It’s always a joy to see Canadian designers in our travels to international design fairs — it’s even better when they’re the talk of the town. Such was the scene in Milan, where Andlight and Lambert & Fils both created stunning installations at Alcova, a beacon for brave design talents. We have also seen fantastic works from our fellow Canadians in New York (Anony, Simon Johns and Hamilton Holmes among them), in the global design media, and — yes, major


Currently based in Nova Scotia, Evan Jerry of Studio Anansi

The only Canadian designer featured in Phaidon’s Woman Made anthology, Mary Ratcliffe is best known for her beautifully crafted wood furniture, but the pandemic saw her delving into the creation of housewares as well. Just this spring, as she recently told


Vancouver’s Andlight, led by Matt Davis, Caine Heintzman and Lukas Peet, has been going from strength to strength since its founding in 2013. But its biggest moment on the international stage arguably happened in June, when it installed the Offcut Bar at Alcova, an offsite venue boasting the most impressive collective of designers from around the world. Featuring its stunning Column lights, and designed in collaboration with


Sarah Yao-Rishea won the Prototype competition at IDS in Toronto with Alcove, then hit WantedDesign in New York with her ikebana-inspired vase as part of the Launch Pad cohort. We predict that the


This Quebec designer’s Future Fossils series — which integrates sedimentary rock-esque forms made from gypsum cement and slip-cast stoneware into clean aluminum grids — was one of our favourite standouts from


Another talent who wowed Milan, design house


We’ve been watching Jamie Wolfond’s star rise for years now. In 2018, he sold his popular Good Thing line to West Elm and set out to focus exclusively on design, having moved back to his native Toronto from New York (where he had attended RISD). The decision proved auspicious, as his work has since been displayed in Stockholm and Milan (at last September’s Alcova showing), among other major destinations, and he kicked off a collaboration with New York design gallery Matter that resulted in this instant-classic light, Balloon.




Toronto’s Stacklab is having a most memorable year — largely thanks to its latest venture, Stackabl. The furniture design system, a co-production with New York gallery Maison Gerard, allows customers to build a unique piece by sourcing and upcycling left-over felt from factories — call it “waste made wonderful,” which is what we did when Stackabl


We’ve been admiring Tom Chung’s work for awhile now, and so has the rest of the world. The Vancouver- and Rotterdam-based designer recently showed his Piton lamp, for Danish manufacturer Muuto, during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen. We also feature it in our current issue, as a bold representative of the
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