January 28, 2012 at 12:40 pm

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Scene: The Gladstone Wants You to Come Up to Their Rooms

By Hamutal Dotan • Photos by Corbin Smith

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125810 Jewel Net of Indra Gareth Bate Inspired by the Buddhist Indra's Net, which explains the world's interconnectedness by describing it as a net of jewels, each with many factes reflecting infinitely in all directions. Bates has painted hundreds of small portraits on mirrored circles, which reflect you watching them as they watch you. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room3_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room3_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room3_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room3_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room3_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room3_corbin_smith 0 0

125811 UA Collective Imagine a room-size printing press, but in place of each letter is a cube, and on each face of the cubes is anything from a letter to a passage of text to a symbol. Now imagine spinning all the cubes and then printing the result—Guttenburg rolling the dice. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room4_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room4_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room4_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room4_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room4_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room4_corbin_smith 0 0

125813 DarkLab Deane Hughes and Christine Beaumont From the creators of Nuit Blanche's much-loved <a href="http://torontoist.com/2011/10/nuit-blanche-live/2011nb20miles/">Heart Machine</a>, a pulsating, rotating sculpture in the heart of an otherwise pitch-black room. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room6_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room6_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room6_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room6_Corbin_Smith.jpg 685 1024 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room6_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room6_corbin_smith 0 0

125818 Turn Me On Aurelia Adams and Matthew Davis Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room11_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room11_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room11_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room11_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room11_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room11_corbin_smith 0 0

125814 Uphoarding Fugitive Glue Even mundane objects have a story—a design, a production process, an afterlife. Uphoarding explores the lifecycle of the very ordinary propane tank—and the environmental implications of the equally ordinary backyard barbeque in the process. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room7_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room7_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room7_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room7_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room7_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room7_corbin_smith 0 0

125815 Uphoarding Fugitive Glue Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room8_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room8_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room8_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room8_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room8_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room8_corbin_smith 0 0

125819 the refraction machine Matt Peddie and Wes Wilson Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room12_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room12_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room12_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room12_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room12_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room12_corbin_smith 0 0

125816 Mirrored Room with Shiny Spinning Things Bruno Billio and Sam Mogelonsky Exactly what it sounds like. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room9_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room9_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room9_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room9_Corbin_Smith.jpg 685 1024 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room9_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room9_corbin_smith 0 0

125817 10,000 Untitleds WE-3 Hoarders hang on to everything they can, but what do all those stowed-away objects mean? Untitleds considers the notion of collection as sheer accumulation as thousands of numbers paper slips—objects without significance or substance—flutter in the breeze. Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room10_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room10_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room10_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room10_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room10_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room10_corbin_smith 0 0

125820 Chair Project University of Waterloo School of Architecture Corbin Smith/Torontoist 20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room13_Corbin_Smith https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room13_Corbin_Smith-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room13_Corbin_Smith.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120126-Come-Up-To-My-Room13_Corbin_Smith.jpg 1024 685 {"copyright":"Corbin Smith"} https://torontoist.com/2012/01/scene-the-gladstone-wants-you-to-come-up-to-their-rooms/slide/20120126-come-up-to-my-room13_corbin_smith/ 20120126-come-up-to-my-room13_corbin_smith 0 0

WHERE: Gladstone Hotel

WHEN: Thursday evening

WHAT: While the Metro Toronto Convention Centre has been taken over by the behemoth that is the Interior Design Show, the Gladstone Hotel offers a more manageable, and offbeat, exhibition this weekend. Come Up To My Room is marking its ninth year, featuring a few pieces of furniture (log-chairs, graphic wardrobes) and interior design (spiky geometric ceiling fixtures), and nearly a dozen room-size installations.

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Scene: The Gladstone Wants You to Come Up to Their Rooms

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