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Building a Better Brita

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Jessica Johnson | Comments

Categories: Product design

Mavea's curvilinear new pitcher has arrived to enliven the relatively dry terrain of home water filtration.

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Doors Open Toronto: Taylor Smyth Architects

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Nina Boccia | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Events, Interior Design

As part of the citywide festival this weekend, Toronto's Taylor Smyth Architects invites the public to stop by Saturday for a tour of the firm's 344-square-metre office – recently renovated and slated for LEED silver certification. 

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Patkau to Design Friends for Fallingwater

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Architecture

The results of a competition to design a collection of cottages to accompany Frank Lloyd Wright's historic Fallingwater were accounced this week, with the award going to Patkau of Vancouver.

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SATC2 Spoiler: Design by Anne Kyyrö Quinn

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Nina Boccia | Comments

Categories: Events, Interior Design , Shopping

Sex and the City 2 set decorator Lydia Marks furnished Carrie Bradshaw's Manhattan apartment with a Lola ottoman from the Finnish, London-based textile designer Anne Kyyrö Quinn. The film opens this weekend.

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For 2010, SIDIM does design with a conscience

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Nina Boccia | Comments

Categories: Product design, Graphic design, Events, Shopping

Time and again Montreal's SIDIM has proven that good things come in small packages, and this year's fair (on this weekend, May 27-29) is no different.

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