My new BFF and her silver Olympic medal
Guess what?? Jenn Heil is every bit as darling and well-spoken and completely real as she appears on television. I mean, where are we getting these absolutely superb young Canadian Olympians? From Alexandre Bilodeau to the delightful Jenn, they couldn’t have been picked out of central casting to embody a more positive Canadian ideal. Continue reading…
Russian Dressing
One thing that is completely different about actually being at the Olympics rather than watching it on tv is that there is no commentary. By that, I mean that there is no introduction of each competitor with a little reel that tells their heartwarming personal backstory, nor is there any live announcer breaking down the action with an explanatory play-by-play. This proves to be both a benefit and a hindrance. Continue reading…
The VAG, gift-wrapped by Michael Lin
The giant floral chintz wrapping the Georgia St entrance of the Vancouver Art gallery is part of an installation called A Modest Veil by artist Michael Lin.
Called “big flower fabric” in Taiwan, the prints were used by couples on their wedding night on dowry duvets, according to artist Michael Lin.
“It’s something from, let’s say, my grandmother’s generation” Lin , who was born in ’64, told the Vancouver Sun. “So it has a certain kind of nostalgia and connection to a collective past.”
The giant gift wrap, a little present to visitors for the Olympic games, is one part of an installation called A Modest Veil that includes floral covers for books in the gallery’s gift shop.
Art books for sale at the VAG bookstore wrapped to match
As Lin pointed out, the mural is now “part of a public dialogue” with the 2010-related banners and “wraps” on the exterior of buildings throughout the city for the Winter Olympics.
Robson Square Rocks Out
Hello from Vancouver, British Columbia, the overprepared and neurotic hostess of the 2010 Winter games, which, but for the much-hyped lack of snow, punishingly politically correct opening ceremonies and chain link fence around the Olympic flame, is actually turning out to be a lot of fun– despite itself. Continue reading…
Israel's new Design Museum
The swanky new Design museum in Holon, just outside of Tel Aviv is the work of internationally recognised designer Ron Arad. When it opens in the spring, it will be one of only 5 museums around the world dedicated purely to design.
Even the light fixtures are waffles at Waffle works
Lazy lovely weekend, but for a crazy fun dinner party we threw Saturday night. Film producer Marty Katz joined us on his own as his wife Laura Trachuk was judging a moot court at U of T over the weekend. He was off this week to meet Giancarlo Giannini in Rome to discuss a film project, as if anything could ever be as fabulous. We were also joined by McClelland & Stewart CEO Doug Pepper, and his wife Susan Burns of Random House who I’ve only recently met but is a riot, Bay marketing man Patrick Dickenson and his wife, the lovely Leigh Gravenor, who I’ve known since she was a girl, the always delightful Moira Wright, event directrice of Holt Renfrew, and her husband, entrepreneur and debonair man-about town Joseph Wilson. Girl about town, writer Ann O’Hagan, and the incredibly handsome Florian, a visiting lawyer from Berlin who had all the women swooning in Thomas’ office, made it a party.
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