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In the hustle and skelter of Toronto's (unofficial) Design Week—comprised of a massive IDS 09 and its younger alt-bro of a show, Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone, plus MADE's Radiant Dark and a smattering of smaller exhibits and excuses to party—playing favourites is work. How to choose from the million-and-one objects and projections of desire proffered by our city's proliferation of designing minds? It's trickier still when you're dazzled and confused by Swarovski installations or Castor in-jokes, to get to the point of purchase. It's one thing to admire, another to sanely advise someone else to buy.

Could the Interior Design Show be at a better time? The annual celebration of the Great Indoors—everything from floor tiles to furniture-art to future-perfect concept spaces—happens in the heart of our hibernation, the nadir of winter's discontentment. This year, it's February 5 through 8, at Exhibition Place. (Don't even check your agenda. You have nothing to do.)

At the Interior Design Show this past weekend, British innovator-icon Tom Dixon lamented the impossibility of creative rebellion in today's art and design world. In the eighties, he said, postmodern design values were near-universal, and thus easy to subvert. In the oughties, however, the aesthetic is increasingly fractured, and there is no one standard to either strive for or strain against. If anything goes and nothing is new, how are today's students to design anything truly radical?

Heads up on the hands-down coolest things at the Interior Design Show: most of them spring from our own backyard.

A project by architect Johnson Chou and distributor Sound Solutions, part of IDS 08 Collaborations exhibit.