Thor Svaboe

Drive north from Toronto along Highways 400 and 11, and the subdivisions keep arriving, each one a little further from the city that spawned them.

Beau Lake has spent years perfecting the things that sit beside the water, including paddleboards finished to a top-tier standard, chairs, small objects of a well-appointed dock.

Understated elegance in rectangular form can be as appealing as it is difficult to pull off, but the Kiwame Tokyo Yane pulls it off - on a budget, too.

In La Chaux-de-Fonds, Maximin Chapuis and Jason Chevrolat are both still under 30, but have already been in the industry for many years.

For most of the past two decades, technology in the home meant committing to a wall. The screen went up, the speakers went in, and the room arranged itself around them.

We have learned health backward, Thom Tullo argues. We celebrate the stimulus, meaning the workout, the hustle and the long hours, while treating everything after it as the absence of effort.

Studio Caban has built its reputation on subtraction, designing rooms that hold their materials quietly and leave the view alone.

The Muskoka chair is a fixed point of the Canadian summer: wide arms, low slouch, angled at the water and largely unchanged for the better part of a century.

After the blossom comes the root and the fruit: Renaud Tixier closes its Organica triptych with two new grand feu enamel dials.

Indoor air is the last thing in a well-run home nobody thinks about. We choose the water, the coffee, the light, and then breathe whatever the room