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32 IT’S A FLAT WORLD AFTER ALL Snicker all you want at the cosmological doctrines of ancient societies who believed that the world was flat, but after seeing these exciting new flooring products, you may want to reconsider their philosophies.

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41 GET BIG, GET SMALL OR GO RAW Roland Rom Colthoff practices art for his architecture business’s sake. By David Lasker

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE ARIDO’s ROI initiative harnesses volunteer power to revamp Toronto’s Variety Village. By Leslie C. Smith

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16 CAUGHT OUR EYE 19 SEEN Highlights and insights from IDS2016 in Toronto,

Feria Habitat Valencia in Valencia, Spain; and Design Days Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

SCENE OVER & OUT Maserati has collaborated with a legendary Italian fashion brand to create an interiors package that is specially outfitted and woven, much like a fine Italian suit.

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COVER – Roland Rom Colthoff, founder and principal at RAW Design, in the bones of the firm’s current project under construction in downtown Toronto. Photo by Thomas Bollmann.

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In the May-June issue we visit the Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at York University in Toronto, designed by ZAS Architects, which rethinks campus hierarchy to foster modern ways of learning.

Classical Gas Bulthaup Vancouver recently re-opened their showroom in a Gastown district heritage building that was originally the city’s very first Royal Bank, thanks to a complete renovation

by Inform Projects Partnership.

Looking up In a newly built office in Milton, Ont., Rockfon has brought together four divisions in a single building built largely with their own ceiling systems.

Welcome to the neighbourhood New to the furniture design world, Steel by Göhlin, a Swedish company based in Gnosjö, has debuted its first piece, appropriately named Chair No 1.

Family Affair The sister and brother team behind Periphere and Domison have launched a new brand encapsulating their vision of the future of furniture design, called élément de base (EDB).

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A boxing gym. A car dealership. A Polish bakery. A parking lot. A storage locker. Who knew they could all make for great party locations? Well, apparently the clever, fun-loving folks at RAW Design did, and thank the heavens for them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------To be fair, I’ve got nothing against the more typical client-andfriends-appreciation fête, usually held in a firm’s office or signature project. Free food and booze – what’s not to love! But to my mind, if your stock-in-trade is design, then you should look at every event as an opportunity to show off your skills and creativity, which RAW has been doing wonderfully for the last eight summers. - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Each for different reasons, the gamut of single-named events all stand out in my mind. But the one that pops up a lot during conversations is Rising, when the firm toasted (ahem) the design community back in 2011 in one of Toronto’s oldest operational bread factories, and then turned the space on its ear by exploring interactive design

technology. “One aspect of our business that we are particularly fascinated by is extending the city,” said RAW founder Roland Rom Colthoff, at the time. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------This is a firm that has been continually pursuing that philosophy, as evidenced by their skyline-punching contributions to Toronto’s famously expanding condo scene, with projects such as Cube, Eleven Superior, Motif Lofts, Bellefair Kew Beach Residences, Cabin and more. So not surprisingly, their not-to-be-missed summer events push those same boundaries. In 2013 it was a people-powered installation on top of a parkade (Energy), celebrating the notion that human ideas and power are behind the transformation of cities; in 2014 it was an exploration of basic building materials such as wood, masonry, glass, metals and even fabrics (Material) in an industrial turn of the century brick building turned storage facility; and last summer transforming a derelict building on Toronto’s waterfront into a 30,000-sq.-ft. pop-up gallery (Canvas), with the building itself becoming a forced nexus of art and architecture. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The architecture and design community is notoriously hard to ‘wow,’ but RAW’s consistently provocative events should not only stimulate their senses, but also challenge other firms to put more design effort into anything they want us to “save the date” for. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------•

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caught our eye Pop Goes Your Head English rock trio Muse turned to Montreal-based Moment Factory to create the visual content and interactive elements of the group’s 2015-16 Drones World Tour. Performing “in the round,” a massive 3D tracking system featuring 38 infrared cameras followed them, projecting their movements onto screens amplified by custombuilt particle, distortion, and mosaic effects. www.momentfactory.com

