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Smash
Categories: Shopping Home & Garden Furniture Stores Shopping Antiques Furniture Stores, Antiques [Edit]
2880 Dundas St WToronto, ON M6P 1Y8
Neighbourhood: The Junction
(416) 762-3113
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 10 am - 6 pm
Sun 12 pm - 5 pm
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
9 reviews for Smash
9 reviews in English
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Review from Vivek S.
2/20/2012 1 Check-in Here
Smash specializes in reclaimed antiques and furniture. It's located in the Junction, and I was impressed by its size. It's like a hangar in here! It's long and wide and airy, and there are eye-catching pieces everywhere you look. They stock a variety of tables and desks, steel cabinets, luggage, unique signage, lighting, and all manner of stools and chairs. Contrary to my expectations the prices here were surprisingly down to earth. I found a solid wood Girl Scouts' activity table that cost less than an Alve desk at Ikea. And it's at least five times as cool.
I need to talk about their posters. They have one- or two-color acrylic screen prints that looked to be 20"x30". I saw a print of butcher tools, a side of beef, a map of Canada circa 1735, and so forth. Really swell designs, and they were only $40 each.
If I lived in a big empty loft (and had a big full bank account) I'd love the chance to pick this place clean. Until then, it will have to suffice to breathe in the sheer coolness of this shop.
Obligatory Title Pun: Hulk antique SMASH!
Menu Readability: They have a screen print of the entire Helvetica typeface. Need I say more?
Need to mention: Need a school gym bench? $425.
What this place teaches me about myself: I'm going to need a bigger apartment.Listed in: Home Stuffs
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Review from jenna m.
10/17/2011
Smash Furniture Store
I freakin love this place. I could seriously have a love affair with it, The enormous showroom displays the most unique salvaged and reclaimed items around. As an industrial furniture and salvage nut/admirer, I find Smash to have incredible inventory with very reasonable prices.
My friends and I have purchased several interesting items including but not limited to: a vintage choir bulletin board from an old church on St. Clair in Toronto-I have subsequently re-upholstered it with linen and I put up my old concert ticket stubs on the bulletin ( I feel like Sister Mary-Clarence would dig it), a slate chalk board from a turn of the century school house, a factory cart coffee table that is beautifully worn, an old metal film canister (maybe once housing a great film), and a vintage medical journal from Harvard.
I go into Smash and fantasize about what my dream home would eventually one day look like. Every piece has a story and it shows brilliantly. Smash has updated their website and they post their current inventory online, hooray!. The owner is very nice and accommodating of your needs. The staff appeared to be friendly, helpful and engaging. I highly recommend this gallery.
But make um understand Its Westside foe Life
Thanks so much for your time,
Cheers
Jenna -
Review from Avitania B.
Toronto, ON
10/16/2011 1 Check-in Here
In a perfect world, I would have a bajillion dollars and I'd be able to furnish my giant loft apartment with the type of cool, unique pieces you find at Smash. Everything from vintage hand mirrors, to old springs, to original screenprints, to these cool wooden carts with metal wheels that are the perfect size to refinish and convert into coffee tables... it's all there, and it's all awesome. Alas, my apartment is the size of a shoebox and I don't have much room for new furniture, but in the meantime I'll always take the opportunity to nose around Smash and fill my brain with fodder for when I'm daydreaming about my ideal apartment.
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Review from Dr. K.
Toronto, ON
9/5/2011
Are you a young hipster? Maybe your just a hip youngster. Either way, you'll dig what SMASH is serving up!
SMASH is one of those places that makes you wish you had a huge studio apartment like in the movies, and enough money to fill it with useless eclectic antiques. But you don't. So like me, you go in there, look around, and then continue on to Pho Houng for some killer Fresh Rolls.
That being said, I still think it's an awesome place. It's filled with cool stuff and acts more as a gallery than anything else.
This place definitely suits the area and I'd be sad to see it go. I'd rather a place like SMASH in the Junction than another nail salon or cheque cashing joint! -
Review from Kent P.
2/21/2011
This is a interesting shop to visit when you're in the Junction. They've always got pieces that seem to move quickly- usually these items like benches, shelves, old tools, lamps are pricey.
What's more affordable (and just as cool) are the silkscreen prints they do in house. You've probably seen some of them up in certain meaty restaurants (ie Drake BBQ) - they've got butchers tools, butcher diagrams of pork and beef cuts of meet, and all in a variety of colors.
I had one in the Ox-blood color and wanted to get a matching one from the same series- they didn't have it on hand, so they went downstairs and made me one in about 20 minutes. COOL. Now my apartment is creepier than it already was. -
Review from Alan W.
Toronto, ON
12/28/2010
Smash is a quirky vintage/salvage store located a little ways off in the Junction District.
They sell lots of cool furniture reclaimed from any place you could think of. You will often see old lockers, antique desks and cabinets, ultra cool vintage Canadian memorabilia (which is very popular these days), lighting fixtures, metal signs, industrial fixtures, etc. which oozes in character and charm from its rusted, worn and patinaed finish.
This collection of old stuff is mixed in with artwork from a featured urban artist (a very informal gallery that is scattered through the store).
This is a place to stop by once in a while as their inventory changes constantly, and their website is still under construction. It's a nice place to wander on a lazy weekend.
Their stuff would look right at home in a loft or as a juxtaposed piece in a modern condo.Listed in: Home furnishings (Best &…
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Review from Nicole H.
Toronto, ON
Walking into Smash is like walking into the really big basement of some kind of eccentric hipster. An amazing mix of reclaimed furniture, strange artefacts, charming old Canadiana & things like a giant pile of vintage tin army helmets - all thrown in together in this strange warehouse-like space.
A couple of my favourite things I saw while browsing included a really old-school billiard-like game with stone game balls, the terrific screenprints they make in-house (especially the old map of Canada!), a giant table full of big glass bottles, and a big old cabinet with a flaking paint job. Oh, and that lovely musty smell of Old Stuff, too.
You could look around in all the nooks and crannies and find something awesome pretty much every five minutes. Prices are prohibitive for someone like me, but i'm still giving it 4 stars for the awesome browsing opportunities. When I get myself a sugar daddy you better believe i'll be back, Smash! -
Review from Diane R.
Toronto, ON
3/18/2010
PHENOMENAL shop. Well curated and designed. A little murky, but a good eye will know they've found a gem as soon as they walk in the door. Staff are chatty (which I love) and will tell you the minutiae on every piece. I honestly didn't want to share this spot, but I don't want it to disappear so will instead selfishly spread the word.
But honestly, if you buy the piece I want, I'll kill you. -
Review from Leslie-Anne W.
Toronto, ON
11/19/2010
Smash is the kind of store you would expect movie set designers to shop at. They have an eclectic range of salvaged pieces you could presumably use in your home, if your home was awesome, and lofty and from a movie. There are a couple of stores in the Junction in this style of home decor that are really amazing, places where you could buy a conversation piece of art or furniture that would really set your home apart. Worth a look-see, for sure.
Listed in: An Afternoon in the Junction
