Design

Personal Reflections

Painter-designer Zoë Pawlak unveils collection of mirrors By Janet Wilson Canadian artist Zoë Pawlak doesn’t just make decorative mirrors.  She offers windows into a person’s soul. A longtime landscape and figurative artist, Pawlak has been branching out into the home decor business and...

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Decidedly modern

Ottawa architect Rod Lahey has built a reputation designing contemporary homes like his own: filled with light, clean lines and plenty of space for an eclectic art collection By Sheila Brady Photography by James Park Rod Lahey is in a reflective mood, musing over a lengthy career that has changed...

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ALL ABOUT KARIM

Ottawa Art Gallery  to host major retrospective on prolific designer By Paul Gessell The Garbo is a trash can. It is perhaps the best-known of the thousands of functional, esthetically-pleasing objects, many with sensuous curves, created by Karim Rashid.he vase-shaped, plastic object is called...

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Marching to her own beat

Ottawa designer and style maven Henrietta Southam finds inspiration from fashion, art and decor By Janet Wilson Taking a sip of a frothy café au lait at the Union Street Kitchen Café, a haunt located near her New Edinburgh home, Henrietta Southam waxes poetic about her budding interest in...

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