Celebrating 26 years, Toronto’s Interior Design Show (IDS) is billed as “Canada’s premier showcase of new products, superstar designers and avant-garde concepts from North America and beyond.” This past Jan. 22-26, 391 exhibitors sprawled…
Celebrating 25 years, Toronto’s Interior Design Show (IDS) assembled 220 exhibitors, including a strong Canadian contingent, on the 250,000-square-foot show floor at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building last week. Every…
Last month’s NeoCon was a personal triumph for Nick Gillissie and Paul Krüger with the launch of their Res cupcake-like upholstered soft seating on a rolling pivoting storage space, for Allseating; and…
What does the post-pandemic “new normal” look like? There has been a surfeit of-return-to-the-office stories, but they have been told, for the most part, by commercial real estate giants who provide an…
The Niagara Parks Power Station adaptive reuse by +VG Architects turns the granddaddy of today’s electric-power industry into an iconic museum and entertainment destination. What do JP Morgan and John Jacob Astor…
How are Canadian contract furniture manufacturers coping with the pandemic? Better than expected. From May to July, they were shut down as “non-essential services” by the Ontario government’s Emergency Management and Civil…
The Interior Design Show (IDS), Canada’s largest design exposition and conference, launched into the new decade January 16-19 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Previously a retail show, it became a hybrid…
What do Frank Gehry, David Rockwell, Gensler and Stantec have in common? They have all hired Eventscape for custom architectural fabrication because, as Eventscape’s website states, “We build things others can’t. We…
Workers of the world, unite. You have the right to be seated comfortably. That could be the mission statement of ergoCentric Seating Systems, based in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. The company…
Attention, furniture dealers (and manufacturers): There’s a new underserved market niche for you to explore. In Toronto, Integral Business Interiors, a furniture dealership and workplace design firm, is a pathfinder in this…
Now here’s an A&D trade show with a difference. Instead of big booths sprawling on a brightly lit show floor, Architect@Work’s layout gangs modules of four booths measuring 10 feet square. The…
IIDEX is dead; long live IIDEX. IIDEXCanada, formerly Canada’s largest design expo and conference, presented by Interior Designers of Canada and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, premiered last week in its…