The Score: 5 Exciting Product Lines New to Toronto
Five product lines that have just touched down in the city
Above: PS I LOVE YOU
IKEA’s latest PS collection includes easy-to-reconfigure furniture by top international designers. Personalize Matali Crasset’s metal-frame wardrobe by rearranging its colourful plastic squares. $180, AT IKEA, 1475 The Queensway, Etobicoke
MOST WANTED
This new Rosedale outpost of Want Les Essentiels de la Vie stocks high-end skin care products, preppy clothing and a range of haute handbags and luggage. We love the compact Sangster tote in waxed cotton. $440, at Want Apothecary, 1070 Yonge St
GOOD CHEMISTRY
Known for clean lines and elegant Canadian craftsmanship, Quebec’s Lambert & Fils delivers a custom lighting collection for Mobilia. This brass suspension lamp brings together five bulbs in a molecular arrangement. $800, at Mobilia, 1425 Dundas St E, Mississauga
BASKET CASE
Umbra’s Shift line invites designers to reimagine familiar forms. To Harry Allen, that meant repurposing a basketwork technique from the Phillippines to create the Coiled stool, which features a rattan core wrapped in handwoven thread. For more about Shift, read our interview with Umbra design director Matt Carr. $250, at Umbra, 165 John St
ICEBERG AHEAD
Canuck Tim Antoniuk of Question Objects modelled this walnut media cabinet after the arctic landscape. Manufactured in Alberta, its drawers are lined with white embossed floral prints. $2200, at Urban Mode, 145 Tecumseth St
Originally published in our Fall 2014 issue.