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This Creative City: Toronto’s Top Designers of 2016

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Innovating with felt, fibreglass, industrial textile, porcelain and wood, Toronto’s top designers are masters of material.

Toronto’s best designers of 2016 are transforming traditional materials into modern masterpieces. From felt artistry to fashion, ceramics, lighting, and woodworking, these innovators are shaping the city’s design landscape with their bold, boundary-pushing creations.

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The Fabric-ator: Felt Artist Kathryn Walter

Sid Neigum

The Figurehead: Fashion Designer Sid Neigum

Alissa Coe

The Mould Breaker: Ceramicist Alissa Coe

Yoki Milke

The Industrialist: Lighting Designer Yoki Milke

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The Poet of Wood: Peter Coolican

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New Canadian brand Freske is redefining wall design with lightweight cladding solutions

Walls have the power to do more than just physically define a space — their design sets the tone for everything within them. Whether it’s bright and bold fabric wallpaper, textural cladding or geometric acoustic panelling, successful surface solutions are often just as functional as they are visually striking. Enter Canadian wall expert Freske. Launched nationwide this year — and born from a team of material and design professionals — the new Montreal-based brand boasts an impressive portfolio of innovative wall coverings.

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