{"id":6405,"date":"2025-07-06T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/territo.ca\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:09:27","slug":"a-family-affair-maison-territo-is-more-than-a-showroom-for-designer-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/territo.ca\/fr\/a-family-affair-maison-territo-is-more-than-a-showroom-for-designer-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family Affair: Maison Territo Is More than a Showroom for Designer Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a new chapter in a legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Montreal\u2019s Royalmount shopping centre, the who\u2019s-who of Montreal fashion and design gathered last month to celebrate one of the complex\u2019s newest stores: Maison Territo<\/a>. More than a furniture showroom, it\u2019s an immersive haven of maximalist design, with over 11,000 square feet of details to pique every sense, from the bergamot-tinged custom scent wafting through the air to the dulcet tones of the in-shop piano, plus a dizzying mix of patterns and textures throughout, from marble to mahogany to Murano glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overseen by the award-winning Blanchette architects, the sprawling space is separated into four main sections, each showcasing a featured design house\u2014Fendi Casa, Versace Home, Dolce & Gabbana Casa, and Bentley Home\u2014while also reflecting its unique aesthetics and ethos. Bentley\u2019s mahogany and leather speak to the brand\u2019s luxury car origins, while Dolce & Gabbana goes wild with animal print couches and carpets. Smaller home goods such as candles and monogrammed blankets accent each space, and a 17-foot bar proves a striking gathering place beneath a sculptural light fixture from Quebec\u2019s Larose Guyon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe wanted it to feel like a home, not a store,\u201d says the CEO and co-founder, David Territo. He launched the business along with his wife, Liv Siv-Ing, who previously worked in fashion sales and marketing. The idea was born from tragedy and chance, a way to pay tribute to his family legacy, including two brothers who passed away from cancer, and from a meeting during the couple\u2019s yearly pilgrimage to the Milan Furniture Fair. It was there that a valued contact made an impression telling the stories of each of Territo\u2019s now-featured brands, all available together for the first time in Canada. \u201cA coup de foudre<\/em>,\u201d Siv-Ing calls it. Fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t just that these houses were high-end or tied to reputable designers, names with weight that can\u2019t be bought, but that they all had what mattered most to the couple: a rich family history. Whether Adele and Edoardo Fendi opening a boutique in 1925, their five daughters hiring Karl Lagerfeld in 1965, or Domenico Dolce meeting Stefano Gabbana, all are a lesson in resilience, and a model for Territo and Siv-Ing in working together. \u201cYou can\u2019t just create a chair\u2014it\u2019s got to have the engineering and the creativity,\u201d Siv-Ing says, likening her husband\u2019s approach to the essential structure and hers to the upholstery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maison Territo\u2019s story begins back in 1972, when David Territo\u2019s parents Calogero and Francesca Territo founded Casavogue. At the time, there was a schism forming in the world of furniture, and what was previously the stuff of future family heirlooms and antique stores\u2014hardwood dressers and dining tables gifted at a wedding and kept forever\u2014was suddenly being rivalled by composite materials and new, cheaper competitors. (For context: the first IKEA opened in Canada in 1976, in Richmond, B.C.) Yet while others zigged, the Territo family zagged, with cabinetmaker and patriarch Calogero Territo shifting his business to import Italian furniture, and David and his brothers learning the ropes from childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople come to us and say, \u2018I still have the bedroom set you sold me there 40 years ago,\u2019\u201d Territo says of the 35,000-square-foot Casavogue store in Montreal\u2019s Saint-L\u00e9onard (a traditional home to Montreal\u2019s Italian community).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the store continues to sell both Italian and Canadian furniture, brands like Calligaris, Colibri, Durham, and Jaymar, it\u2019s clear Maison Territo takes luxury up a notch. Still, the couple is adamant that whatever statement the Maison Territo pieces make, they are meant to be lived with, not admired from afar\u2014even the leopard-print couch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA home is your personal space, what you do day-to-day, not just visuals,\u201d Siv-Ing says. \u201cThe pieces you buy today can be the ones you pass down in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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