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Hip to Be Square
Canadian House & Home: June 2008

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While many of us work on coping with challenges specific to boxy apartments — vast blank walls, lack of character, how to eke an eating area, workspace and den out of one room — David Podsiadlo and Amander Schuler, owners of Gus* Design Group sought out such a space, trading their Toronto townhouse for this 2,500 square foot cube, beautifully appointed in its squareness.

 
 
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Via: Canadian House & Home

Images: David Bagosy for Canadian House & Home

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The birds!
Great collection.

posted by theserovingeyes on May 7th 2008 at 9:32am
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I want those birds!

-Eleazar
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posted by blogazar on May 7th 2008 at 9:36am
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Where can we see more pics? Looked at Candadian house and home website and nada.

posted by jede on May 7th 2008 at 9:44am
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Yes-More pix!

posted by MoJonson on May 7th 2008 at 9:52am
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would love it if the gus design group would answer a single email!

or if stylegarage didn't try to pawn off a floor model at a piddly discount when they regularly have 25% off sales.

posted by pinstripeprincess on May 7th 2008 at 10:00am
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Although the bird trend has got to be peaking by now, this is the way to do it. Very cool. I hate trends but wind up participating anyway, both consciously and, as the culture makes its way into my brains defenses, subconsciously. So, I hate the bird trend. But I like birds (and have a few in my space).

This is a story I wrote for about the bird trend for my site:

http://www.strangeclosets.com/2008/03/this-trend-is-for-birds.html

T8
Strangeclosets.com
When design takes priority, the result is often strange closets.

posted by t8 on May 7th 2008 at 10:38am
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Is there any info on the shelving in that top picture? I can make out that it says something about "rough-hewn lumber" for the boards, but I'm curious about what's holding the boards up.

posted by jennifer in sf on May 7th 2008 at 10:43am
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jennifer in sf: looks like basic white metal brackets. You can see them on the right hand side of the picture.

posted by spossberg on May 7th 2008 at 10:50am
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love this! tulip anatomy as art. so creative.

posted by selena on May 7th 2008 at 11:13am
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anybody know anything about the wine rack? i really like it!

posted by ratita on May 7th 2008 at 11:30am
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love that table!

posted by canadian in swedish clothing on May 7th 2008 at 12:04pm
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Actually- does anyone know where that table is from? I assumed it was a gus design but it's not on their website. Can anyone ID it?

posted by canadian in swedish clothing on May 7th 2008 at 1:53pm
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It's probably a custom design by Stylegarage (which is basically Gus):

http://www.stylegarage.com/products/diningtables/xbasetable/xbasetable.shtml

posted by ten_eighteen on May 8th 2008 at 2:58pm
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thanks ten_eighteen!

posted by canadian in swedish clothing on May 12th 2008 at 1:17pm
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spossberg: i think you're right!

posted by jennifer in sf on May 12th 2008 at 1:37pm
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