THE LIBRARY

Where intimacy, pleasure and creativity are the goals.

The Library grows from the world of Aching Beauty — four sections, named after the book and its chapters, that invite you into conversations, guides, stories, recipes, and music to live with through your days and nights. Some of these pieces were written under an earlier name, giuseppedecaria.com. They remain as they were — documents of the practice finding its form.

Aching Beauty 

Far from thinking about beauty too much, we haven’t begun to think about it as deeply as we should.

This section gathers conversations with the people who made the book and the people who carry its world forward — guides, articles, and voices from Toronto and past its borders, seeing the unseen beauty in the world through their eyes.

Inside: Conversations with Francesco Gallé, who illustrated the book. Charlyne Thorn, who designed it and photographed Divine Haliburton. Katharine Beaton, who edited both books. Remy Perrin, who recorded the audiobook. Shelley Town, whose shop carried the postcards — and whose father Harold Town was a founding member of Painters Eleven. Thomas Branconier, whose street photography lives throughout this site. And more to come.

These are not profiles. They are primary sources — documents of the practice finding its form, made by the people who helped it get there.