Scavolini soirée Scavolini hosted the North American launch of its new Mia kitchen design at their Castlefield Avenue showroom in north Toronto. 1—Scavolini’s Anna Urbaniak, design manager; Ovidiu Dumitriu, manager of installations, and his wife, Cornelia Dumitriu, accountant; spouses Luiza Alexa, VP and Horia Gruia, president Scavolini Toronto; Pesaro, Italy-based Gian Marco Scavolini, VP board of directors (and son of the company founder); and Francesco Farina, CEO, Scavolini USA. 2—From Moss & Lam studio: Michael Sproule, project manager; Jamie Stagnitta, operations director; Deborah Moss, founder; and Anna Guidoccio, designer. 3—Bruno Billio, artist-in-residence at the Gladstone Hotel; and Philippe Burnet, producer at TV production house Machine Gum Productions. 4—Standing behind their Gaggenau kitchen installation: Stefan Jones, district sales manager; Andrew Abrahamse, Ontario regional sales manager; and Steve Preiner, director, marketing at BSH Home Appliances 5—Scavolini Toronto senior designer Monica Bussoli; designers Madyson Kearns and Isabel Ordonez; senior designers Nanelda Priftat and Talia Silver; designer Anna de Pascali; senior designer Jelena Anic; designer Carla Martinez Alarcon; and Maeve Kehoe, manager, contract division.
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Pebble’s BIG deal at Bulthaup Architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of the stellar firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), based in Copenhagen, New York and London, was in Toronto last September to open his Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary structure made of stacked-fibreglass blocks on King Street West. Now, a BIG-designed condo is going up on the site. On King Street East this past March, Bulthaup Toronto, the German-based, Bauhaus-inspired kitchendesign company, hosted the global launch of Pebble, a BIG-designed line of architectural hardware for Danish firm D Line and marketed online by Toronto-based Casson Hardware Specialties. Playfully round and chunky elliptical shapes distinguish the collection’s towel rail, toilet roll holder, coat hook, soap dispenser, shower shelf, toilet brush, lever handle, key escutcheon and thumb turn.
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1—Nathaniel Garcia, principal at boutique furniture agency Founded by Garcia; Casson Hardware Specialties directors Megan Cassidy and Jane Son; and party host and Bulthaup Toronto principal Stefan Sybydlo. 2—Therese Baron, marketing manager, Boszko & Verity Construction; and architects Nancy Chao, Gow Hastings Architects; and Luc Johnston, Lloydlondon Architects. 3—In front of Founded by Garcia’s Barcelona carpet by Urban Fabric: Interior designer Robert King, principal, Norma King Design; Deborah Wang, artistic director, DesignTO; Leslie Jen, marketing director at architecture firm Superkül; and Peter Sellar, principal photographer, Photoklik. 4—Tusch Seating International’s Chinny Sibeudu, A&D account executive, and Nino Hasan, president, flank architect Jenny Francis. 5—Architects Michaela Macleod, principal at architecture and landscape architecture firm Polymétis; and Ian Huff. 6—Interior designer Chris Koroknay, creative director, Studio CK; Cliff Smith, owner, furniture showroom and retail store Augustus Jones; Daisy Chan, managing director, Studio CK; and Jennifer Kreyssig, A&D rep, Milliken.
Havwoods Canadian launch Havwoods International, a fourth-generation, family-owned firm based near Manchester, England, manufactures engineered hardwood flooring and wall cladding. From across the pond and the company’s New York showroom, top brass helped launch their new Canadian showroom, in Toronto’s King Street East design district.
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1—Paul Moody, global head of digital, Havwoods; with Roomvo’s Pawel Rajszel, CEO, and Vaishnavy Gupta, customer development director. 2—Meghan Carter Design’s Susie Park and Madison Gellman, designers, flank the firm’s eponymous principal. 3—Monte Ray McMurchy and Havwoods New York showroom manager Sophie-Zacha Lameret. 4—Andrew Barnes, global CFO, Havwoods; Yoland Senik, designer, Relative Space; and Anthony Scott, global brands director, Havwoods. 5—Joe Mancuso, principal at Mancuso Homes; Sia Mahdieh, director of interior design, Pulsinelli. 6—Dana Bronikova, Toronto showroom manager, Havwoods; May Haymoor of her eponymous interior design firm; and Amanda Hodgson, inside sales team leader, Havwoods.
Formica new formats At Formica Canada’s Design+ event in Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, the surfacing company invited over 150 A&D professionals to learn about Formica’s new Living Impressions Collection, HardStop decorative-protection panels and Intentek wireless charging laminate surface. 1—Adamson Associates Architects’ Naoto Hayashi, technologist; Yupin Li, intern architect. 2—From interior design firm Connect: Kimberley Green, designer; Julie Moore, design director; Seamus Butterly, sales consultant; and Lisa Di Carlo, designer. 3—Formica Canada’s Christelle Locat-Rainville, marketing manager; Tatiana Alexandrova, marketing specialist; and territory managers Philip Roy and Johannie Sirois Paquette. 4—From Rogers Communications: Nickeisha Lewis, design specialist; Kaitie Riddell and Jaclyn Ferron, merchandising specialists; and Rosa Costanzo and Serena Prosser, retail designers.
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