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The Corner Store / Design Accessories
The Corner Store is a new micro-shop in Toronto that sells unique, mostly handcrafted treasures sourced from New York and California. The shop lies deep in the ground floor of...
Thank You Shop / Design Accessories
Thank You, a one month old shop on West Queen West, can only be described as a treasure trove of found objects. Not simply an antique store, nor craft store,...
Crown Flora / Florist
Crown Flora opened just over two months ago in Parkdale. It's instantly noticeable for its somewhat at-odds double window display--on one side, a carpet of moss is speckled with terrariums,...
Ransack the Universe / Design Accessories
Ransack the Universe is Bloordale's one-stop shop for vintage goods, records, local crafts, jewelry, and one-of-a-kind decor. Originally located in the basement of 1207 Bloor Street West, the store recently...
General Tao / Design Accessories
General Tao is the type of store in which I could spend hours. Perhaps it's a sign that my delayed sense of adulthood is taking over, because I'm becoming more...
WANT Passport / Design Accessories
WANT Passport has recently opened at Billy Bishop airport. If it has one mission, it's to keep its customers in the mile high club, or at least help them get...
The Monocle Shop (Toronto) / Design Accessories
Monocle began as a magazine, and later morphed into a global media brand. But to the unbriefed and average College Street passerby, Monocle is just a new eclectic little boutique...
Williams Craig Design Studio / Design Accessories
Williams Craig Design Studio is making use of its new streetside digs by combining its corporate business with its own carefully curated design boutique. The firm spent more than 13 years...
Kid Icarus (Augusta Ave.) / Cards, Paper And Stationery
Kid Icarus has moved. But don't worry, no additional treks across town will be needed--they've moved onto Augusta Ave., continuing owner's Michael Viglione 14-year-long tenancy of Kensington Market. "What we...
EQ3 (Liberty Village) / Contemporary Furniture
EQ3 (Liberty Village) has thrown itself into the Liberty Village furniture battle. With Casalife and West Elm already battling to deck out those Liberty Village one-bedroom-plus-dens, EQ3 unveiled its two-storey...
Suitcase Vintage / Design Accessories
Suitcase Vintage strikes me as the truest incarnation of what one might call a "nostalgia shop." Now, as anyone who has seen Midnight in Paris likely knows, the term doesn't offer...
Metropolis Living Factory Store / Vintage Furniture
Metropolis Living Factory Store is like its original shop in the Junction, but on steroids. This warehouse totals 7,000 square feet, with ample room for Metropolis' oversized antique finds and...
Stroudfoot / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Stoudfoot's design creations are in restaurants all around Toronto. From both Origins to Colborne Lane, for which Jason Stroud added a heavy dose of his design touch, to elements in...
Verso / Design Accessories
Verso has a somewhat unusual address. A black pylon outside of West Queen West fixture INAbstracto announces it, but you have to pass through to the back, where you'll find...
Stacklab / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Stacklab tries to distinguish itself from Toronto's other reclaimed wood design shops in one important way — and it involves impressive (at least, to me) computer software. "We're not just...
Hideaway Antiques / Antique Furniture
Hideaway Antiques recently renovated its Parkdale home to provide a more leisurely experience of looking for antiques. Those who pine for the thrill of the hunt should not be dismayed...
Everyday Housewife / Design Accessories
Everyday Housewife, as a name, makes sense when you see Bev Hisey's collection of vintage glass and ceramic housewares. The bright orange vases, lime green glass pieces, and assortment of...
Even & Odd / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Even & Odd is a pretty little home decor boutique that sits in a slightly less pretty and little stretch of Toronto's Corktown. As I make my way along Queen to...
Homebase / Art Supplies
Homebase is a mecca for anyone interested in graffiti culture. The little shop on Camden Street near Queen and Spadina can't be easily classified — it's part gallery, part arts...
