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Mjolk
Category: Shopping Home & Garden Furniture Stores Furniture Stores [Edit]
2959 Dundas St WToronto, ON M6P 1Z2
Neighbourhood: The Junction
(416) 551-9853
- Price Range:
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$$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
5 reviews for Mjolk
5 reviews in English
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Review from Mark H.
6/7/2011
I loved visiting this cool, trendy, fun, simple store. Yes, it's maybe over the top classy, clean, and has lots of things you don't need, at a price higher than you'd probably like to pay, but I liked how it celebrated good and interesting design with whimsy. I ended up buying only two notecards, even though I had my eye on other things - kitchenware, dishtowels, and a stool for my apartment. I also chatted with the shopkeepers who, while knew their stuff and seemed passionate about it, were friendly but unobtrusive. If I lived in Toronto, I'm sure I would have walked away with something hip for my apartment!
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Review from Vivek S.
2/18/2012
In some of my nighttime reveries, I am wearing dark slacks and a turtlenecked sweater of equivalent shade. I am reading Being and Nothingness through round spectacles. I turn my head. I am in my apartment, but it's not my apartment. It's a wonderfully spartan and minimalist space furnished with mid-century modern Scandinavian furniture. I pick up a glass of charcoal-filtered glacier water and with one ice cold sip, I wake up.
While I don't really want to manifest this Teutonic wet dream in reality, if I had to I would come to Mjölk. It's full of sleek, über-designed, Nordic and Japanese inspired furniture and accessories. It's as maddeningly overpriced as it is gorgeous. A pair of "everyday" copper scissors will run you $80. A maple pencil case is $250. A fucking shoehorn runs $350. This isn't just a furniture store; it's a one-percenter bait shop.
In waking life, I will not and cannot shop here. But in the throes of my umlautted dreams, I can be found lucidly sipping from a $75 coffee mug. Skål!
Obligatory Title Pun: The MJOLK's on you.
Menu Readability: Felt coasters: 6 for $28.
Need to mention: They carry a line called Fjord Fiesta. LOL! ^_^
What this place teaches me about myself: I am way too brown to spend $145 on a toothpick case. But I can still covet it.Listed in: Home Stuffs
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Review from Kent P.
2/21/2011
This store is really fucking stupid.
I walked in during one of my Junction jaunts the other day - and found the clean, modern stuff from the window quite alluring.
They've got a lot of really dumb items in here. Like a solid wood figure-8 to wrap your ipod headphone cords around so they don't tangle for like, I don't know $30.
The furniture in here looks like a really classy Ikea. About 4x as classy. Maybe 5x. But it's like....300x more expensive. Value proposition fail.
I asked the lady jokingly, "Have you found business has really picked up since the mainstream popularity of the Girl with The Dragon Tattoo? This is what brought me here". She was obviously repulsed with this remark. We just looked at each other in silence awkwardly for about 10 seconds and she said modern furniture is generally popular.
Ohhh wow, check out my ergonomic, aesthetic, and utilitarian influenced designer wall hooks for coats? It was only $1250!
I think this is a great place to shop for assholes. -
Review from Diane R.
Toronto, ON
3/18/2010
Another phenomenal design and furniture shop in the junction. Run by a scando-wanna-be couple, the shop is a well picked collection of Scandinavian and Japanese pieces. The prices are fair and the pieces will last you 8 times longer than anything you pick up at Ikea. The design sensibility is one of the best in the city. And try to find a lovelier couple to chat with - I dare you!
And if you're too cheap to buy any of their wares, check out their personal blog (http://kitkadesigntoro...) and feel the inspiration there. -
Review from Leslie-Anne W.
Toronto, ON
11/19/2010 1 Check-in Here
This store renders me speechless. It's the designer, over the top, beautiful version of ikea. The art, the housewares, and the furniture make me drool. It's the kind of store where you catch yourself saying, oh wouldn't this look good in our living room, and then you remember you can't afford it and probably need to find the cheap knockoff at IKEA. The good thing about Mjolk is that there are affordable housewares and smaller pieces that would be great as gift for discerning others (or yourself). The staff is super friendly. The store is constantly being featured in design magazines and is worth a browse.
Listed in: An Afternoon in the Junction
