Queen Street West
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas St W
Frank Gehry’s magnificent $276-million expansion, which includes the addition of a titanium-covered tower, has added 47 per cent more exhibit spac...
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Atelier 688
688 Richmond ST W, STE #201
On a typical Saturday at Alex Jowett’s home, strangers wander in and out, coming to admire, and possibly buy, the eclectic furnishings and art tha...
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Atomic Design
965 Queen St W
Lawrence Blairs has been trading in decorative Scandinavian glass art and 20th-century industrial furniture for over a decade. A British expat, h...
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Birch Libralato
129 Tecumseth St
Following the lead of many small contemporary art spaces, Birch Libralato's outward appearances are deceptively down market – the entrance to the ...
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Blvd Interiors
570 Queen St W
Affordable contemporary furnishings for the home and office are on prominent display at Blvd Interiors. The range of space-saving, multifunctiona...
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Bungalow
273 Augusta Ave
Fashionable thrift stores are a dime a dozen in Kensington Market, but local furniture fiends know to hit up Bungalow for used yet unique pieces...
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BÖHMER
93 OSSINGTON AVE
This 100-plus-seat European contemporary restaurant on a strip best known for its tiny, one note bars is a study in juxtapositions. The wooden bar is pr...
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City Hall
100 Queen St W
Finnish architect Viljo Revell won the worldwide competition to design Toronto’s new City Hall in 1958. His design included two curved towers, one...
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Clint Roenisch Gallery
944 Queen St W
This bohemian-looking space provides an unobtrusive but near-perfect setting for dealer Clint Roenisch's stylish selections. But don't be fooled by the ...
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Commute Home
819 Queen St W
This stylish store mixes vintage finds with the proprietors’ own line of reclaimed exotic wood furniture. Solid walnut consoles wit...
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Delux
92 Ossington Ave
Montrealer Corinna Mozo’s French bistro hints at her Cuban background. À la carte and daily specials please and servers provide well-inform...
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Ella + Elliot
188 Strachan Ave
This beautifully designed space is stylish tot central, located a few baby steps south of Queen on Strachan. With a vast selection of contemporary fu...
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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
145 Queen St W
Diamond + Schmitt Architects’ dark manganese iron-spot brickwork and glorious glass facade is a beacon at the busy corner of Queen Street West and...
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Frank
AGO, 317 Dundas St W
With every new museum that opens, a designer restaurant is born. At least that’s what’s been happening over the past few years, with the ROM...
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Function13
156 Augusta Ave
More than just a bookstore, Function13 explores the blurry boundaries between art, design and technology. In addition to a well-chosen selection of d...
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Georgia Scherman Projects
133 Tecumseth St.
A relatively new gallery with lots of ambition, Georgia Scherman shows some of the country's top artists, including John Massey and Spring Hurlbut, plus...
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Good Egg
267 Augusta Ave
Good Egg is “dedicated to those who like to eat,” says owner Mika Bareket. Half of the inventory in this sunny Kensington shop is devoted to...
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Green Roof Demonstration Project
100 Queen St W
Installed in 2000, the Green Roof Demonstration Project, located at the podium roof of City Hall, is now a thriving rooftop garden. A pilot project desi...
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Gus* Studio
940 Queen St W
Owned by neighbouring Stylegarage, Gus* Design Group is a Toronto studio noted for its no-fuss forms and FSC-certified materials. The space itsel...
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Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
1450 Dundas St W
This small gallery first opened in 2005 and is now firmly established in the local scene, even though its offbeat location on Dundas West sets it apart fro...
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KOL KID
674 QUEEN ST W
Lisa Miyasaki’s busy store is known for its toys and super-cute toddler clothes, but there are also decor accessories for kids’ rooms...
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Lausberg Contemporary
880 Queen St W
Located along Queen West’s art gallery strip, this small commercial gallery is the Toronto outpost of Bernd A. Lausberg, who also operates a galle...