Most Minimal Los Angeles-based design studio ENSSO has unveiled the Pen Uno. Designed to be beautiful to both hold and behold, at only 5.3mm in diameter it is also (claims the designers) one of the slimmest pens ever manufactured. www.ensso.com

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A Welcome Table Alessi’s Spring/Summer 2016 Collection sees the venerable Italian housewares brand continuing its partnerships with international architects David Chipperfield, UN Studio, and Michele De Lucchi. Featuring products by new collaborators and established designers, for example Broken Bowl, by Maximilian Schmahl (shown), the new collection celebrates with variety and precision Alessi’s seminal role as a research lab in the applied arts. www.alessi.com

Lose Yourself Beijing-based multidisciplinary artist Song Dong had his Canadian debut with Wisdom of the Poor: Communal Courtyard, an installation of 100 vintage Chinese wardrobe doors that transformed an AGO gallery into a series of corridors and small rooms reminiscent of Beijing’s traditional communal living spaces. www.ago.net

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Lasting impressions from Toronto’s premier design exhibition As is always the case, we liked a lot of what we saw at the annual Interior Design Show (IDS). Held in January at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the exhibition boasted the latest in home décor and materials, intriguing showcases, plus a plethora of guest speakers.

Here’s a sampling of items that caught our eye. - - - - - ---------------------------------------• Tall Boy Toronto’s Tahir Mahmood Design offers the shapely Bani Thani Dresser, in walnut. This dainty, tapered case of drawers with legs, out-to-there topped by an ovoid mirror, would easily fit into any corner of one of today’s tiny urban condos.

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Magic Carpet A highlight of any IDS is viewing the latest carpets from German genius Jan Kath. This year is special, however, owing to the acclaimed designer striking out on his own in Canada, partnering with Vancouver representative Jenni Finlay. And this year’s most desirable Kath carpet? Kudos to his Artwork 8 Boro 11 rug, in which snippets of cream-coloured Damascene patterning partially overlay a Japanese-style patchwork in muted grey-brown. One might well hesitate to step on such a symphony of restrained, painterly elegance.

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Giddy-up Just when it feels as if everything that can possibly be done to bathrooms has been done, along comes Italy’s Nespoli e Novara and its whimsical wooden washstand built like a horse. Sold in North America through Graff Faucets, Milwaukee, the Dressage stand consists of a freestanding wooden beam with twin crossed legs at either end made in solid tulip poplar or walnut.

Available in either 40-inch and 62-inch lengths, this low-profile unit can be customized with one’s choice of sinks, trays, swivel mirrors and storage cabinets – all carried on its back like riders and their equipage.

A charming blend of style, function, and just plain fun.

Booming Sales A shout-out to IDS for its recent addition of Designboom Mart, a sales showcase for young Canadian designers who, like all artists, deserve better recognition and remuneration for their efforts. We’d like to single out Carineh Babayan, of Toronto’s CB1969, for her take on diffused-light lampshades. Looking like objects crafted by an extremely clever summer camper, each shade is cut from stiff paper or thin walnut veneer. Their whip-stitched tops and slashed, pop-out sides that allow for patterned diffusion push these modest lampshades into the décor limelight.

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Square Tomato Oliver Drake, principal of Drake Wood Design, out of Wakefield, Que., painted his Crab-legged Console in a high-glass hue he terms “embarrassed tomato,” but it also shows hand-hewn walnut legs and cheeky off-centre handles.

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The Wood Standard A little old-fashioned wooden warmth can do so much for modern interiors, a fact not lost on IDS exhibitors and visitors. This year’s trend in wood, according to most of the show’s furnishing displays, is walnut. From New York State’s Miles & May comes a pair of handsome cabinets. The A2-5 Drawer (shown) boasts a natural walnut exterior with ghosted walnut fronts and offset matteblack aluminum hardware. The Haven Dresser features walnut drawers with decorative visible box-joins and low-profile aluminum pulls, embraced by a steel shell in white, black, or whatever colour you want to choose.

