Spotted in the alley behind the 100 block of Osborne. I’ve been watching a lot of Sesame Street lately, and hanging out with Bert has me especially attuned to pigeons.
In a moment of ominous clarity, I saw through the Matrix yesterday while unlocking my Superstore cart. Disguised as a simple ad for pharmacy services, the Overlord’s PR department quietly assured me domestic duties aren’t that bad.
EQ3 Plus is “a partnership between EQ3 and a growing list of iconic brands, including Herman Miller, Alessi, Stelton, Vitra, Pablo and Design House Stockholm”.
In the face of an impending Ikea rock-bottom prices invasion, EQ3 is repositioning upmarket, à la Le Château in the mid-2000′s.
We checked out the Thursday night launch party, replete with sushi, wine, dj, and 10% off for designers (aw!). Here’s a look at the midcentury classics now available in the Peg.
The Panton junior chair would make an adorable holiday gift for the stylish toddler in your life (in lime, please, Grandma), and is appropriately priced at $130 (I know from coveting it on the internet).
Trend: a cross-stitchy craft kind of thing. Drawn-on-your-binder-with-a-Bic-in-grade-7 fonts have become ubiquitous, and the man-vs-machine tech-softening hand-crafted aesthetic needs to evolve.
You can tell it’s a style trend as opposed to a comment on the zeitgeist because it makes virtually no sense in every context presented below. (If someone understands the MTS ones, please comment. Are they Xmas tea towels?)
Prediction: when cable-knit backgrounds peter out, we will see a resurgence of Neuropol and rave flyers.
