Baril launches a faucet collection with fashion designer Marie Saint Pierre
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Baril is brimming with good news: the high-end faucet manufacturer had just won a 2022 Red Dot Design Award for its Flora collection when it announced the launch of a new collection designed in collaboration with fashion designer Marie Saint Pierre.
The partnership with Maison Marie Saint Pierre and the Marie collection were unveiled at the Interior Design Show in Toronto, held April 7-10.
“People’s reactions are fun to watch. It really gives us a “wow”! exclaims Marie-Ève Baril, president of Baril, on the phone from the showroom.
Marie Saint Pierre and the Baril team have designed a collection of bathroom faucets whose spherical elements could hardly be refined any further.
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Marie Saint Pierre and Marie-Ève Baril, president of Baril, at the Toronto exhibition where their collection was presented, April 7
Its hot and cold water handles are colored globes that appear to be simply deposited on the surface of the vanity. Independent of the faucet spout and of each other, the two spheres can be installed wherever desired on the furniture.
“Imperfect spheres,” says Marie-Ève Baril. Imperfect like sculptures made by the hand of a man – of a woman, in fact – placed on a pedestal table. “This idea of having an art object in the bathroom was the start of the collection. »
Water, source of inspiration
This collaboration was born during a C2 Montreal event where the entrepreneur met the fashion designer. “In the evening, at home, I said to myself: ‘What an idea it would be for Marie Saint Pierre to make a tap and draw something for us! Tomorrow, if I see her, I’ll run after her and I’ll ask her.” »
The next day she saw her, chased her, asked her. “In a second, she replied: ‘Well yes!’ »
Reading the designer’s website, she realized that they both shared the same values and the same words: timeless design, quality, attention to detail, function, well-being.
“I really gave him carte blanche,” she continues. We agreed on a bathroom collection. »
The fashion designer presented her with five main directions. One of them was retained, to which the designer then devoted herself.
Fashion design and product design are similar, notes Marie Saint Pierre, who is also attending the launch in Toronto.
“It’s the same process of thinking about what is good design, design that will move us, that will not just bring a new product to market, but rather bring a new vision of an object from daily. »
The similarity is all the stronger as she creates her clothes in three dimensions.
“I draw very little. I prefer to mold and work with my hands. »
So she got her hands dirty – literally.
“I worked with modeling clay, with all sorts of objects. I made myself a small workbench of objects that inspired me around water. I had parts of Baril faucets that Marie-Ève had lent me for the reflection work. »
It is in the water that she drew her inspiration.
“I wanted to honor water, to give it a kind of podium. I sculpted an imperfect ball, in which I planted a pipe. The imperfect ball represented a bit of the planet, the pipe extracting water from this planet. It was almost instantaneous: I saw something in there right away. »
The ball and ball were passed to Baril’s designers and technicians.
“Great cooperation”
“My team made drawings, shapes, then we met Marie, summarizes Marie-Ève Baril. It was easy, it was fast. A great collaboration! »
The design and production process took two years. Upon arrival, the ball remained organic.
“When you touch it, it is not perfectly round, describes the president. It was cast by hand, and we made the mold from that. »
A great technical challenge, to which his team devoted a few months.
Authorized retailers will carry the Marie collection over the next few weeks. Unsurprisingly, it is not available everywhere.
To the food! swallow Sushi Taxi
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Rosanne Giguère, Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of À la bouffe!
To the food! caught Sushi Taxi in its nets. The Trois-Rivières restaurant company has announced the acquisition of the sushi restaurant chain, characterized since its founding in 2000 by home delivery. The amount of the addition is not known. The Sushi Taxi chain had 12 directly owned restaurants and 9 franchise establishments. To the food! brought together 59 restaurants, mainly Subway and Thaï Express brands, but also two Sushi Taxi franchises. With this transaction, “I will own 71 restaurants, and 7 remain franchised,” said Rosanne Giguère, vice-president and chief executive officer of À la bouffe!, by email. Aged 27, she has been at the head of the family business since 2019. While maintaining the “DNA of Sushi Taxi”, the businesswoman plans to review the reception concept and the layout of the chain’s dining rooms. Sushi Taxi’s head office will remain in Quebec for the time being. To the food! will now have more than 750 employees.
Spordle provides its registration platform to Hockey Canada
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Lino Côté, president and co-founder of Spordle
Without checking or fighting, Hockey Canada and Spordle entered into a multi-year partnership for the use of the participant registration platform designed by the Quebec firm. The tool thus supports more than 3,500 local hockey associations, which have more than 750,000 participants registered each year in Hockey Canada’s sanctioned programs. On the recommendation of experts, Hockey Canada had decided in 2019 to entrust an external firm with the mandate to develop and manage its registration platform at the national level. The organization launched a call for tenders to which several major American and Canadian players responded. Spordle was drafted in August 2020. After a year of adjusting to Hockey Canada’s needs, its platform was put to the test in March 2021 for registrations for the 2021-2022 hockey season across the country. Canada. More than 4000 registrars and users have received the necessary training. But Spordle also wants to make its mark on other playing fields. The Boisbriand company “counts on valuable relationships with several sports federations, including those of hockey, baseball, soccer, basketball, and so on. “, indicated by email its co-founder and president, Lino Côté. “Spordle already has collaborations in Europe and the United States. The next three years will allow Spordle to become the dominant Canadian player. »
Sugar cane from Guadeloupe, Quebec
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Erick Vachon, president of Ideal Canne, and his son Jean-Sébastien Vachon, vice-president
The production of sugar cane has started in La Guadeloupe. In Quebec, moreover. Ideal Canne, “the only Canadian manufacturer to offer this type of cane cane”, according to the press release, has just launched the production of cans intended for the packaging of Quebec maple syrup in its factory in La Guadeloupe, in the region of Chaudiere-Appalaches. The company would be the only one in Canada to manufacture three-piece food cans – bottom, barrel and lid. Ideal Canne moved up the launch of its production, initially scheduled for June, to meet spring demand from Quebec maple syrup producers. A first production line, with a capacity of 100 million boxes per year, was put into operation on 1is March and two others should eventually come into operation.
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The 22nde Patrick Morin renovation center, but the first on the South Shore of Montreal, will open soon. It will be located on the land formerly occupied by the Les 4 Glaces complex, without further details.
