Meet Our 2024 Love Tag Recipients

Join us in celebrating the creativity and talent of our 2024 Love Tag recipients, from colour-bursting art installations to innovative product designs, booth designs and everything in between.

Ultraleggera Chair

Designer: Zieta
Key Feature: Beyond its composition of fully-recycled aluminum, “the world’s lightest chair” is made with less than 3 kilograms of material.

The Nike Onile Art & Design Foundation

Designers: Tommy Smythe, Danielle Nicholas Bryk, Samantha Pynn
Key Feature: Inspired by the late designer Nike Onile’s ethos of joy, wellness and beauty in the home, this booth marks the official launch of the NO-AD Foundation, which aims to support diverse Canadian artists and creatives as they embark of their careers.

Contour Console Table

Designer: Objects&Ideas
Key feature: Connects to the concept of landscape by using wavy forms in a washed finish that mimic contour lines on a topographic map.

Sustainable Acoustic-Product Design

Designer: Ayrsonics
Key Feature: EzoBord-integrated lighting fixture in collaboration with wallpaper design company Robin Sprong.

Journey Through Geometry

Designer: Safoura Zahedi
Key Feature: Inspired by fractal forms in nature, the digitally fabricated sculpture is made of a repeating single unit comprised of fully reusable material.

Och Works

Designer: Isabel Ochoa and James Clarke-Hicks
Key feature: 3D-printed ceramic lighting and sculpture trimmed, fired and glazed like traditional pottery.

The System 00 Prefab A-Frame

Designer: The Backcountry Hut Company
Key Feature: Measuring in at 10×10 feet at ground level, this modern prefabricated cabin can be built from start-to-finish in under a week.

Montauk Sofa

Designer: Danny Chartier
Key feature: Monochromatic fabric dressing and unveiling of the brand’s newest sofa design.

The DGC 7870 Combi Steam Oven

Designer: Miele
Key feature: Motion sensor oven light and integrated vacuum sealing drawer.

ceramics by LJM

Designer: Laura Jean Marie
Key feature: Made-to-order collection of dinnerware born out of the artist’s ongoing project with Prime Seafood Palace.

Pola Collection @ Milky’s

Designer: anony
Key feature: A rolled sheet of steel fills with warm light to augment a juxtaposition of hard and soft throughout the collection.

The Tilt Lounging Set

Designer: Mark Khoury
Key feature: An adjustable back rest that swings for custom comfort.

 

Mark Krebs Handmade Wool Rugs

Designer: Mark Krebs
Key feature: Montrealer Mark Krebs collaborates with weavers in India to produce a beautiful collection of colourful and soft handmade wool rugs in livable tones.

The FOTILE 2-in-1 In-Sink Dishwasher

Designer: FOTILE
Key feature: A top-loading, water-conserving dishwasher that fits into your sink, which saves space while providing additional counter surface.

Reversible Candle Holders

Designer: AND Ceramic Studio
Key feature: These pieces can be flipped to hold either a candlestick or tea light.

Venezia Taps

Designer: Fantini Rubinetti
Key feature: Each of these jewel-like handles are made of Murano glass are entirely bespoke.

Canada Custom Shutters

Designer: Canada Custom Shutters
Key feature: Beautiful solid-wood shutters for exterior and interior boasting modern and traditional designs.

Roche Bobois Bombom series

Designer: Joana Vasconcelos
Key feature: A playful (and insanely comfortable) collection of sofas made for exterior or indoor use in a confectionary palette. The backrests are all mobile, allowing you to personalize your comfort.

Style Garage and The Plant Studio by Terra

Designer: Stylegarage
Key feature: The luxurious and locally made Marcelle sofa by Style Garage is a classic, especially when set within a tropical setting thanks to The Plant Studio by Terra. Over 150 tropical plants transformed this little oasis, highlighting the brilliant colour of the velvet upholstery.

 

Tav Ceramics

Designer: Tanvi Arora
Key feature: This Vancouver-based ceramics studio specializes in lighting and objects with unique presence. This piece captured our hearts for its celestial form and tactile base.

BLOKK

Designer: Noam Hazan
Key feature: A new venture for the architect behind our 2023 Top Renovations issue cover, BLOKK offers a flat-packed, easy-to-assemble prefab garden suite replete with a pull-down bed, extendable dining table, kitchen, office and bathroom.

HUTT by CABN

Designer: CABN
Key feature: A prefab outbuilding that’s small in footprint, but big in impact. Solar-powered and detailed as a cozy modern cabin, this outbuilding is constructed with sustainably grown timber.

Pretty Secrets @ Mararamiro

Designer: Sarah Holloway
Key feature: The Morning Glory table lamp by Sarah Holloway plays with form in a raw and nostalgic way.

Thirtyfour Parking Garages in Toronto

Artist: Doublespace Photography 
Key feature: This photo exhibit explores a thought-provoking topic of what our future looks like in a city where real estate is at a premium and a shift from automobile-serving urban planning is on the rise.

Nourish: Connecting Through Dumplings

Designer: Mason Studio
Key feature: Ceramic dumpling wrappers floating above the studio’s gallery space.

Riso Ruckus

Designer: Vikki Wiercinski
Key feature: Highlighting the joy of print culture in our lives today, Japanese risograph stencil was used to create hand-folded paper cubes featuring vibrant graphics.