The tableware and home accessories you’ll find at Hopson Grace are impeccably tasteful, worldly and elegantly understated—just like the two women behind the Toronto lifestyle concept store.
Andrea Hopson and Martha Grace McKimm opened their boutique four years ago after they made the inspired (brave) decision to leave their corporate lives behind. (Hopson was the VP Canada for Tiffany & Co. and McKimm was a senior marketing communications executive with a background in luxury goods.)
Their dream was to offer an edited selection of tableware and decorative pieces from brands like Richard Ginori, Jim Lorriman to Ichendorf Milano. “Life’s best moments are often around a table with wine, food and good conversation,” says McKimm. “We want our pieces to enrich that experience.”
Hopson Grace Shoppable Apartment
With the opening of their new shoppable apartment, which is located just above their 1120 Yonge Street location, the pair will now be bring that same thoughtful aesthetic to other areas of your home. As with the main floor, there is a range of prices from a $30 hand-blown glass olive oil cruet from Italy to an Alonpi cashmere throw from Peru for $1,850.
“We didn’t want this to be a traditional retail environment,” explain Hopson. “We’ve wanted show our products more in situ. It was about bringing our theatrical vision to life. We want someone to look at the bedroom and think that’s the one I’ve always imagined I could have.”
Walking through the 1200-square feet of space is like being immersed in a shoppable Instagramable-worthy apartment. For foodies, the custom kitchen by Scavolini will induce instant envy. On the counters and inside the cupboards there is an edited collection of small electrical appliances, like a stainless steel soda machine from Aark to intricately carved Japanese knives by Miyabi to Skeppshult cast iron Dutch Ovens. The Black Forest Collection from Dibbern, with its sketched bare winter tree on white fine bone china, is poetic—a sentiment that isn’t often associated with dinnerware.
The rest of apartment is furnished with pieces from J Gibson Interiors, the McGill Design Group’s Plum Furniture Collection. and carpets from Kate Thornley-Hall. For dog lovers there are dog bowls from Brooklyn-based Mr. Dog and tweed beds from British Tweedmill. In the dream bedroom, you’ll find Sferra linens, monogrammed towels by Matouk and a brass and bronze vanity accessories from Décor Walther from Germany.
“Whatever we fall in love with, that’s where everything in the store comes from,” says Grace.
When you visit their boutique, you’re bound to fall in love too.
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