Plus-sized Speaking of small spaces, we like the way Addition modular tables and planters

by Texas’s Garman Furniture are capable of nestling into even the most restricted living room or balcony, providing both a functional and contemplative air. Each low table is shaped like a plus sign, allowing it to be co-joined in a variety of configurations. The bases are made from copper plate or powder-coated steel in any colour; the interchangeable magnetized table tops come in walnut, cork, resin composite and white marble, among other materials. For outdoor use, durable Ipe wood and teak are recommended.

This is Huge Sometimes trends are writ large; at other times, they can be small but telling. At first glance, the concept kitchen created by Toronto’s Burdifilek for Aya Kitchen’s Avani line amazed with its sheer size and magnificence. The bi-level cooking island and cantilevered eating area stretched a full 16 feet. Adorned in bevelled-edge, white marble veneer, it featured an integrated sink as well as gas burners set directly onto the stone. Flanked by an open shelving unit and sleek closed cupboards pushing up to an imaginary 12-foot ceiling, this kitchen appeared the perfect match for any display of culinary artistry. But it seemed that we hadn’t even scratched the surface. Those tall cupboards were covered in Fenix brand Nano Tech Matt (NTM), a laminate proven in Europe over the past three years and new to North America last year. Anti-bacterial, heat- and fingerprint-resistant, this material is capable of erasing surface scratches on an atomic and molecular level. The self-healing process occurs within 24 hours if the material is left to its own devices, or nearly instantaneously if it is exposed to heat, say, from an iron or hair-dryer. We’ve heard good things come in small packages – but atom-sized?

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With Spain’s economy still feeling Great Recession aftershocks, trade shows there are looking to strengthen their positions through partnerships, such as Feria Habitat Valencia connecting again with Cevisama - Espacio Cocina (Kitchen Corner) and FIMMA – Maderalia.

Nevertheless, in early February the esteemed furnishings show was able to bring together an impressive product range.

Circles in squares Antoniolupi was all about sinks at this fair, showcasing the Fusto rectangular freestanding sink designed by Nevio Tellatin, with its soft and roundish internal bowl and handy lateral towel rail; and the Simplo family of five top-mount sinks and one freestanding, designed

by Mario Ferrarini. Both products are made from the company’s new favourite material, Flumood. www.antoniolupi.it

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Let it go The eye-catching Frozen family of outdoor furniture designed by Matteo Ragni and Maurizio Prina for Italian manufacturer Plust includes extruded polyethylene seating and table pieces that can light up the night in a dazzling array of colours, or just keep it cool in soft white. www.plust.com

Water and light Battigia is a new Corian sink designed by Michel Boucquillon for Antoniolupi that is inserted into the wall and completely hidden, essentially making the wall a container that houses the sink. A simple sheet of glass, almost invisible, is the only element that protrudes, with white and blue LED lighting and tap incorporated in the structure. www.antoniolupi.it

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Chipping in e15 continues its collaboration with British architect David Chipperfield, and showed examples such as the solid wood coffee table Leighton and sideboard Drayton, extensions of a product family which debuted during Milan Design Week 2015. Also on show was the solid marble Enoki Migoto side tables and Salina, a series of stoneware inspired by traditional pottery from the Frankfurt region. www.e15.com

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In the round Spain is the place to go for outdoor furniture, and the venerable Iberian peninsula stalwart Point didn’t disappoint: an update on the collection Round, designed by Francesc Rifé, includes Shintotex, a synthetic fiber, combined with natural teak, and now available in ivory white. www.point1920.com

Looking forward by looking back Slovenian furniture company Rex Kralj began 2016 with a new catalogue that highlights the company’s 60-year design heritage, including re-issues of the Rex and its variations, which date back to 1956. These light-weight folding chairs use a combination of moulded plywood and routed slots to reduce weight. www.rex-kralj.com

