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  Today is installation day for The Gallery of Greater Victoria's "Art In Bloom - Celebrating the art of gardening". One part of this dynamic community event is the "floral interpretations" where artists, designers, and florists create botanical interpretations of various works in the ...

Have you seen the latest Telus Optik TV commercial? It turns out that our half-Vulcan half-human friend Spock of Star Trek is a fellow Modernist. The commercial depicts Leonard Nimoy in a swanky mid century modern home receiving Telus Optik TV installation. Watching the commercial, I was supposed ...

Earth friendly design lovers will be happy to hear this. You no longer have to suffer the guilt of adding another piece of unwanted furniture to the landfill thanks to french designer Elise Gabriel. Her "Zelfo Embrace" collection of furniture and lighting is adorable, functional, and ...

We received an exciting delivery a couple of weeks ago from our upholstery shop containing a new Tommy sofa bed for the showroom. Upholstered in a bright spring green and accented by cute square cushions, this piece has been getting lots of attention since it's arrival. The mattress inside this ...

Sofa Compact by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com Designed in 1954, the Sofa Compact was an adaptation from a built in sofa that Charles and Ray Eames designed for their own home in the 1940's. The freestanding version has been in production since 1954 without ...

image credit: www.chi-athenaeum.org The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design has honored 5 Alessi products with their prestigious "2010 GOOD DESIGN" award: a 60 year old prestigious program of acknowledging design excellence all over the world. The 5 products that received the ...

Our annual Knoll Classics Sale is underway and we are off to a roaring start. Turns out people really like Knoll products...and they like them even more so when they're 15% off. All the classics are on sale February 28th to March 6th including the work by designers Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, ...

I want to ride my bicycle ... i want to ride my bike ... I want to ride my bicycle ... Queen is right. I do want to ride my bicycle, but the snow falling in Victoria is not helping me out in this department. My hat is tipped to those die hard riders that I have seen over the past few days ...

Terra Verde (Italian for "Green Earth") is a new contemporary townhome devlopment in Fairfield area, Victoria BC. It's a modern project with a west coast feel by local developer, Abstract Developments. The open concept design and clean finishes create a perfect space to house Gabriel Ross' ...

Our last post was highlighting a vintage Arne Jacobsen Series 7 Chair that our shop reupholstered. Today, I came across this video on the Huffington Post about the making of the classic 1955 chair. The video is a beautifully choreographed black and white film depicting all the steps (human and ...