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This custom furniture showroom in the Distillery is about as Canadian as it gets.

The preferred material is maple, harvested from sustainable forests in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Dining tables and bench seats look like chunky slabs on sturdy legs, but the workmanship is top-notch with near-invisible joinery and smooth finishes that feel like velvet to the touch. Their Historic Lumber Collection includes an impressively sized dining table made of solid Douglas fir salvaged from the Distillery’s 1927 Rack House M building. A savvy selection of striking lamps and sizable sofas hold their own against all that dark wood. cabinetfurniture.ca

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The industrial designer and textile artist shares the inspirations that keep her loom whirring

In a seaside cottage in Shediac, New Brunswick, the soft hiss and swish of high-tide molds my mood like putty. Breathing in the deep calm—and the smell of last night’s seafood—my mind is miles away from my home in cosmopolitan Toronto. Here, craft feels as grounded as the clams they dig for each morning, and as I prepare for my call with textile artist Laura Carwardine, I can’t help but wonder *Carrie Bradshaw voice* what is the future of textile art in Toronto?

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