DesignTO Tours: Inside a Geary Avenue Creative Hub
Join DesignTO for an exclusive house tour on Geary Avenue. Experience two unique industrial lofts filled with contemporary art, designer furniture, and plants.
In 2017, four friends (two couples) jointly purchased a 14,000 square foot shipping warehouse on Geary Avenue. Over the next two years architect Tamira Sawatzky and artist Elle Flanders (collaboratively Public Studio), with designer Shaun Moore (Made Design) and florist Todd Caldwell (Emblem Flowers) transformed the industrial building into their homes and work spaces. The attached buildings contain three apartments, three retail spaces, and four rental artist studios.
During this behind-the-scenes hours tour, experience two spacious and light-filled second-floor lofts. The owners will share some of the challenges they faced along the way and lessons learned in completing this kind of conversion, plus the joys of long-time friendships and living under one roof.
Read more about Moore and Caldwell’s apartment in this Designlines article, and Sawatzky and Flanders’ apartment in this Globe and Mail article, but experience these special spaces yourself by joining the tour.
Event Schedule
6:00pm – Doors Open
6:15pm – House Tour Begins
Event Location
The exact address for the house tour will be shared with ticket holders. Please respect the privacy of the homeowners by keeping their address confidential.
DesignTO Futures Fund
This event is in support of the DesignTO Futures Fund, our first annual fundraising campaign that fuels the future of Canadian design. Your ticket directly contributes to the non-profit organization’s public programming and annual design festival.
Continuing Education
Guests that log professional continuing education hours can request a certificate for 1 hour of structured learning after they attend the tour.
When
Thursday, July 17, 2025
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Where Geary & Ossington Avenue
Cost $100 + HST
CEUs 1 Structured Learning Hour
Host DesignTO
