November 3, 2006

Sink or Swim

Canoe Home Store

Fashion you get. Beauty? You’re an expert. But when it comes to interior design, you are up a river without a paddle.

Your lifesaver? Canoe. The Portland-based store recently launched a website chockful of modern, functional pieces from around the world that are sure to make your house into a home.

Spruce up the bathroom with a teak bath mat and some lucky gnome soap. Sip tea from Japanese porcelain animal mugs and serve treats out of the bunny cookie jar. Jazz up bookshelves with Oiva Toikka’s glass birds (species like orioles and herons). Serve vino from a funky hand-blown glass carafe and dinner on lovely Heath ceramics.

The options are endless: Set the mood with an Akari beehive table lamp or make yourself look interesting by placing books like The Green House, Phaidon Design Classics, and Transmaterial on the coffee table. Then keep things safe with a sleek, inconspicuous condom dispenser.

Because Canoe can help anyone paddle with ease.

But some swimmers shouldn’t make it upstream.

Available online at canoeonline.net.