Your work cradle Alicante, Spain-based Actiu, a company which manufactures its own office and contract furniture, came to Feria Habitat Valencia with their new office chair TNK Flex. Designed by Alegre Industrial Studio, it goes to great design lengths to meet the ergonomic needs of the user. www.actiu.com Dance with the sun The Voltasol rolling flowerpot, designed by Andorra-based Studio BAG Disseny, was a 2015 Red Dot Award winner and is a whimsical device specially designed to move according to the trajectory of the sun (which explains its particular inclination) in order to promote the movement of plants and help them grow better. www.bagdisseny.com

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Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and in partnership with the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Design Days Dubai was back for its fifth edition in mid-March, featuring over 40 exhibitors and 750 design works from 180 designers representing 35 countries. The Middle East and South Asia’s only collectable design fair welcomed more than 13,500 visitors with strong sales reported from exhibiting galleries and solo designers.

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Camp Design Gallery First-time attendees to the show, Milanbased Camp Design Gallery brought captivating works by Veronica Todisco and Analogia Project, including PantheOn/PantheOff, a lamp inspired

by Rome’s famed Pantheon.

Alma de Luce The Enxoval cabinet is luxe to the max: the exterior is Pearl Gray Corian, and manually perforated with handcrafted inlay of 36,123 Amethyst-coloured Swarovski crystals.

The interior is coated with Palissandro wood, and the drawer’s handles are made of handcrafted gold leaf.

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Binôme Travelling all the way from a small workshop in France’s Burgundy valley, Binôme came to display a broad range of offerings, all the brainchildren of in-house designers Ingrid Michel and Frédéric Pain. They included the Acari armchair, Fluide chandelier, and Hexagone coffee table (all shown).

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seen Loulwa Al Radwan This interior designer from Kuwait debuted her own line of furniture at the show, including the Peacock, which includes a bookshelf (shown), a mirror and a table all made from Carrara marble and brass inspired from the beauty of peacock feathers.

IBDAA My Emirates is a bookshelf modeled on an extract of a map of the United Arab Emirates, and is the first product

by IBDAA (an Arabic word for “creativity”), an online furniture platform based in Dubai, co-founded by Marwa Al Shamry and Christelle Bitar.

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M.A.D. Gallery Founded in 2011, MB&F M.A.D. Gallery can look almost like the laboratory of a (ahem) mad scientist.

Among the kinetic creations was Machine Lights by Berlin-based artist Frank Buchwald, which the artist has been experimenting with and evolving for the past decade; and Road Machine, a vintage 1939 Harley Davidson flathead engine by Japanese artist Chicara Nagata, embellished with over 500 components he manufactured himself.

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Dutch Creative Industries As the name implies, DCI is a partnership of several Dutch creative industry companies with the Dutch government to expand Dutch design in the Middle East. Among the companies at the show was Judy Straten Art-Design, displaying headturning cabinets: the Cutted Cabinet designed by Studio Rolf.fr; and the oak veneer Mr. Knox by Stephan Siepermann.

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by Brazilian designer Guto Requena for Paris-based Gallery S.Bensimon is a three-piece collection created using grass that grows with a golden hue harvested from the Amazon.

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It’s a flat world after all Snicker all you want at the cosmological doctrines of ancient societies who believed that the world was flat, but after seeing these exciting new flooring products, you may want to reconsider their philosophies.

Energico in stone Opus, designed by Raffaello Galiotto for Italian industrial stone firm Lithos Design, consistently pushes the envelope when it comes to marble flooring optics, and with the new Tangram series ups the ante yet again.

