An interior designer's art-filled loft in a Toronto factory
Designer Dimitri Chris and his husband live in a converted 1900s factory loft packed with art, vintage finds and family icons.
Dimitri Chris is an interior designer, and his 1,200 sq ft Toronto loft shows how he works. He and his husband had wanted to live in this converted factory for years. The original 1900s windows and the big beam over the bedroom remind him of old buildings in Berlin and Amsterdam.
Art comes first. Dimitri tells clients not to buy a piece unless they love it, and he follows his own rule. A spin painting by Toronto's Callen Schaub was one of the first things the couple bought together. They each picked the same heart at a friend's show in Montreal before they knew the other wanted it. Mirrored camera sculptures by an Argentine artist still fool guests into thinking they're being filmed.
He mixes vintage, antique and new. A pair of 1970s Cassina LC2 chairs in orange sit in the living room. He found a 1962 Canadian rosewood liquor cabinet on Facebook Marketplace. A 10-foot plexiglass table, a prototype from a client project, seats the 10 to 14 people they host each week.
The owners let him refinish the scratched kitchen in a deep brown-black. His grandfather's Greek Orthodox icons hang near the kitchen and the bed.
