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Harriet Allure and the idea that home is not one place

Two friends, raised in Germany with roots in Ghana, built a candle brand around the idea that home can be assembled more than once. Who makes Harriet Allure, what goes...

What Zeina Nahas is making in Toronto

Zeina Nahas works in stoneware and silver: ceramic vessels from the Melancholy collection and pure silver rings shaped by hand without molds. Both made in Toronto, both one of a...

What Katherine Holland puts into the clay

A Q&A with Katherine Holland, Toronto ceramicist and photographer. On photography and clay, Summer Bonfire ash, the patchwork pieces that are crazy difficult to make, and that little tickle in...

Santiago left architecture to build furniture in Toronto

Santiago left architecture in 2025 to start Grain & Grid, a Toronto furniture studio working in solid walnut and oak. We asked him about the leap, his process, and what...