Broken down shapes focusing on the contrast between delicate shades of colour and bolder colourful brush-strokes define this series and challenge the eye. www.lithosdesign.com CANADIAN INTERIORS 3/4 2016

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Light Touch Two new products, Irish Cream (shown) and Taj Mahal, have been added this year in Mercier’s Nature Collection. These white-textured floors, marked by the passage of time, are perfect for creating that modern industrial look but with a touch of softness. www.mercierwoodflooring.com

Get grounded Minerality, a new flooring system by Johnsonite, brings linear and striated visuals to rubber tiles and planks reminiscent of the natural grain of wood and stone materials, and is ideal for environments like healthcare or retail where slip resistance and shock-absorbing qualities are desired.

Walking on rainbows The new Eternal collection from Forbo Flooring Systems utilizes some of the most advanced digital printing technology, resulting in striking visuals. Subtle colour gradients can run along the full length of a roll with no pattern repeat over a 10 metre length, and custom tailoring can put almost anything in your mind onto the floor. www.

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Big Guns Mirage has expanded their game– literally – by introducing new 7¾” plank widths in its Imagine, Flair, and Sweet Memories hardwood flooring collections. Available in lengths of up to 82”, the planks still carry natural characteristics unique to wood, such as milling marks, open and closed knots, mineral streaks, cracks, surface holes, and hairline cracks. www.miragefloors.com Selling Seashells Canadian manufacturer Lauzon Flooring wants you to think peaceful, rippled sandy beaches when you look at its new hardwood flooring line, called Atlantis, which attempts to replicate the seashore in colour, tone and texture.

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Squaring off American Biltrite has introduced 18”x18” tiles to its TecCare Floating Floor System, which was previously only available in planks. The line will now include a palette of four classic and contemporary tile patterns for a total of 16 new colours, and still use the “floor in a box” concept combining a recycled underlayment along with “peel and stick” tiles in one carton.

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Prêt-à-porter Kumo, which means “cloud” in Japanese, is a new flat weave rug collection designed by mist-o, the Italian-Japanese duo of Tommaso Nani and Noa Ikeuchi in collaboration with Italian brand Living Divani. It takes inspiration from the fabrics used for kimono, and attempts to bring the lightness and simplicity of a pattern that is usually worn to one now underfoot.

What do you see? Inspired by Rorschach’s psychological testing method, the Inkblot collection

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Willkommen in Kanada Bespoke German flooring manufacturer Schotten & Hansen has finally brought their wood plank products to Canada after 30 years of servicing the European market. Their 16” boards are wire-brushed, hand-planed and vacuum dried, making them extremely stable. Available in Toronto from Lovewood. www.lovewood.ca

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To cite an oft-quoted business mantra, “Get big, get small or go home.” So what’s a midsized architecture firm to do? Roland Rom Colthoff, director and owner of seven-year-old sole proprietorship RAW Design (the acronym stands for Roland’s Architectural Workshop), had long pondered how to get his firm noticed. - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------“We’re known as the mid-rise guys,” the architect, clad in designer black, said during a recent interview at his 32-person firm’s downtown Toronto office. “Most of our work is mixed-use in the urban setting. We’re pegged at that.” Indeed, his firm’s condo designs, more imaginative than most, often grace the weekend newspaper real estate sections. - - - - - -------------------------------------------------However, he added wistfully, “We think it would be nice to be known for other things as well. It’s very difficult to break into institutional [work] because you have to show how many of whatever it is you’ve done in the last five years and we’ve done zero. The [same big firms] just keep getting all that work and we have no entrée to it. - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------“We had to come at it from another direction. That was the idea for entering competitions and then starting our own. We find competitions engaging, exciting and great for the staff. Our art installations also fell out of this desire to do different things in the office and have a variety of scales to work at. We don’t want people to come here and say, ’I don’t want to work here because all you do is condos.’” - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------In 2014, RAW won an international competition to create an installation they dubbed Prismatica for Luminothérapie, a winter exhibition of interactive public art in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles cultural district. They erected 50 two-metre-tall illuminated acrylic prisms coated with dichroic film, which refracts light so that the prisms change colours and shimmer as one moves, while splashing spectral ribbons onto the plaza’s snow-white backdrop. The triple-pane construction

