Innehållsförteckning för Issue 4, 2018: Modern Renos från DESIGNLINES

More designy goodness awaits at designlinesmagazine.com! Trending Now In a web-exclusive series, we explore a trio of storage spaces – a closet, an attic and the garden shed-cum-studio pictured above – that were transformed into habitable rooms by savvy local designers and architects. VISIT DLM.AG/CLOSETSPACE TO CHECK THEM OUT. SPECTACULAR RENOVATIONS Discover more inspiring makeovers online, from a teensy coach house seamlessly reconfigured as a home office and guest room to an Edwardian manse with an unusual layout – and a pet poodle. DON’T MISS OUT ON DL’S INSTAGRAM FEED Follow @designlinesmagazine on Instagram to see stunning homes, behind-the-scenes stories from our photo shoots and exclusive teasers of the hottest tickets in town.…

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MATTY MATHESON: A COOKBOOK $35 The Viceland TV star and former Parts & Labour chef doesn’t promise his new cookbook will be an easy one: some of the recipes – like that for chow-chow pickles – take a few hours (if not a day) to make. But these largely Maritime dishes from his own past are put out there with a surprising amount of sentiment. Matty Matheson: A Cookbook by Abrams Books at Indigo FELT+FAT $25 Philadelphia ceramics company Felt+Fat (named for two of mid-20th-century artist Joseph Beuys’s favourite materials) specializes in Barragán-esque colours and eye-catching proportions. Its solid slipcast, hand-finished porcelain clay tableware – including these alluring espresso cups with disc handles and softly uneven surfaces – encourages discreet caresses. Espresso cups at Biscotteria Forno Cultura, Union Station BUMP…

If you’re looking for a high-design renovation, a nearly 30-year-old traditional house in Summerhill seems an unlikely place to find it. And yet this house, with its improbable combination of a mansard roof and built-in garage, proved fertile ground for a modern family dwelling. It was bought by a thirty-something couple that was ready to leave King West for a more family-oriented neighbourhood. “We wanted somewhere to lay down roots,” the homeowner says. After moving in and having two kids, however, they wanted to remake what the client calls a “seriously dated” interior that featured brown granite counters and glass block in the bathrooms. Enter Brian O’Brian of Omas:Works, and interior specialists Croma Design. The firms stripped away ornament and made a few careful alterations, revealing the modernist spirit hiding…

The year is 1902. A 20-year-old farmhand arrives in Toronto from nearby Dufferin County. His name is William John Hughes; friends call him Jack. He settles in the city’s then-industrial Wychwood neighbourhood and becomes an artisan glass cutter, learning to hand-etch delicate patterns into fine tableware. Hughes soon becomes fixated on one of his designs in particular. Inspired by a blue wildflower that grows by the roadside in his hometown, it features a striking hexagonal grid – the flower’s central disc – surrounded by buttery petals and a spray of leaves. He calls it Corn Flower glass. “The design was unique for its time,” explains curator Sarah Robinson, who oversees the permanent collection of W.J. Hughes Corn Flower glass at the Museum of Dufferin (MoD). “It looked nothing like the…

Make Mine Modern Team DL’s home-improvement wish list Who are you? Cristian Ordóñez What have you done for us lately? Art direction and design. I like a challenge and joining a new team, and learning from and adapting myself to new processes. If you were given a bucket of money to improve your home, what area would you tackle? I’d build a studio in my backyard. On top, there’d be a darkroom for my photography, and a little skateboarding ramp under the roof for the winter. Who are you? Anya Georgijevic What have you done for us lately? I wrote about the Pape Loft renovation by StudioAC (p. 69). It was inspiring to see a great project done on a relatively modest budget. What DIY project are you most proud…

1 GANGBUSTER Breaking up the posse of steel and glass condos on Toronto’s skyline takes a visionary. Luckily, Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang is here with her first Toronto high-rise near Yonge and St. Clair – and it looks nothing like the status quo. For starters, One Delisle has serious views. Nested eight-storey elements composed of sheltered balconies with generous terraces set atop them snake up the building, looking almost like the scales of a pinecone. From the street, pedestrians will appreciate the cylindrical tower’s angled geometry, as well as its negligible shadow, landscaped sidewalks and small-scale retail stores. STUDIOGANG.COM; SLATEAM.COM 2 SHOWTIME Paradise Theatre in Toronto’s Bloorcourt neighbourhood has been synonymous with cinema (and, ahem, ’80s pornography) since Benjamin Brown, one of the city’s earliest practising Jewish architects, designed…

A young family of three was looking not only to renovate their 348-square-metre, two-bedroom loft in the city’s east end, but also to change up their lifestyle. “I started to learn more about minimalism and to think this would be a better fit for us,” says homeowner Corina Chevalier. After seeing StudioAC’s minimalist Broadview Loft project online, Chevalier and her husband were so impressed with the firm’s work that they gave the architects carte blanche when it came to the redesign of their three-level loft, which is situated in a converted church on Pape Street. The couple was tired of clutter overwhelming their compact living area. “It was a very different space before – much darker,” says StudioAC co-founder Jennifer Kudlats. “It had brick veneer and green paint. It was…

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MORE DESIGNY EVENTS Bike City To Nov 17 An exhibition of advertisements, artifacts and rides (think a winsome Toronto-made high wheeler from the 1890s) proves that we’ve always been a bike city at heart. TORONTO.CA Believe To Jan 6 Best believe we’ll be at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural group exhibition, which features 16 artists to know in the newly renovated Tower Automotive Building. MUSEUMOFCONTEMPORARYART.CA Japan Now: Female Masters To Jan 13 Three lobby displays celebrate the groundbreaking work of contemporary Japanese women ceramicists – a group that first began practising in the postwar era. GARDINERMUSEUM.ON.CA DesignThinkers Oct 24 & 25 See what’s inside the colourful toolboxes of such global graphic design heavyweights as Michael Bierut of Pentagram at this annual two-day conference for visual communicators. DESIGNTHINKERS.COM Art Toronto…