Come up to my room…

COME UP TO MY ROOM – Jan 21 – 24, 2010 at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

Breaking Rules and Rollicking Raw Ideas

The Gladstone Hotel’s annual alternative design event comes to Toronto between  January 21-24, 2010.  Come Up To My Room has been running for 7 years and the show never presents itself the same way twice.   Designers and artists considered the “outsiders” of traditional design transform  rooms with concepts that will make you change the way you see, touch and hear design.  This is truly a lasting sensory experience – one that titillates and educates.

This year CUTMR has officially joined forces with TIDF (Toronto International Design Festival) which is the new festival celebrating local and international design. 

Some samples of years past:

The Brothers Dressler, who are primarily furniture designers, created a limited series of objects that paid tribute to the extinct artistry of the cobbler. The children of these ‘cobblers’ may not have shoes as they’re too busy combining natural and industrial worlds to create harmony and balance.

The seasoned designer Jacques Bilodeau graced the second floor of the Gladstone in 2008. Jacques transformed space with transformable art.  Mirrored floors reflected a black, mammoth hanging art piece made of carwash brushes and fibre optics and next to it sat a malleable structure that functions as art or can be formed into a seating area.  The purchased art is left to the caprice of the new owner.

Hope to see you there!

Godspeed,