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A 2,000-sq.-ft. canvas of Toronto’s cityscape was suspended from a crane outside the building, while within, artists covered floors, windows and walls with compositions (using paint supplied by Benjamin Moore) meant to evoke both the waterfront’s future and reflect on a past of dated nightclubs, factories, and industrial buildings. Provoking guests to interact with the art, installations included a playful paint gun wall, oversized wall puzzle and paint-by-numbers. An adjacent dark room was transformed into an eerie maze of installations illuminated by wall projections.

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tower competition in downtown Toronto with three other firms. During the presentation, the conversation wandered to Montreal, where they [the judges] had seen Prismatica. They were all over it, saying how cool it was. Prismatica certainly helped us win that competition.” - - - -------------------------------------------------Likewise, Hendershott allowed, “The City of Mississauga came to us after our Winter Stations competition last year, inviting us to take part in a competition for public art in the forecourt of a new community centre.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------RAW is so smitten with public-art competitions that for two years it has hosted its very own Winter Stations international design competition, at its own expense (with funding from developer-client friends). The goal is to transform and brighten up lifeguard stations at eastern Toronto’s Beaches district that would otherwise languish desolate and abandoned, except for local dog walkers. This year’s theme, Freeze/ Thaw, reflecting the changing seasons while the installations are in place, drew nearly 400 international entries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Colthoff skilfully harvests the buzz-factor of installation art, applied on a more informal basis and shorter time scale, at each summer’s

propagates infinite internal reflections, further mesmerizing visitors as they gaze at the prisms and spin them on their low-friction bearings. -------------------------------------------------The $250,000 budget allowed RAW to hire a structural engineer to ensure that the prisms would withstand gale-force (87 kilometers per hour) winds. “We needed close to 1,900 pounds of concrete to hold these things down,” added staff architect Aaron Hendershott. “We use these installations as an opportunity to do research on unconventional materials or methods of fabrication that we don’t normally use when we’re doing permanent buildings.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The preparation required to win such public-art competitions has helped RAW win more bread-and-butter work. “The discipline that goes into convincing a jury that ours is the right entry helps us in presenting our architecture,” Colthoff said. “Almost every week there is a meeting where I have to present the ideas for our building. The more clearly we can do that, the better off we are.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Then there are those glorious serendipitous moments when a RAW public-art installation raises RAW’s profile among the movers and shakers. Colthoff recalled, “We were just short-listed for a very major

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This spread Visitors wandered through a maze of storage units at Planet Storage, just off the rail path in The Junction, to locker 3202 where they discovered Material, a playground of interactive pieces designed and built by RAW using basic building materials such as wood, masonry, glass, metals and even fabrics.

For example, a plywood house frame hung from the ceiling, and common 2x4 framing was reconfigured as a spiraling centrepiece structure.

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-------------------------------------------------The parties take place in a big black-box space, such as an empty storage locker (as was the case for 2014’s Material). As Colthoff points out, “When you have these diverse spaces, you need surfaces for people to put their drink or to sit down. We always have to create the furniture that goes into it.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Thus do the summer parties give staff yet another venue to exercise their creativity. When the party took place on the roof of a parking garage (2013’s Energy), the roof’s five per cent slope was the stimulus to build a dual-use piece of furniture evoking a railway truss that functioned as a flat surface at one end for guests to sit on and a counterheight bar area at the other end. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------And who knows? Does any manufacturer offer a product like the clever ganged yin-yang table-bench—it’s the same unit, right-side-up and then turned upside-down—that sprawled across the RAW Canvas party floor? Yoo-hoo, Teknion, Haworth, Knoll. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • — more canadianinteriors.com

