Category Archives: Events

Calendar Girls

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: April 19, 2011
If you’ve seen the movie, I bet you can’t wait to see the play. If you haven’t seen the move, I bet you can’t wait to see the play. Nude calendars mostly exist in first year dorm rooms and garages…unless… the nude calendar supports a good cause. In that case, you will find them in […]
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Couple Gets Engaged at Toronto Antiques on King

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: March 22, 2011
Warning: the following is not for those who cry during romantic comedies. Listen up all you princes and princesses-in-training, here is a story about how to get it done. “It” being the proposal and “done” being the anticipated acceptance. After Aizick treated her to a mani-pedi, Jen couldn’t find Aizick anywhere in their home.  Instead, […]
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“Railway Children” Coming To Toronto

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: February 11, 2011
Who hasn’t played a “chu-chu” train game? We have all enjoyed a wooden train set, pretended the fork was a train in order to feed a stubborn mouth, or acted like a train engine carrying “cargo” around the living room floor. Trains spark the imagination of children, but they also evoke romanticism in adults. Train […]
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Toronto Antiques on King Loves “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert”, Especially its Vintage Jewellery

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: October 30, 2010
The staff at Toronto Antiques on King are squinting today and it’s not because we’ve been looking directly at the sun. It’s because we’ve been selling a lot of vintage costume jewellery and boy, does it sparkle something fabulous. Nothing excites our enthusiasm for vintage costume jewellery more than Mirvish Productions’ Priscilla: Queen of the […]
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Upcoming Textile Show!

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: October 21, 2010
Our good friend Roushell Goldstein visited Toronto Antiques on King on Tuesday. In addition to being an avid antique collector, Roushell is also a textile artist. We were excited to hear about her upcoming show—so excited that we thought you would be too! Roushell is part of a group show, pieceWORK, at the Gladstone Hotel […]
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Check out this Furniture Bank Charity Fundraiser: The Chair Affair!

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: October 12, 2010
We have very exciting news. Today Elaine Frost, a friend of the store, visited to tell us about an event she is organizing through the charity Furniture Bank. Furniture Bank accepts donations of gently used household furnishings from Torontonians and gives (at no charge) them to people in need—mostly women and children from shelters, new […]
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Toronto Antiques on King Goes 3D!

By Toronto Antiques on King | Published: August 25, 2010
In the much anticipated CBC presentation of the first Canadian 3D television broadcast, a documentary called “Queen Elizabeth in 3D”, airing on September 20th at 7pm, our very own Alex Stairs will make a brief guest appearance to explain a bit about stereoscopes, the original 3D image viewers. CBC crew members arrived at our store […]
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