculptural Furniture Rooted in Antiquity

Posted on June 29, 2021 by jenniferwosk

by Laura Goldstein Isac Elam Kaid is about to fly to Italy for an intensive art residency outside of Florence. “I realize it’s not the best of times to travel,” he laughs,“ but it’s a fantastic opportunity to study scagliola, a … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 Sparks Creativity & Innovation By Two Canadian Makers

Posted on December 9, 2020 by jenniferwosk

By Laura Goldstein One of the few positive repercussions of the 2020 pandemic has been a surge in artistic creativity around the world and Canadian furniture makers are no exception. Left to their own devices, often in lockdown situations, makers’ productivity … Continue reading →

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Response to the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Renee

We hope that you, your loved ones and those around you are safe and in good health. Effective today, March 16, 2020 our showroom will be temporarily closed in order to help slow the transmission of the COVID-19 virus except … Continue reading →

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Simon Johns: Living Design Through Nature

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Renee

By Laura Goldstein If furniture designer, Simon Johns ever decides to retire, he can convert his rustic home and studio outbuilding near the shores of the picturesque Missisquoi River in Southern Quebec, into a charming B&B (filled with his nature-inspired … Continue reading →

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SkLO Studio: Seeing Sculpture In A New Light

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Renee

By Laura Goldstein As graceful as a multi-tiered necklace, orbs of suspended light compose a chandelier’s planetary system of handblown Czech glass. And in a single lighting pendant, an abstract drop of dew is captured in multiple layers when the … Continue reading →

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ARTISAN: “We Have Known Wood Our Entire Lives, From the Forest We Played In As Children”- Fadil Ćostović, Co-Founder

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Renee

By Laura Goldstein Many entrepreneurial partnerships seem to begin serendipitously. Fadil Ćostović, a craftsman with a well-established family wood production business for over 60 years in Tešanj, Bosnia was constructing furniture and all the wood interiors for a summer house owned … Continue reading →

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ZANAT Goes Back To The Future Producing Contemporary Furniture With Historical Wood Carving Techniques

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Renee

By Laura Goldstein “There’s an emotional appeal to our brand and not just because our family has been producing hand-carved furniture since 1919,” says Orhan Niksic CEO and ZANAT co-founder, from his factory/showroom in Konjic, Bosnia. A former senior economist … Continue reading →

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Meet the Clair End Table from Autonomous Furniture

Posted on August 8, 2019 by jenniferwosk

Introducing ‘Clair’, she’s light and nimble but satisfyingly stable. A bit of edge but capable of handling the daily grind. Oh, and she’s gorgeous. Shown in scrumptious black walnut sporting an acrylic base. Tailored heights available upon request, the Clair … Continue reading →

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