Design Stores
Contemporary Furniture Design Stores
Design Stores
Art Shoppe / Yonge & Eglinton
Art Shoppe offers everything from traditional classic to modern furniture from its 70,000 square foot showroom at Yonge and Eglinton....
Avenue Road / Riverside
Avenue Road is a palatial furniture and home decor store located, oddly enough, on Eastern Avenue. I don't use the word palatial lightly. And, forgive the superlatives in this post,...
BLVD Interiors / Queen West
BLVD Interiors has packed up from its long time home at the north east corner of Queen and Bathurst and moved, uh, a block west to the south side of...
BoConcept Toronto / King East
BoConcept has arrived in Toronto, bringing with it its contemporary line of functional furniture. At Adelaide and Jarvis, the Denmark-based furniture chain, has more than 340 sales units worldwide, and...
Cabinet Furniture / Distillery District
Cabinet Furniture in the Distillery District feels just like a timeless cottage retreat. As I enter the showroom off the main square, all I can see is wood--everywhere. Cabinet Furniture...
Calligaris / King East
Calligaris has recently opened a location in Toronto. Found on King East, it's a bright but tight showroom stocked with their signature chic Italian furniture and design. Most items are...
casalife / Liberty Village
casalife has closed their Vaughan store and are expanding in Liberty Village in order to consolidate their two locations there into one massive retail showroom. For a look inside the...
CB2 Toronto / Queen West
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...
Commute Home / Annex
Commute Home is my perfect design store. There are many design stores to love in this city, but Commute's inventory of constantly fresh products and designs appeal to my short...
Design Republic / Queen West
Design Republic is a new furniture shop that opened in the Burroughes Building on Queen West. This welcome addition to the strip sells a wide mix of stools, chairs, sofas,...
Domison Toronto / King East
Domison Furniture Boutique has opened a showroom in Toronto - branching out from its flagship store in Montreal. The furniture strikes me as part comfy/classic, part modern, and part retro....
East West Futons / Annex
Trendy and affordable furniture & bedrooms for small space living. Check out the organic & latex mattresses....
ELTE / Castlefield Design District
ELTE occupies a massive warehouse space on Ronald Avenue in the Castlefield Design District. They're best known for their endless selection of quality, high priced carpets but they also stock...
Elte (Second Floor) / Castlefield Design District
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...
EQ3 / King East
EQ3's huge two-story showroom on King East has a range of contemporary tables, chairs, sofas, bedroom sets and design accessories. Ask a staff member to show you the discount area...
EQ3 (Liberty Village) / Liberty Village
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...
Equilibrium / Junction
Equilibrium bring new furniture options to the Junction. Offerings here include a mix of Canadian made pieces and modern imports. They carry some of the same lines as Elte, Casalife,...
Gautier Toronto / King East
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...
Green Light District Design / Roncesvalles Village
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...
Hollace Cluny / Rosedale
Contributed by Steven Carver There are a few home and design stores that make you want to buy everything in stock and take it home to make your place look as...
Home Craft Decor / Queen West
Home Craft Decor, having moved one door east into the former space of macFAB fabrics at Queen and Bathurst is a fun, mishmash of furniture and design styles, certain to...
HorseFeathers Home / Distillery District
HorseFeathers Home has recently relocated from its liquidated warehouse-sized store in the Castlefield Design District to the former Artcore space in the Distillery District. The new collection is a much...
Houndstooth / Castlefield Design District
Houndstooth is a large furniture store in the Castlefield Design District and is home to moderately priced contemporary sofas, chairs, tables and bedroom furniture. Photos by Jesse Milns...
InDesign Furnishings / King East
InDesign, a two-storey showroom on King East, carries a mix of modern and contemporary furniture including sofas, chairs and tables. ...
Inner Luxe / Bloor West Village
Inner Luxe sells contemporary furniture made in the GTA. From sofas to chairs to tables they've got a small, well curated selection of designs....
Ital Interiors / King East
On the corner of King and Berkeley, Ital Interiors carries high-end, contemporary Italian furniture and design. ...
Julien Armand / Bloordale Village
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....
Kiosk (King East) / King East
Kiosk has opened its latest store in Toronto, this one near King and Berkeley just a stones throw from Klaus. The new showroom is essentially a multi-level museum of avant-garde...
Klaus by Nienkamper / King East
Klaus by Nienkamper, on the east end of the design corridor along King East, is a chic, sophisticated showroom of modern furniture and hip design elements. The store feels like...
Limitless / King East
Limitless, formerly Bullfrog & Limitless when it first opened early this year, still sells too imported lines of furniture that are exclusive to North America. Limitless is from Holland while...
MADE / Dundas West
Since opening up shop in September of 2006, MADE has already secured its position as a staple within Toronto's, as well as Canada's, design community. Slightly disguised by means of...
Minotti Toronto / Yorkville
The Minotti store on Davenport Road in Toronto is the place to go to purchase and ogle at furniture from this high-end Italian brand....
Quasi Modo / West Queen West
Quasi Modo specializes in modern furniture, lighting and accessories for the home and office....
Resource Furniture / King East
Resource Furniture is a global chain of furniture stores specializing in space saving furniture. While the designs are cool and unexpected (and undoubtedly space saving) it all comes at a...
Roche Bobois / King East
Roche Bobois is the source for high end modern furniture at the corner of King East and Parliament....
Roomy Interiors / King East
We're all living in condos, now. We're each doing the ecologically friendly and politically proper thing by single-handedly densifying the downtown core. "Home" ownership is rising as fast as builders...
Shelter Furniture / Castlefield Design District
Shelter Furniture is a new store in the Eglinton-Lawrence area that's sure to find itself in good company amongst the many design, kitchen, bathroom and home re-modeling stores around Caledonia...
South Hill Home / Annex
South Hill Home stocks both classic and contemporary furniture in their large storefront on Dupont. ...
Space Furniture / Corktown
Space Furniture in Corktown carries a range of modern furniture for the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom....
Studio Pazo / Riverside
Studio Pazo in Riverside sells twentieth century modern furniture including tables, chairs and lighting. ...
Stylegarage / West Queen West
O.K., so Stylegarage looks like it was once a garage. At 1500 square feet, it's a pretty damned big garage, but you could imagine some sort of car collector parking...
Tendex / Yorkville
Tendex on Davenport near Avenue Road is home to modern European furniture including brands like Bernini, Draenert and Desalto....
Umbra / Queen West
The Umbra Concept Store opened in June, 2007 on John Street just north of Queen. The massive pink-clad store pays homage to Canadian designer Karim Rashid and features Rashid's creations...
Up Country / King East
Up Country on King East is a two floor showrown of modern and contemporary furniture. Go here for a wide selection of sofas, chairs, coffee tables and bedroom furniture....
West Elm Toronto / Liberty Village
West Elm has dozens of locations south of the border but only one in Canada - and it's right here in Toronto in Liberty Village. Inside is plenty of contemporary...