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social event. RAW’s yearly summer party is a high point of the A&D social calendar. True, it functions as that familiar fixture, the clientappreciation party, “But who wants to have just a bunch of guys in suits standing around?” he asks. Part hipster rave and Sixties happening, the events showcase something provocative from a design perspective. The past three years’ themes, for instance, were Energy, Material and Canvas respectively. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------So in lieu of the proverbial bunch of guys in suits, some of the approximately 1,500 guests at RAW Canvas donned Tyvek suits and shot paintfilled squirt guns at each other to create ad hoc Jackson Pollock masterpieces on the walls and floor of an industrial space that is the future site of Daniels Corporation’s new mixed-use project City of the Arts. - - - - -------------------------------------------------Grander gestures included a crane-suspended, 50-foot-square canvas by a local graffiti artist depicting the Toronto skyline; a sapphire-blue labyrinth; and murals—including one with figures and colours charmingly reminiscent of Matisse’s iconic The Dance—painted before the event by 50 invited artists. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Opposite: RAW transformed Mississauga’s waterfront trail with a temporary public art installation that was part of the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games Torch Relay. Art of Sport: Fitness Follies included three pieces: Synchronicity, Colosseum and Velocity (shown), each designed to engage the body and test one’s balance, agility and perception. Above: The centrepiece of Energy was teams of triathletes powering MonkeyLectric animated bike wheels that lit up the night with a graphic light show provided by Eurolite.

Left: Prismatica was an immersive installation comprised of 50 pivoting prisms that transformed the Place des Festivals into a giant kaleidoscope through which visitors could observe the Quartier des Spectacles through a new lens.

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It takes a village ARIDO’s ROI initiative harnesses

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Three years ago, the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) decided to get into charity in a big way. It launched the ROI Initiative – short for “Renew, Originate, Implement” – intended to bring design into the lives of people who need it the most. -------------------------------------------------The endeavour is 100 per cent volunteer driven. ARIDO members, led by executive director and registrar Sharon Portelli, form a planning committee that conducts site visits to decide which proposed project would make the best fit for the year. They then ask for volunteers to fill a design committee, which plans the project, and as well contact suppliers for donations of goods and services. ROI’s first venture was the renovation of Toronto’s CAMH Archway Clinic, which assists people experiencing mental health issues. In 2014, it was Fife House, a service portal for housing and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater Toronto Area. Last year, just in time to welcome Parapan Am athletes to its training facility, it was Variety Village’s turn. Located in Toronto’s east end, Variety Village has been providing fitness, recreation and life-skills training for both the able-bodied and people with physical and mental challenges, since 1948. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Elaine Teo-Mak, interior designer, planning and design at Sun Life Financial, and a member of the design committee that also included Deborah Sperry, Teresa Sorksa and Sabrina Carinci, describes the experience: “We had a really old space to work with that hadn’t changed for about 30 years. There wasn’t enough room to move around in main reception, where wheelchairs and walkers could create real congestion. The waiting area was full of old, donated furniture that was breaking down, the floor needed to be replaced, and their coffee kiosk was in terrible shape.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Suppliers came through with the necessary elements: Armstrong and Division 9 donated durable, non-skid flooring, installed by Sands Limited. Haworth/Brigholme; Teknion and Steelcase, along with Spec, Schoolhouse Products, Human Scale and Envirotech, provided the furnishings. PS Agencies and Clarus Glassboards gave the reception desk its back glass; lighting came courtesy of TPL; Benjamin Moore CANADIAN INTERIORS 3/4 2016

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fit, this was their second time around with the Initiative). “We thought it a very good way to give back. From a business perspective, I liked that ARIDO allows people the opportunity to put their daily working relationships towards something so worthwhile.” - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------DPI’s Alexander Mossman, was most deeply involved in the endeavour, both as project construction manager and because he grew up using the facility, along with his sister, who has Down’s Syndrome. “It was dear to my heart – kind of a full-circle experience. When you’re young and just starting out in this business, you sometimes wonder if

