New Chicago Showroom
A transformation — or rather, an explosion — has taken place among the former factories, wholesale markets and warehouses on the edges of downtown Chicago. This is Chicago’s meatpacking district, known as the West Loop and like its counterpart in NYC, the gritty neighborhood is undergoing a major transformation. On Lake Street, boutiques, restaurants and galleries are sprouting under the elevated train tracks, creating a thriving art and retail market among the meat and produce purveyors. Every few minutes, a train thunders past, but the fashionable denizens pay it no mind. One of the fastest growing neighborhoods, the West Loop ...
Montauk Sofa Handmade in Montreal
It was 1995 when a young entrepreneur, Tim Zyto, created the first Montauk Sofa. Tim had grown up steeped in the old world tradition of sofa making. His father was the owner of Biltmore Chesterfield, a successful, well respected furniture maker, who sold to retailers across Canada. The original Montauk Sofa store opened in Montreal on a somewhat seedy patch of St. Laurent Boulevard, an iconic cultural corridor fondly referred to as the Main. Zyto brought in Danny Chartier, as head designer and executive manager and together they made up the yin and yang of what is today recognized as ...
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TO VISIT MONTAUK, YOU MUST TRAVEL THE AMERICAN EAST COAST OR VISIT THE SHOWROOM OF THE MANUFACTURER OF THE SAME NAME IN NEW YORK, TORONTO, CHICAGO, CALGARY, VANCOUVER, OR MONTRÉAL – THE BIRTHPLACE OF THIS DYNAMIC UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE MANUFACTURER. Tim Zyto’s father owned Biltmore Chesterfield who went bankrupt in 1989 during a serious economic crisis in Québec. A young Tim, who studied sociology at Concordia, was studying business administration at McGill when his father died. He quit school and decided to get into business. He opened the Biltmore company on Boulevard St-Laurent with a partner, but due to different ...
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