The Changing Meanings of Luxury and Privacy During COVID
Perspective shifts.
NUVO Thoughts: Privacy may well become more and more coveted, but its connotations will change, as things often do in dire times.
Vancouver Queer Film Festival Goes Virtual for 2020
The show goes on.
Screening online from August 13 to 23, the film festival will feature over 60 films from 10 countries, as well as virtual Q&As with filmmakers, panels, parties, and workshops.
Pedicurist to the Stars Bastien Gonzalez on How to Take Care of Your Feet
Toes up.
His Pedi:Mani:Cure studios are in more than 20 hotels around the world, and he has his own product line.
This Online-Only Houseplant Company Delivers Greenery Right to Your Home
Planting the seed.
Plantsome, has created a foolproof platform to bring locally grown greenery into people’s homes and keep it there.
Designer Spotlight: NIVEK REMAS
Ever evolving.
Toronto designers Samer Shaath and Kevin Chan are the duo behind upstart firm NIVEK REMAS, and all their projects take on distinct forms to fit the specific situation.
Corks, Screw Caps, or Other Solutions?
The closure debate.
Corks, screw caps, and other ways of sealing bottles are referred to as closures in the wine business. But there’s no closure to the debate over the best way to seal a bottle of wine.
Design-Forward Pet Furniture That Purrfectly Blends in With Your Home
How the furry half lives.
No one wants a shag carpeted cat tree or lumpy dog bed in the middle of their carefully curated, well-designed living room. Luckily, these brands have taken notice and set to work designing pet furniture that is functional, suitable, and most importantly beautiful.
Malene Barnett Upends White Space
A Brooklyn artist turns the interior design industry inside out.
In the absence of equity, the Black Artists + Designers Guild are decolonizing a system that works against them—together, they are breaking through the white noise.
Where Cars and Clothing Meet, You Find This Mechanic Turned Tailor
Bespoke 2.0.
Designer Mike-Paul Neufville is a car mechanic turned bespoke tailor whose brand, Mike-Paul Atelier, is attracting attention in his adopted hometown of Toronto and beyond.
