Dollars to Doughnuts The haptic experience of making and eating doughnuts inspired Kilogram Studio in their transformation of a car garage. CANADIAN INTERIORS 5/6 2023
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By Peter Sobchak Photos by Scott Norsworthy
Biting into a doughnut is an ephemeral experience, amplified by tiny details like texture, temperature and decoration. While Torontobased COPS Doughnuts see themselves not as a doughnut shop but as “a creative studio that happens to sell doughnuts,” they still needed a place from which to sell. So when approached to design such a space “we asked ourselves what setting would prepare you for that exquisite moment of a first bite?” says Kfir Gluzberg, founder and principal at Kilogram Studio. The answer was to look at building materials the way a baker looks at ingredients. In Glaze, visitors are surrounded by textures frozen in time. Creaminess is expressed through concrete especially in joints around the service counter “where float spreads stucco and pressure extrudes mortar, like icing,” says Gluzberg. Gloss is represented in the exposed aggregate of the polished floors, stainless steel, rippled glass, shadows cast by window muntins and swirly handles on the doors.
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Colour was also an important detail, as COPS is known for their proprietary drizzled glazes that change on a weekly basis. Entering Glaze, one’s gaze is drawn to colourful and bright packaging, the
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