Repetition. Check. Balconies. Check. Summer light. Check.
photo by Joel Lopata
Now if only people could fix their curtains.
Each February, the gorgeous Gladstone Hotel in Toronto gets taken over by talented artists who transform twelve rooms with their innovative, creative, and jaw-dropping installations. The event, Come Up to My Room, began in 2003 and was co-founded by Pamila Matharu and Christina Zeidleris. I had a chance to see the installations in person this past weekend and I was impressed by the talent of the artists, designers, engineers, and architects at this year’s exhibition.
Among Bruno Billio and Sam Mogelonsky’s mirrored room with shiny spinning things, and Matthew Blunderfield and Skanda Lin’s hanging installation exploring the disposable nature of the digital world, there was plenty of whiteness to be seen.
Did anyone get to Come Up to My Room this year? What was your favourite exhibit?
Photos by Jordana.
Now – is this a chair, or is this a chair?
Jordana sitting on the Peacock chair, at the Interior Design Show, Toronto
The Peacock chair is the result of a collaboration between UUfie architectural firm and DuPont Corian (yes, as in the countertop material) which was completed for IDS 2012. If you can believe it, the Peacock is made from a single sheet of DuPont Corian which has been cut, bent and folded through a process of thermoforming (sounds like quite a process, right?).
If you want to see the Peacock chair up close, be sure to get yourself to IDS this weekend.
I know I’ve posted a lot about NYC in recent weeks but I spent a good chunk of my Christmas holidays there and I’m eager to share some of the photos that I took. For today’s Friday Five I’m happy to share with you some of the very pretty houses I came across when my family and I hit the ‘burbs. (Yes, that’s right, we escaped Manhattan for a morning to explore the surrounding neighbourhoods.)
Photos by Jordana.
I’ve walked by The Plaza Hotel in NYC more times than I care to count but I can never resist taking a photo (or several) of this amazing building. For my most recent photo I zoomed in on the windows – I just love how they are perfectly in line.
The Plaza
Photo by Jordana.