Where's the beef?

Modena's Hosteria Giusti has been tailored for the truly epicurious.  Garnished with a cut of secrecy, it reigns supreme in it's designed approach.
Beckoning from an ominous Freemans-style alley, the salumeria requires patrons to call from a hull of darkness.  Once reservation has been confirmed, louvered doors swing open and light reveals a lilliputian dining emporium scaled around four dining tables.  Andiamo.

Culturally Uplifting

West 8 designed this undulating thread which buffers Toronto's spread of Lake Ontario.  Appearing to be contorted from seismic activity,  it's pallid gesture is a unique silhouette along the monotony of pedestrian paving.  The amalgamation of form and function that play on proportion and scale.... beautility.

Heeling hijinks

A perfect pairing.

the lexicon of street

Graffiti artist, Barry McGee tats his serifs with a candy striper slant.  The double wide sidewalk and picture lights persuades the diffident urban landscape to transform to gallery art form.  
                                

The Bomb

The transition between stone and lawn can be an abrupt mess.  With the addition of these grenade-esque sculptures, they smooth the passageway along this threshold with a Mycenaean edge .

Between Tread and Rise Find Stile

For several weeks "staircases" have been romancing my periphery vision.  Enjoyably, the skeletal thread that binds this infrastructure together is a nautilus-inspired interruption to my linear persuasion.

Ground Control to Major Tom

Janus et Cie, maker of all things stunning, has launched their new line of futuristic outdoor furnishings.  This set certainly solves the conundrum of how to store your patio furniture over the the shoulder season. 
Headquarters must have been boning up on the Gestalt theory when this baby was hatched.  Part function, part sculpture... Fly me to the moon.
 

crosby redux

Just when the ink from my latest post on the Crosby Street Hotel became stale, they beckon me with a third digit....a rooftop culinary garden.  Should stars align, reel yourself into the Sunday program. Enjoy the screening room while you dine on locavore deliciousness and then tuck yourself into the folds of the Meadow Suite for a full throttle circumference of the Crosby campus. 

scarpetta

Scarpetta's  dining pavilion is a well braced addition to Toronto's downtown core.  One main dining table references summer camp chic as it collides with the urban landscape.