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Rencontre au Sommet: The Walker Cup
’est en approvisionnant les minotiers de Detroit que l’états-uniens Hiram Walker, commanditaire de ce trophée, amorce des relations commerciales dans le Haut-Canada. Dès 1856, il acquiert des terres près de Windsor, puis fonde Walkerville ou Walkertown. Distillateur à Waterloo, Joseph...
Artful Drinking: Raising the Bar on Contemporary Glassware
In my younger days, I spent close to five years behind a bar. Working in pubs, lounges, and clubs I bore witness to the different cultures and ceremonies of the drinking world, some highbrow (Shall we have an after-dinner...
A Window on Taste: Canadian Beer Labels through History
eer has been a part of Canadian life since the 17th century. The first brewery, “la Brasserie du Roi,” was built in 1671 in Quebec City, under Jean Talon, the Intendant of Quebec. A brewery was operating in Halifax by 1754, and the first...
Cocktail Culture in a Postmodern World
Editorial by John Fleming
In this issue we touch upon a few of the physical avatars of alcohol and the decorative persuasions of advertising and practice in promoting its use in social contexts. As current linguistic clichés would have it, “what goes around, comes around,” in this instance, the revival...
Spring/Summer 2013 Issue – Cocktail Culture
Editorial: Cocktail Culture in a Post-Modern World – John Fleming
Art Deco and the Cocktail’s Influence on an Era – Lindsay Rose-McLean
Travellers’ Best: Trade Sign for an Inn – John Fleming and Michael Rowan
Shaking Up Tradition: A Selection of Cocktail Shakers from the City of Waterloo...
Fall/Winter 2012 Issue – Architecture and the Decorative
Editorial: Architecture and the Decorative – John Fleming
A Toronto Gem: Gustav Hahn and the Spadina Billiard Room – James Austin S. Thompson
A Passage Through Time and Space: The Hall in Victorian Row-house Architecture – Lindsay Rose-McLean
La beauté de la chose – Jacques et Nicolas...
From the Hand of Man: Ornamented Tools from the Montague Tool Museum
esign is implicit in the making of objects, and it originates with our hands. We are born with these essential, primary tools that shape not just the world around us, but our species, too. With jointed fingers and opposable thumbs, human beings have been...
The Beauty of the Thing: The Chapel of Sainte-Cécile in the Village of Calixa-Lavallée
eaning on his shovel in silence, a man called Pierre Moussard stands in the snow. In the madness and folly of the world, he dreams of creating his own historic “folly,” but of a very
different kind. His intention is to build...
A Passage Through Time And Space: The Hall in Victorian Row-house Architecture
s a gateway into the home, the front hall serves to convey an important first impression of wealth, status, and aesthetic taste. Nowhere more consciously constructed was this
impression than in typical row-house architecture of the mid-Victorian period. Also referred to as town-house, or...