It’s been said that music is food to the heart. Leaning against a lengthy bar in Toronto’s Nota Bene Restaurant, Alexander Neef readily sips on a glass of cool water. A welcome indulgence, after having walked through a bustling Queen West absorbed by an unbearable haze of heat. Neef is noticeably in his element, surrounded …
Marco Guglietti’s home says a lot about the man who lives inside. The family crest atop an Indiana limestone archway offers insight into a unique pedigree; the old-world church bell that chimes three times at noon in his Giacomo Bianchi courtyard vocalizes the importance of preserving the past, and the vacant home next door is …
They say it’s all in the details, and this business of particulars is what Treasure Hill Homes prides itself on. Set across prominent areas in the GTA, beautiful, functional homes for the modern family blend harmoniously with the surrounding locale. “We’re creating communities where we want people to feel that where they live stands out …
Veteran home builder Mario Cortellucci knows a community when he sees one, but it doesn’t necessarily have to exist yet. “It’s in your mind, in your dreams. At night you fall asleep and it comes to you, and the vision is sometimes that you see the city itself in front of you.” This innate ability …
Isadore Sharp settles into a settee in the swanky Four Seasons Presentation Centre, looking the part in a power suit that hardly conceals his unassuming aura. Over the last 50 years, the Canadian-based hotelier has blazed a legendary trail, single-handedly innovating the hotel industry by stocking hotel rooms with shampoo bottles, soft toilet paper, thick …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there’s no one, single entrepreneurship gene. But there are a number of commonalities that entrepreneurial game-changers seem to possess. These are people imbued, it seems, with the power to create businesses and solutions that propel the market forward. These commonalities, or core traits, don’t change much, …
For a man who’s written a bestselling book on the power of first impressions, you could say that Malcolm Gladwell has an unfair advantage tonight. He’s back in his former stomping ground, under the lights of the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, to accept an award for his groundbreaking literary accolades. Standing solo, the internationally revered …
"It’s all about research,” says CTV sports broadcaster Brian Williams as he pulls from his bag a sizable folder bursting with documents. He shuffles through page after page of newspaper clippings and printed information, rhyming off all the significant facts and amusing tidbits he’ll keep at a mental arm’s reach for the 2012 Summer Olympics. …
Every day, the Earth turns, just like the billions upon billions of times it has before, always moving, always changing, shifting with each tick of the clock. Evolving, even if only minutely, with each passing second. Empires rise and fall, mighty kings come and go, and great beasts that once ruled vast domains are but …
It's an unusual world, the one Karim Rashid occupies. It’s an environment comprising smooth, glossy plastics, bustling with seemingly nonsensical, free-flowing shapes and radiating with bold, vivid colours that defy conventional standards. It’s a surreal landscape that he envisions, but it’s also a contemporary one. It’s a world made to match our technologic existence; yet, …
