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Join us on site at Mount Pleasant Furniture (MPF) for tours of Vancouver’s famous prop house! Three simultaneous group tours will be conducted onsite at Mount Pleasant Furniture.  Each tour will accommodate eight participants and include introductions and exploration of the space. RSVPs are required, tickets are $20 per person.

MPF operates exclusively by appointment. Secreted behind a closed door, this hidden gem is known primarily to film and stage art directors. MPF has been a prop house wonderland for the film, television, stage and art communities for decades. It is a family owned and operated business in the heart of the Mount Pleasant warehouse district, a neighbourhood that in just a few short years has transformed into the city’s technology hub. MPF is an astounding and diverse collection of over one million antique and vintage objects. It is stored in two multi-level buildings, a labyrinth of 35,000 square feet, crammed from floor ceiling with furnishings, objects of art, paintings, textiles, sculpture, figurines. 

These tours are in conjunction with Griffin Art Projects’ exhibition, The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects, curated by Lisa Baldissera and Paul Wong.  The Prop House offers an opportunity to celebrate and explore this extraordinary collection with the public for the first time. The objects were sourced everywhere, from second hand stores to garage to estate sales deepening in complexity and materiality.

This exhibition features a film project by Paul Wong, presented at the Mount Pleasant Community Screen and window installation and window project at Mount Pleasant Furniture.

The Prop House: A Collection of Over One Million Objects is presented in collaboration with grunt gallery, Mount Pleasant Community Screen, Mount Pleasant Furniture and On Main Gallery.