DX Auction
Original Collectors Night, the Design Exchange’s second annual fundraiser auction, was billed as “an immersive cocktail party in three acts—live auction, silent auction and story-telling performance.” Fashion designers seemingly outnumbered interior designers, not surprisingly, considering the scheduling conflict with Chicago’s NeoCon. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1— René Wikkerink, contractor and owner of Wikkerink Design Build; former Canadian House and Home honcho Mark Challen, set to launch his new venture, stylecooler.com in September; and Richard Azevedo, software sales exec at salesforce.com. 2— Interior designer Jeffrey Douglas, principal at Douglas Design Studio; Tanya Richards, CEO and co-founder, and Melandro Quilatan, principal, at interior design firm Tomas Pearce; and illustrator Steve Yeates. 3— Architect Jonathan Friedman, partner, Partisan Projects; fashion lawyer Anjli Patel; and visual artist Jordan Söderberg Mills, whose 10-foot-tall anaglyphic mirrors, which reflect two colours of light, graced the Hearn Generating Station venue for Luminato. 4— Solange Rivard, director of branding agency Soco; Karla Hewitt-Blackie, interior designer and owner of Homing Studio; Carineh Babayan, owner of fashion and furnishings firm CB1969; and multimedia artist Radha Chaddah.
The longest day
Diamond Schmitt Architects (DSA) hosted their 31st annual Summer Solstice Party at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto’s Don Valley. - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1—Lighting designer Paul Boken, VP, Mulvey & Banani Lighting; with DSA architects Brad Hindson, Graeme Reed and Mehdi Ghiyaei, and Maya Orzechowska, architectural staff. 2— John Clark, chairman, Commonwealth Fund Services; Abel Joseph “Jack” Diamond, himself; Kathleen McClure, implementation centre, Avoca co-op. 3— Dr. Ron Dembo, founder and CEO, Zero Footprint, a website that enables users to measure and track their carbon footprint, with heritage architects Michael McClelland, principal ERA Architects; and William Greer, for whom the Heritage Toronto Awards’s Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship prize was named. 4— DSA intern architect Fernanda Rubin; HR director Lilia Kiriakou; and intern architect Corina Ardeleanu. 5— Mitchell Cohen, president, Daniels (“Love where you live”) Corporation; psychotherapist Janice Lewis, and DSA partner Donald Schmitt. 6— DSA architects Emily Baxter and Stephanie Huss; Rebecca Ho-Dion, lighting design director at Alula Lighting Design; and DSA architects Joseph Yau and Erin Broda. 7— Yaprak Berktin, senior VP, Infrastructure Ontario; Ann Ford, joint VP, William Osler Health System; and David Sylvester, principal, Crossey Engineering.
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DX-Ryerson Influx
Ryerson’s School of Interior Design took over the Design Exchange’s exhibition hall with art installations said to “explore the influx of logic and creativity.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1—Ryerson interior design assistant professor Jonathan Anderson, who curated the exhibits; fourth-year School of Interior Design students Artemis Han and Kayley Mullings, who is also an interior design intern at Studio Munge; and recent grad William Reive, who is going to UBC for his master’s in architecture. 2— Tiny Toronto’s Troydon Rosario, design; Sherry Leung, engineering; Sa’Ad Ahmed, founder; Laura Pellegatta, projects; Robert Gemmell, design; and Amanda Soriano, marketing. The firm designs and develops small homes whose “purpose is to demonstrate energy efficiency at a level not experienced in North America.” 3— Model and actor Kyana Brannigan, wearing necklace by Toronto’s Spark & Thistle; Tamar Elise, outreach co-ordinator at LGBT Youthline; and Design Exchange graphic designer Erica Crossfield. 4— Ryerson grads Murray Gibson, project designer at Figure3; Katrina Marie Clancy, junior designer at Inger Bartlett; Monika Matczak, junior designer at Barlow Reid Design; and Adam Wyrebek, interior designer at 2pi r Design.
Design Agency Block Party
Design Agency (DA) hosted their annual summer block party, spilling out of their west-end Toronto offices. The catering featured happy clients such as Momofuku (high-end resto at the Shangri-la Hotel) and Nandos of piri-piri chicken fame. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1—DA’s Lorelei Lucas, director of project management, and intermediate designer Julia Summerville. 2— Danny Tseng, architecture partner at Soldatova Tseng; Elizabeth Crisante, lawyer at Fedorsen law office; and Samantha Short, A&D account executive, Tusch Seating. 3— Allison McColeman with husband and DA partner Allen Chan; Jon Vaughan, sales rep at decorative planter maker CTi Plastic. 4— DA partner Anwar Mekhayech; Marisa Simunovic and Klaus Nienkamper II: she is wife and business partner he is president of Klaus, Nienkamper’s retail division; and registered nurse Sheila Abe. 5— Christopher Rowe, sales lead at Herman Miller Collection; Bradley Marks, interior designer at Designstead, who helped design the Vancouver Simons department store; and Diana Watters, fabricator at Unitfive, which creates custom metalwork lighting, fixtures and furniture.
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