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Flower Pot Shop in Toronto Ontario
24 Mar 2021
Flower Pot Shop
Interior Design: Swisterski Design Inc.
Location: Dundas St. W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

You may have experienced it for yourself, or maybe as a spectator, too uncertain to venture deeper. That is, the nature of the legal retail cannabis experience. Swisterski Design, a Toronto based interior design firm, wondered if there was a way to change that perception.
After being selected to design a new cannabis retail shop called Flower Pot Shopon Dundas St. W, the owner, Joanne Swisterski, did her research on the most prominent cannabis retail shops in the downtown core. Despite some impressive designs, the foreboding feeling, created largely by completely obscured front windows, was always present. The mission for the new project’s design became clear; it needed to be warm, inviting and exude a feeling of wholesomeness as part of the neighborhood. Cannabis is now legal. The purchasing environment has a part to play in making the potential buyer feel good about what they’re doing. The design style was born out of the owner?s preferences for heavily paneled coffeeshops, and historically Canadian interiors, such as those found in Niagara on the Lake. Swisterski Design used the vernacular of early 19th century apothecaries as the guiding aesthetic. The familiarity with the old provides comfort when buying a...