The projects that made the cut for The Globe and Mail’s new annual feature Designing Canada, in partnership with EQ3, highlight how Canadian designers are inspired by the unique ways we live from coast to coast. The projects of the year in residential architecture, interiors and housewares embrace those idiosyncratic landscapes, celebrate a home full of favourite things and embrace new takes on traditional craftsmanship
We hew pretty closely to first principles in design. We don’t really see the need to jettison the inheritance of craftsmanship, the proportion, the form, the meaning and intent, but we try to translate those principles into a language that’s relevant to today and deals with the context we are working in.