Category Archives: Cynthia Findlay Collection

Art Deco: A Lesson

Only in retrospect was art deco design called “art deco.” When the founders of the art deco movement, The Society of the Decorator Artists, met in Paris in 1925, they called their new design “moderne.” Modern art is a much more fitting name for the art deco movement, which tried to aesthetically represent the technological [...]
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Modern Fairy Tale

I wasn’t in the store when Kate and Kyle first came to shop. I was at an early-morning social media marketing workshop. After a morning of discussing SEO and ROI, I wearily walked into Toronto Antiques on King, latte in hand, and I quickly noticed that I had walked into a modern, real-life fairy tale. [...]
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Royal Wedding

What news network will you be watching on April 28th? (ahem, the day of the Royal Wedding). Are you throwing an early-morning breakfast with vegemite on toast? Will you dress up? Whatever you’re doing, we can only assume that you will be wearing a faux Kate Middleton ring to celebrate the occasion. That is Darrin’s, [...]
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Royal Wedding: The Countdown

Hello everyone! The royal wedding is fast approaching and we are obsessed.  We love romance, rings and large ceremonies. But the real reason is that we (happily) have not recovered from childhood princess fantasies. To be a bride is to be a princess. We see princess’ every day and we help to make their moments [...]
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Make Earth Hour Last All Year by Buying Vintage

On March 26th (tomorrow) millions of people around the world will turn off all their electricity between 8:30 and 9:30 to observe earth hour. For those of us who live in cities, downtown will feel like a super-hopeful Gotham city. This year earth hour organizers are asking us to go, “beyond the hour, [and] after [...]
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