Gautier Toronto / Contemporary Furniture
Gautier is the latest addition to Toronto's fancy furniture row, otherwise known as King East. The new shop hosts the designs of a 50-year-old French brand that, despite the going...
Hacher & Krain / Kitchen & Bathroom
Hacher & Krain is a fine knife shop that pledges allegiance to a variety of forging regions. While there are some stores in Toronto, such as Tosho Knife Arts in...
Above Ground Art Supplies (Junction) / Art Supplies
Above Ground Art Supplies in the Junction is the second location of of the original art supply store on McCaul Street near OCAD. While the first Above Ground planted its...
CB2 Toronto / Contemporary Furniture
CB2 opened its first Canadian store this week in the frame of what was once the Big Bop on Queen West. There are hints here and there of the place that...
Tosho Knife Arts / Kitchen & Bathroom
Tosho Knife Arts is probably one of the worst places to visit in Toronto with a clumsy coworker or toddler in tow. That's because the Mirvish Village latest addition proudly...
ARTiculations / Art Supplies
ARTiculations is an art supply store that's more than an art supply store. It has its own semi-enclosed gallery space, a back room studio, and a roster full of workshops...
Hanji Handmade Paper and Gifts / Cards, Paper And Stationery
Hanji Handmade Paper and Gifts is a petite little shop straddling Koreatown and the Annex. Inside, there are soft touches of olive green on the walls, juxtaposed by colours, shapes,...
Arts Market / Local Artisans
Arts Market is Toronto's first year-round artisan market, if you can believe it. And admittedly, I couldn't. I had to pause to think about it, but indeed, there are only...
Haveli Home (the Junction) / Asian Furniture
Haveli Home is making a slow move from Liberty Village to the Junction. While the original location on East Liberty Street still remains open (for now), the new (and soon...
Scout / Design Accessories
Scout is a quaint little Roncesvalles gift boutique specializing in local and handmade goods. For some reason, the plum purple ceiling seems to tell me all I need to know...
Suite 22 / Contemporary Furniture
Suite 22 is a Markham design shop offering modern Italian furniture and decor. Exclusively. While the trend in furniture shops nowadays seems to be offering a bit from here and...
Green Light District Design / Contemporary Furniture
Green Light District Design is an import from Ottawa showcasing contemporary furniture from across the globe. While the recently opened Roncesvalles floor looks like the living room of a seasoned...
Julien Armand / Contemporary Furniture
Julien Armand has a truly outstanding collection of chairs. Lucky for you, high-end furniture-buyer, they're displayed dramatically up the height of the showroom's walls. Just look up; no shuffling required....
Door Store / Vintage Furniture
The Door Store, despite its name, is not simply a warehouse of reclaimed doors. Granted, much of its inventory, especially that which is concentrated by the entrance of its Castlefield...
Miracle Thieves / Design Accessories
Miracle Thieves is a new creative space and retail consignment shop at the corner of Dundas and Crawford. It's rather ambiguous-looking from the outside peeking in, but that's kind of...
Canadian Salvaged Timber / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Canadian Salvaged Timber is a haven for lumber lovers. As both a design shop and reclaimed wood wholesaler, CST serves a whole range of clients including homeowners, restaurateurs, interior designers...
Elte (Second Floor) / Contemporary Furniture
Elte has a new second floor showroom that's a little more modern, a little more hip, and a little less expensive than its main floor retail. Elte is known for...
The Arthur / Vintage Furniture
The Arthur is a vintage decor shop stocking unique pieces tagged with individual histories. Liz Ikiriko, owner of the new store on College at Euclid, tells me the shop was...
Blackbird Vintage Finds / Vintage Furniture
Blackbird Vintage Finds in the Distillery District is owner Paula DiRenzo's second take on vintage décor. She decided to close up her previous store, Fleur de Terre, which was on...
BYOB / Kitchen & Bathroom
BYOB is just like your favourite kitchen knick-knack store, but instead of your countertop, everything here is for your bar. That makes BYOB a dangerous place for someone such as...
