Each year, Toronto’s Interior Design Show celebrates new products, furniture, and design concepts from companies and industry leaders in Canada and around the world. The 2019 show, held January 17 to 20, jumped to a new location, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and was a bigger event with a redesigned show floor. The show also debuted IDS Contract, a trade-only exposition with more than 100 exhibitors and a 60-session conference program. Highlights at the “Power of Design”-theme show included the launch of a new cabin living space from Backcountry Hut Company and an address from Google's Kat Holmes.
Here, take a look at some of the inventive trade show booths that caught attendees’ attention.
The Backcountry Hut Company launched its Great Lakes Cabin, a full-scale concept house, at IDS19 in partnership with Leckie Studio Architecture & Design. Visitors could enter the 670-square-foot home, which is envisioned as a modular cabin that could be delivered as a flat pack kit of parts. Custom design and build firm Flattery Design created the space’s landscape on site at IDS19, while AyA Kitchens debuted its latest line of cabinetry, AyA Elite, inside the cabin.
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Miele staged 45-minute sit-down meals at its Miele cooking theater, with hourly performances to showcase the latest in kitchen appliances and cooking trends. Beyond the culinary experiences, Miele ambassadors demonstrated laundry innovations and handleless appliances.
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Dutch designer Marije Vogelzang, who specializes in working with food, partnered with kitchen countertop company Caesarstone to debut "Seeds" at the Interior Design Show. This was the first installment of Vogelzang and Caesarstone's 2019 collaboration. The interactive installation took viewers through the life cycle of a seed from inception to menu ingredient, with different stations surrounded by colorful ribbons.
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Arc & Co. designed a futuristic booth for Wynn Audio, meant to resemble a modern gramophone. The gold booth required visitors to venture in by ducking under the entrance to block out the outside world, allowing them to focus on a wall of sound coming from Wynn Audio's high-end speakers.
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The Benjamin Moore booth highlighted the brand’s 2019 color trends, specifically its color of the year: Metropolitan AF690, a sophisticated gray with cool undertones, which set the tone for the Sharon Grech-designed booth.
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Cosentino’s booth showed off new color releases from Dekton and Silestone, as seen in everything from flooring to countertops to fireplace cladding while dramatic lighting illuminated large format slabs. The company received the show’s Silver Award in the category for best booth design of booths measuring 601 square feet and larger.
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Gladstone Hotel's "Come Up To My Room" booth showcased a sample of work from the hotel’s alternative design exhibition, which invited artists and designers to create immersive installations within the backdrop of the historic 130-year-old boutique hotel.
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Printing company Astley-Gilbert collaborated on all the signage and wayfinding elements for the Interior Design Show and used playful, interactive elements to showcase the company’s in-house design team at its own booth.
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PurParket produces wide-plank engineered hardwood, and the PurParket Inc. x Mason Studio concept booth explored the intrinsic beauty of wood in its various states of existence—from its natural state and beyond.
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