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Love of Mine
781 QUEEN ST W
This particular stretch of Queen Street West, just past Bathurst Street, is where to go for industrial-chic lighting (Commute Home), classic modern chai...
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Magic Pony
694 Queen St W
A toy store for adults, the Queen Street favourite features limited-edition books, gadgets and doodads that range from artwork, stationery and T-...
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Ministry of the Interior
80 Ossington Ave
Located in a former auto body garage, this furniture and accessories shop showcases innovative pieces by international cutting-edge designers, wi...
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Morba
665 Queen St W
Quirky and accessible, Morba has been on Queen Street for more than a decade, and – unlike some shops in the area – it won’t leave you...
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Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen St W
While its name sounds grandiose, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is actually run on a city-budgeted shoestring and operates out of a large but r...
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My Design Republic
639 Queen St W
Behind the austere facade of Queen Street West’s historic Burroughes Building lies My Design Republic, a 929-square-metre showroom filled with plu...
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NOTA BENE
180 QUEEN ST W
Nota Bene – the place is perfectly named. It was the last thing added to the KPMB's federal court building at Queen and University, arriving like ...
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Nadège
780 QUEEN ST W
Designed in collaboration with Nelson Kwong Architects, Nadège Nourian’s pastry shop resembles one of her desserts: little bursts of flavou...
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Neat Storage Essentials
628 QUEEN ST
Quality design, sensible use of materials and utilitarian practicality are the three golden rules at Neat, a dream-come-true kitchen, bath and home a...
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OCAD Sharp Centre for Design
100 McCaul St
Toronto has never been known for having an overabundance of architecture that could be called cheeky, unorthodox or controversial. All that changed when...
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OneTwenty Modern
120 Ossington Ave
This Ossington Avenue spot is the sister store to Queen West's Quasi Modo. Selling more high-end furnishings than its sibling, Onetwenty carries mainly ...
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PRELOVED
881 QUEEN ST W
If you didn’t already know, you’d never guess Preloved was one of the many businesses gutted by a massive fire on Queen West in February 200...
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Paloranta Art & Furnishing
833 Queen St W
This shop operates as an art gallery for owner Teemu Paloranta’s large abstract paintings and as a small boutique of contemporary Scandinavian ...
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Quasi Modo Modern Furniture
789 Queen St W
The three-level, one-stop mod shop carries furniture and accessories by all the heavy hitters of 20th-century modern design, including Artemide, ...
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Roseland Gallery
702 Queen St W
This art and design boutique is the equivalent of a global village – modern vases by Italy’s Gatti share space with antiques f...
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Shop AGO
317 Dundas St W
The AGO’s gift shop is well-stocked with Frank Gehry merch (T-shirts, books, postcards, mugs) along with his famous corrugated cardboard fu...
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Skypad
183 Bathurst St, Suite 200
Skypad isn’t a typical showroom or even a store; it’s the studio space of furniture designer Paul Rosen, who has made a name for hims...
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Stylegarage
938 Queen St W
All the furnishings here are Canadian designed, many of them the creations of co-owner and designer David Podsiadlo, who prefers his furniture to be ...
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Type Books
883 Queen St W
Joanne Saul and Samara Walbohm's little-bookstore-that-could has expanded. Having conquered the Parkdale hipsters with a trendy store at Trinity Bellwoo...
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Ultra Supper Club
314 Queen St W
Alligator-grain leather sofas and a wacky chicken and feather motif on the walls (by Munge Leung) – yes, Ultra’s had yet a...
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Umbra Concept Store
165 John St
Umbra’s concept store, designed by Kohn Shnier Architects, is clad in translucent vertical pink bands that make the building glow like a Japanese ...
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Urban Mode
145 Tecumseth St
Modern design at Urban Mode ranges from classic to contemporary. This store caters to small space dwellers by offering such items as Blomus...
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