21 Sep

Innovation

“Commute Home” is a designer’s brand that can think globally. This way of thinking found its reflection in life when the team created a fascinating interior design for the restaurant “Patria” in Toronto.

In the late Middle Ages cross-stitch embroidery was actually a pastime for the upper class ladies. This eventually became one of the most versatile and easiest-to-use techniques of patterning fabrics. In this respect, the adjective “tried-and-true” reflects both the content and the figurative sense of this technique.

Marlo Onilla from the “Biography” remembered it when he was looking for dramatic, visual elements for the design of a restaurant serving Spanish tapas (a “tried-and-true” dish as well), located in the very heart of modern Toronto.

Among the project development participants, together with the “Commute Home” and the “Biography”, there were other stars of the Canadian interior design scene: Henry Salonen, who designed a supporting steel framework, Laura Carwardine, who was working at the patterns design. Finally, after 485 hours of work and 17109 made stitches, a room of about 50 square meters in size was decorated.

We are sure that the result of the work is easily noticed!

During the research, we found a strange fact: the closer we came to the project, the longer grew the list of participants. It took us only some moments to understand that Canada works in a different way. Then we were charmed by such really simple interior design project that managed to become the core of such intense interdisciplinary discussion.

We hope you feel the same way!

Photo and video by Henry Salonen

Author: KAJ

Based on the materials of http://www.i-teria.com