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Herman Miller’s We Care

Herman Miller once again hosted the annual We Care events, held across North America for disadvantaged children. This year’s Toronto edition was held at University Settlement, a community-based social services centre, where 200 children were entertained by seven design firms: Cannon Design; Dialog; figure3; Gensler; HOK; Stantec; and Straticom. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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DX Dinner by Design

For the second year, Monogram, Caesarstone and the Design Exchange teamed up on the DX Trading Floor to present Dinner by Design, featuring dining installations by notable Toronto design firms. On this year’s roster were architectsAlliance; Ashley Botten; Bortolotto; Commute Design; The Design Agency; Gensler; Guido Costantino; Jenny Francis; Joel Loblaw; Moriyama & Teshima Architects; and Parker Barrow, all in support of AIDS hospice Casey House. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

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5—Project team members at landscape design firm Joel Loblaw. Rear: life partners Tyler Welwood and Martin Walsh, consultant and owner, respectively, at Queen Landscaping; Steve and Jack Gregory, setup and lumberjacks. Front: designer Nicole Gregory and partners Joel Loblaw and Lindsy Gregory, and designer Michelle Loblaw. 6—At the Jenny Francis booth: The eponymous Jenny with James Elliott, business development at booth builder Gillanders Construction.

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Maserati has collaborated with a legendary fashion brand to create an interiors package that is specially outfitted and woven, much like a fine Italian suit.

Motoring à la mode

By Leslie C. Smith

Pairing industrial with fashion design is not a new thing. Particularly when it comes to cars, cross-pollination of brand images tends to be a win-win thing. Perry Ellis and Tommy Hilfiger, to name just two fashion entities, have had their imprimaturs stamped on American motor vehicles in the past. But when you’re talking Italian, whether it’s cars or clothing, the level of style, and consequently status, rises considerably.

-------------------------------------------------When you hear the hallowed names Maserati and Zegna brought together in one breath, as they were at this February’s Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, you simply have to take a look. The car-maker debuted its interior package partnership with the fashion house for the 2016 model year. At present, Zegna Edition interiors are available just in the sport sedan models Ghibli and Quattroporte; later on, they are slated to roll out across the complete Maserati product line. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------The exclusive, custom-option interiors come in three colour groupings. All feature ornamental headrest stitching and meld fine-grain leather trim with 100 per cent natural Mulberry silk inserts on the seats, door panels, roof lining, sunshades and ceiling light fixture.

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-------------------------------------------------A deceptively strong fibre with a sensuous hand, silk has for centuries denoted the highest luxury; Mulberry silk, originally from China, is considered the best of the best. Indeed, it was partly to find this fabled fabric that spurred Marco Polo to start his trek eastward in the late 13th century. It is certainly a fabric that Ermenegildo Zegna, renowned for sourcing top-quality materials, would have used often during his lifetime. After his death in 1966, Zegna’s name lived on in the family-run menswear collection that, like Maserati, is exported around the world.

-------------------------------------------------The car company itself was family owned by brothers Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati for decades, beginning in 1914 (it now belongs to the Italian-American giant, Fiat Chrysler). From the first, the brand specialized in fast, elegant cars equally at home on the racetrack and the road. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------Italian design meets Italian design, representing the ultimate in chic, timelessly sleek. The blend of these two, oh-so-stylish brands assuredly speaks to the better part of our transportation aspirations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • — more canadianinteriors.com

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Š 2016 All Rights Reserved. Global Design Center 16.0033 River seating shown with Allante, Bisque (A42E) seats and Momentum Odyssey, Rue (OD53) backs. River tables are shown in White Chocolate (WHC) with Tungsten (TUN) bases.

a quiet harbor Bring people together in a place where ideas, insight and inspiration can be shared. River supports an endless array of curvilinear and rectilinear configurations with three back heights and benches. Seating and tables can be specified with power and USB outlets for mobile devices. An RIVER SEATING SERIES.

optional HT construction lets River overachieve in high traffic, high demand environments such as airports and universities.

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