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How to choose a vase for the flowers you actually buy
How to choose a vase that suits the flowers you actually bring home: height, neck shape and when a low bowl beats a vase, worked through with new pieces from...
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...
The case for handmade cabinet hardware
Yes, handmade cabinet hardware is worth it. A guide to what separates CERCLE by Maha Alavi from builder-grade, and how to choose the right piece.
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...
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