Design duo Jonathan de Swaaf and Joanne Byrne make everything in-house on the ground floor of an old factory in Toronto’s west end.

It was 2013, when design duo Joanne Byrne and Jonathan de Swaaf were working on a wall treatment for a restaurant, that they first experimented with resin. The pair, whose Toronto studio is known as Creators of Objects, constructed clear cherry blossom flowers to give the installation a 3-D effect.

A few years later, in 2016, Byrne and de Swaaf started exploring what else was possible with the material. “We were inspired by the sculpture artist Rachel Whiteread,” Byrne says. “She’s an incredible resin artist who does negative space castings.” They started with small objects, like Ghostwriter, solid resin books that poke fun at coffee table tomes that peopl

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