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Gifts for your cottage valentine from Anneke van Bommel

Touch the Dutch is the Toronto-​​​​based design stu­dio of Cana­dian Artist Anneke van Bom­mel. You may recall her work from our June 2009 issue, where we fea­tured her moose antler rings. Her inspi­ra­tion includes more than just moose, how­ever. As she puts it, she is explor­ing “the themes of value, irony, mem­ory, home, Cana­di­ana, and […]

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Quilts on display

A dis­cus­sion of my visit to an exhibit of antique quilts, Kalei­do­scope, at the Tex­tile Museum of Canada.

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Charles Pachter: Artist, Author, and Cottager

Last night I attended the launch of artist Charles Pachter’s sec­ond children’s book, Canada Counts (Cor­morant Books). The fol­lowup to his alpha­bet book M is for Moose (which you’ll recall we fea­tured in our June 2009 moose decor story), this count­ing book is full of  cot­tage coun­try imagery such as canoes, loons, and corn on the cob. […]

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