{"id":14591,"date":"2017-11-08T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T22:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sothebysrealty.ca\/insightblog\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2018-02-23T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T23:21:24","slug":"designer-architect-dee-dee-eustace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sothebysrealty.ca\/insightblog\/en\/2017\/11\/08\/designer-architect-dee-dee-eustace\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Designer & Architect Dee Dee Eustace"},"content":{"rendered":"

At any given time, Dee Dee Eustace would have nearly a dozen projects on the go. For this Toronto-born world-renowned architect-slash-interior designer, that could include anything from Friday Harbour \u2014 an upscale resort on Lake Simcoe \u2014 to a 19th-century brownstone on New York\u2019s Upper East Side. Eustace\u2019s design savvy has landed her multiple appearances on Oprah<\/em>, as well as a starring role on HGTV\u2019s reality show Real Designing Women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Eustace recently completed the redesign of the lower level of swank Toronto steakhouse Harbour Sixty. \u201cI don\u2019t do cookie-cutter architecture,\u201d says Eustace, whose 25-year- old Toronto-based firm, Taylor Hannah Architect, is on speed-dial for most of the city\u2019s well-heeled style set. \u201cI look to the past while building in future components with new materiality. Picasso couldn\u2019t have painted Cubism had he not been able to paint still life. I\u2019m not afraid to try something new and put it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to her personal life, Eustace, is just as willing to take risks. In 2013, newly divorced and with her son, Jake, heading off to university, she left Toronto on a whim. \u201cI said to my [then 14-year-old] daughter, Rachael, \u2018If, for one year and one year only, you could live anywhere, where would you go?\u2019 She said, \u2018New York.\u2019 I flew down the next week,\u201d recalls Eustace. She snagged a charming Upper East Side brownstone for sublet from the prominent art dealer Dominique L\u00e8vy. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t just up their lives at 50 and start again,\u201d notes Eustace. \u201c[But] it made me… get passionate again about what I do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In what she dubs as \u201ca year of magical living,\u201d Eustace kept her Toronto office while tackling projects from her new home base in NYC. Each morning, she\u2019d walk Rachael to the prestigious Hewitt School, revelling in her anonymity. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than not feeling pressure to wear a certain piece of designer jewellery or drive a certain car,\u201d says Eustace. \u201cYou are who you are and you realize that when you travel.\u201d (Next on her list: L.A.)<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, it didn\u2019t take long for Eustace to form a new inner circle in New York and immerse herself in design, art and charity. (She is a past president of Out of the Cold Foundation which serves the homeless and disadvantaged in Ontario in the winter months.) During her time in the city, her brownstone was featured on the front page of the New York Post, <\/em>as well as in New York Social Diary, <\/em>and Eustace herself served as co-chair of the annual preview party for the International Fine Art & Antiques Show \u2014 a fundraiser for cancer research.<\/p>\n

Outgoing and bubbly with boundless energy, Eustace is blond and green-eyed and blessed with a killer fashion sense. \u201cNo one takes you seriously when you look a certain way, which makes you have to prove yourself even more,\u201d she notes. \u201cI\u2019ll wear high heels to a site. I\u2019m really feminine, and yet I\u2019m tough.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In high school, Eustace was that girl who was equal parts cheerleader and math whiz (she had a 95 average). Graduating with honours from the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, she made a name for herself in a highly competitive field where few women are at the helm. \u201cI\u2019m ridiculously positive and I\u2019m good what I do. It comes from hard work and education,\u201d says Eustace.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s family that Eustace values most. When her parents visited recently at her cottage in Stoney Lake, Ont., she took her mom golfing and got her dad to drive a boat again, at age 82 \u2014 \u201cmagic moments,\u201d she says wistfully. She\u2019s close with her siblings too, including brother Michael and sisters Liz and Mary Jo (who hosted the popular TV series What\u2019s for Dinner?<\/em>). And her ultimate dream is to one day run a full-service property\/architecture\/design business with her children, now aged 22 and 17.<\/p>\n

For now, however, Eustace is happy working at her usual frenetic pace and taking on new projects, such as the recent launch of a luxury linen collection called the Princess and the Pea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Though she has been back in Toronto since 2015, Eustace will not soon forget how New York has changed her: \u201cI\u2019m 54 years old and I have never looked younger. That stress has left me. And I\u2019ve got a different approach to life: You create your own day, you are in control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly Eustace thrives on change. This fall, she has $13 million worth of real estate on the market with Sotheby\u2019s International Realty Canada: her Yorkville townhouse, Stoney Lake cottage and Friday Harbour unit. Asked why she\u2019s selling, Eustace says she\u2019s always moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I do: I love architecture and development \u2014 that\u2019s my passion in life, it\u2019s my addiction. Once a project is done, I like to do another one… or three, or four,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cI like to be spontaneous. Life should be magical and an adventure.\u201d Despite an up-in- the-air-future, one thing\u2019s for certain: Eustace will create beauty wherever she lands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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By Shawna Cohen – *This article originally appeared in INSIGHT: The Art of Living | Winter 2017<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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