I spent most of my morning trying to figure out how I could move into Teatro Verde’s breathtaking new retail space without being discovered. More thought required. I have competition from many who attended the store’s media preview today. Tricky.
One of Canada’s top garden and lifestyle shops for exquisite floral and design finds, furnishings, decorative accents, collectibles and chic gifts, Teatro Verde opens doors this Friday to its new flagship home at 100 Yorkville (in the 1930s, the building was Mount Sinai Hospital). Celebrated for their eclectic artistic vision, owners Shawn Gibson and Michael Pellegrino are well-known style experts on the design circuit: Gibson is a regular contributor on CTV and on shows such as “House & Home,” “Canada AM,” “Etalk,” and “Cityline;” and Pellegrino, a top landscape design architect, makes frequent media appearances of his own.
I fell in love with luxuriously soft oversize pillows, charming birdcage tableware (that my friend Jenn and I decided would make fabulous wall art), gleaming metal dragons, Chinese pagoda pieces, giant metal buddha heads, adorable kids’ stuff, outrageously pretty stationery, quirky copper garden frogs, a beauty department stocked with delicious bath and body products including Fresh and Island Living by India Hicks…. Everything I could ever love lives at Teatro Verde. Price points range from wonderfully affordable to ohmygoodness; not finding a gift for someone at Teatro seems an impossibility (my friend Liza calls the entire shop a gift guide).
Drop by and visit anytime. I love visitors.
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You really must read the children’s book From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for a tutorial on how to live in a public place (kids run away from home and hide out at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art). Best children’s book ever.
And you can read it curled up in that great armchair at the front of Teatro Verde, (you know, near the chocolates…)
I was walking around with my mouth wide open in complete and utter awe (except when I popped a chocolate into it!) What a gorgeous store!
I do love a valuable life lesson. Also, a photo of me reading that book in Teatro would be awesome for anyone familiar with the title! Let’s stage it!
You can come to stay with me sometime — there’s plenty of room! *grin*
Oh, I’ll do the photo! ;-)
That reading-at-Teatro photo would by MY projectlove.ca image, Holly!