When you walk into the two-storey home and garden shop, it’s as if you’ve entered a magical dreamland where the flowers never wilt and the pillows are always fluffed. Inside Teatro Verde, Italian for “green theatre,” you will always and forever hold your own home to the shop’s impeccable taste.
Owners Shawn Gibson and Michael Pellegrino created this dreamland by hand-selecting a range of items from good, better, and best to suit their clients’ individual styles. The artistic duo met through mutual friends in Toronto and combined their talents to conceive their high-end lifestyle emporium. Shawn is the interior design guru while Michael is the expert in all things floral. The two opened Teatro Verde in 1996 at Hazelton Lanes before moving into a historic building along Yorkville Avenue that was once home to Mount Sinai Hospital. They’ve been at the 9,000-square-foot location for over five years and have since opened two more outposts in Bayview Village.
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We all have someone who’s difficult to buy gifts for, either because they already have everything or possess very particular tastes. Shopping at Teatro Verde takes all the anxiety out of this kind of gift giving because everything it stocks is so unique. Where else can you find a leather box with a thought-provoking quote on the lid, a clock with a sun ray frame made of pencils or a pillow with “Muskoka” embroidered on it?
View this Smart ListEuropean design takes centre stage at this two-storey home and garden shop in Yorkville. Its Italian name appropriately translates to “green theatre.” Interior designer Shawn Gibson and floral designer Michael Pellegrino have handpicked a fashion-forward selection of home furnishings, kitchenware, decorative items, gifts and gardening accessories that are displayed in a series of thematic vignettes throughout the 9,000-square-foot shop. Looking to finish off your space with a beautiful bouquet of fresh-cut flowers? Visit the on-site floral studio to pick up classic and modern arrangements.
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