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Quirky, Custom Creations with a Sustainable Twist

Since 2001, designer Melanie Zanker has been running Mazzie, a custom furniture and textile design studio for residential and commercial projects. Zanker will happily create a piece to your specifications, but left to her own devices and the Mazzie style is decidedly offbeat and quirky, usually with a reused-material bent. Her retro-toned Love Seat, for instance – with a Baltic birch ply frame, chrome legs and low-pile carpet and fabric upholstery – appears as though it was built from a mishmash of vintage couches, when in fact it’s made entirely from scratch. mazzie.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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