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- Studio Pazo Wow that was odd. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that over again. Regardless, just...
- Gwartzman's Art Supplies Reading these comments, no wonder he's cranky. He sounds like a knowledgeable artist who doesn't take any crap. Actually he sounds like a hoot! I think I'll visit the place...
- The Corner Store After reading this overwrought thread there was only one thing to do: Check this place out. Pictures can be misleading. Sorry to suck the air out of room but this...
- The Corner Store Hey 'Reality' please enlighten us young people as an "older and wiser person that is far more qualified to curate something", what you're doing that is so incredible. Please....
- The Corner Store What a strange converstaion here! This is a cute shop with interesting stuff in an unlikely venue... Good on Peter Ash Lee for bringing a little light into the lost spaces of...
- The Corner Store How 20-something-year-olds feel qualified to "curate" anything is beyond me. Having said that, I don't see anything amiss with this shop is particular. If there are people with the...
- The Corner Store So Canada's unemployment rate is due to not enough people being suckered into buying junk from an overpriced garage sale? Canada's unemployment rate is on par with other Western industrialized...
- The Corner Store Hilarious. Such overpriced garbage. I love reading the paper-thin justification for the prices: "support local", "support uniqueness" (what?), "it's high-end" or "if you can't afford it go to the dollar...
- The Corner Store See, you're the perfect customer. Go ahead and pay $40 for your 1" strips of leather.
- The Corner Store look at the location?! it is TOTALLY marketing to that neighbourhood. no hipster will be affected by this, as it's north of bloor. keep calm and carry on.
- Haveli Home (The Junction) Hi there would you mind letting me know which webhost you're utilizing? I've loaded your blog in 3 completely different browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot...
- The Corner Store Nancy, this admittedly cute shop is a sentimental garage sale of superfluous trinkets. It is not a reversal of the complex globalization that enabled us to farm out all the...
- Studio Pazo I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of your site? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more...
- The Corner Store The target audience for this place is def not on this site. They a little high end while we all more street, more groove, more juvenile.
- The Corner Store And Jeff, I would totally agree about the unequal economic, materialistic and disjointed cultural times. Because people like YOU shop at walmart. Do you have any idea where your junk...
- The Corner Store Congratulations - looks like a fabulous store and can't wait to check it out next time I'm in Toronto. And to the rest of the complainers: don't like it? Can't...
- The Corner Store I dont understand the random hate. If this store was in Kensington market all you hipsters would lose your mind. Have you been to this store? Its cute as fuck...
- The Corner Store There's always the dollar store
- The Corner Store There's always the dollar store boys. X
- The Corner Store I totally agree with you JS! It's definitely the mom and pop stores in Toronto that are causing the increasingly unequal economic, materialistic and disjointed cultural times.
- The Corner Store It's okay Gerda, I don't think you're the target audience for this store anyway... Why spend money on unique products made by independent designers when you get the same stuff...
- The Corner Store Hey, Joff, maybe she is the one he sends to the yard sales to collect trinkets and stuff for 10 cents so her boss can 'curate' them in his mind...
- The Corner Store Lol Kayla works there
- The Corner Store So happy to see such a beautifully curated shop in this Centre. There are so many beautiful and unique items that are perfect for gifts.
- The Corner Store You want to sell "curated" objects (more crap that people don't need) inspired by and geared to New Yorkers and L.A? Well take your derivative "art" pieces and go sell...
- The Corner Store Nailed it in one, Stan. Any time you hear BS like: "consistency in the aesthetics of the store" it's got to be a junk merchant talking. Flea markets have better...
- The Corner Store Overpriced junk... The stuff they sell here is nothing more then a dust collectors No Thank you!
- Chief Salvage Co. Woah! I'm really enjoying the template/theme of this website. It's simple, yet effective. A lot of times it's very hard to get that "perfect balance" between superb usability and appearance. I...
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- Thank You A 'stuff' store! yippee! i love stuff!
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