Most Canadian families have a link to the old world. As designers we often face the challenges of merging heirlooms and artifacts with a contemporary aesthetic. This is such a home where the interiors have been shaped at the intersection of nature with architecture, shapes of the past with those of the present. The rooms are permeated with light; some furniture is fluidly bonded with of the architecture, like the floating dining room buffet suspended between two columns, while other, stands like art objects on display.
The simplicity of detail in the modern pieces is deliberate and its intent is to harmonize with the more traditional pieces. The Owners asked for lightness, for the incorporation of their inherited pieces in a contemporary aesthetic.
A thin veil separates the interior from exterior, the old land of birth from the new land of immigration, the nostalgia and inheritance of the past from the forward-looking aspirations of the future.
