
'It’s crazy when people hear it’s only an 11-foot wall-to-wall,’ says designer Cynthia Ferguson. ‘People just don’t believe it.’
When Cynthia got the call to design a compact Toronto condo in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood for a newlywed couple – one a principal dancer with the Canadian National Ballet and the other a choreographer – every decision needed to gracefully balance beauty with performance. Space planning, enveloping color, storage, and ergonomics were all essential to the house design, from cooking dinner to practicing grand pliés.