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When Chan Hon Goh’s parents – both professional dancers- drove past a 1912 neoclassical building in Vancouver in the
late ’70s, the ballerinas fell hard. “This looks like a classical
academy. This looks like a dance school,” they gushed. In
1985, they founded the Goh Ballet Academy in that same
heritage building. Today, Goh, a former principal dancer at
the National Ballet of Canada, has established an outpost
- Send me an Angel
The Sainte pendants by Lambert & Fils are
open rectangles of layered glass (there are five
styles to choose from) pierced and suspended
by robust nylon straps. Hang in overlapping
multiples for a kaleidoscopic effect. PRICE
UPON REQUEST, AT KLAUS - Ra Ra Ra
Suspended from barely there silicone cables,
the rectangular, hand-bent tube of D’Armes’
Ra pendant – lit by cold cathode neon, with a
natural or black oxidized brass finish – has us
cheering. $2860, AT STYLEGARAGE
Mad for Made-in-Montreal Lighting
Three crazy-cool new luminaires straight out of Quebecph
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Space to Visit
Batay-Csorba Architects creates
an airy home for a ballet academy- in a shopping mall
- Celestial Body
Inspired by lunar halos – an aura created by
light refracting off atmospheric ice crystals –
the modular Luna pendant by Gabriel Scott
does indeed dazzle with its blown-glass vessels
orbiting a softly glowing diffuser. PRICE UPON
REQUEST, AT HOLLACE CLUNY
at the Bayview Village mall in North York. Sure, the upscale
plaza is a far cry from the family’s West Coast jewel. But
thanks to Batay-Csorba Architects, Goh has pulled off a
light landing in suburbia. An accordion-like wall treatment,
a vividly pink ceiling, starry suspension lights and plenty of
headspace (for those lifts!) ease the transition from shopping
concourse to graceful school. BATAY-CSORBA .COM;
GOHBALLET.COM