Designer and Artist Tom Deacon Goes Back to the Drawing Board to Re-Renovate His Home and Studio
You’ve probably sat in one of his renowned office chairs, but his revamped Toronto residence is more about art than ergonomics.
You’ve probably sat in one of his renowned office chairs, but his revamped Toronto residence is more about art than ergonomics.
Tom Deacon’s life, like his work, is a mix of old and new, indoors and out. An architect by training, he became renowned as a furniture designer, leading Canadian manufacturer Keilhauer to its first mass-produced chair, the Tom, an innovation in high-tech plastic, and then back into upholstered fame with his Danforth chair, for a time the official seat in the White House Situation Room.
Furniture designer and artist Tom Deacon teamed up with friend and architect Andrew Jones to renovate his Toronto townhouse.
In the living room, CH22 Wishbone chairs by Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn and a vintage steamer lounge flank a custom marble coffee table. The Horse Fair, by Dutch painter Willem Carel Nakken, rests on the fireplace, and antique grain shovels lean nearby.
With a thriving practice based in Toronto, Tom bought a tall Victorian there in 1987, which he and his then partner renovated to give it a wide-open interior. In 2000 he left it all behind to dig in the dirt on land he owns in the countryside, creating intricate gardens and landscapes.
A window frames a Gupta Buddha torso from northern India. The Tolomeo reading lamp is by Michele De Lucchi for Artemide.
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