Tag archives for Toronto
Carving the City
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Article by Wayne Reeves
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HILE THREE-DIMENSIONAL depictions of buildings and towns date back to antiquity, terrain models (or raised-relief maps) became popular only from the 1890s...
Art Deco and the Cocktail’s Influence on an Era
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Article by Lindsay Rose-McLean
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rt deco is a term applied to a popular aesthetic movement that was prominent in parts of Europe, Britain, and North America between 1910...
A Passage Through Time And Space: The Hall in Victorian Row-house Architecture
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Article by Lindsay Rose-McLean
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s a gateway into the home, the front hall serves to convey an important first impression of wealth, status, and aesthetic taste. Nowhere more...
A Toronto Gem: Gustav Hahn and the Spadina Billiard Room Frieze
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James Austin S. Thompson
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hen albert and Mary austin returned to toronto after living in Winnipeg for
fourteen years, they decided to commission a local artist to...
neon promises
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Article by James A. Chambers
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n 1971 my new bride and I drove from Toronto to British Columbia in a 1967 VW bus. The Trans-Canada cut...
the tall narrow canvas of William Grit Laskin
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Article by Judy Donnelly
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illiam Grit Laskin is one of North America’s pre-eminent luthiers and inlay artists. Since the early 1970s he has built beautifully-crafted guitars,...
print in context
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Article by Chloë Catán
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orking from her studio in Toronto, Canadian textile designer Virginia Johnson has built a hugely successful brand of colourful prints on clothing,...
Lyle and the moderne
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Article by Glenn McArthur
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ohn M. Lyle was one of the pre-eminent architects of the first half of the twentieth century in Canada. He was acknowledged by...
Flat Motifs: The Eclectic Designs of the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Vaudeville Sets
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Article by Chloë Catán
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hen the Ontario Heritage Trust1 took on the ambitious project of restoring the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres twenty years ago, they...