1925 Canadian department store buyers and decorative arts
dealers purchase modern furnishing at the Exposition Internationale des Arts
Decoratifs and Industriels Moderns in Paris 1929The House of Today exhibition tours Eaton's stores 1930
Eaton's opens their College Street store in Toronto devoted to home furnishings 1933
Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario is established 1936
American industrial designer Russle Wright designs a line of maple furniture for Snyder's
in Waterloo, Ontario 1937
modern Canadian furniture is shown in the Canadian Pavillion at the Exposition
Internationale des Arts Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris 1940
architect Eliel Saarinen designs a line of furniture for the Imperial Rattan Company in
Stratford, Ontario 1946
prototypes for the world's first moulded plastic furniture are made at the National
Research Council in Ottawa 1947
industrial design courses start at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto 1949
National Industrial Design Committee is established 1953
first government-sponsored design centre opens in Ottawa 1958Contemporary Furnishings for the Home exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario 1962
Better Living Centre opens at the Canadian Nation Exhibition 1967
model apartments in Habitat at Expo 67 in Montreal
Bibliography
Virginia Wright, Seduced and Abandoned: Modern Furniture Designers in
Canada, the First Fifty Years, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront,
Toronto, 1985 Allan
Collier, West Coast Modern, exhibition catalogue, The Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, 1988 Robert McKaskell, Sandra Paikowsky, Allan Collier and Virgina Wright, Achieving the Modern:
Canadian Abtract Painting and Design in the 1950s, exhibition catalogue, The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1992 Virginia
Wright, Modern Furniture in Canada 1920 to 1970, University of Toronto Press,
Toronto, 1997
1925 Canadian department store buyers and decorative arts
dealers purchase modern furnishing at the Exposition Internationale des Arts
Decoratifs and Industriels Moderns in Paris
1929
The House of Today exhibition tours Eaton's stores
1930
Eaton's opens their College Street store in Toronto devoted to home furnishings
1933
Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario is established
1936
American industrial designer Russle Wright designs a line of maple furniture for Snyder's
in Waterloo, Ontario
1937
modern Canadian furniture is shown in the Canadian Pavillion at the Exposition
Internationale des Arts Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris
1940
architect Eliel Saarinen designs a line of furniture for the Imperial Rattan Company in
Stratford, Ontario
1946
prototypes for the world's first moulded plastic furniture are made at the National
Research Council in Ottawa
1947
industrial design courses start at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto
1949
National Industrial Design Committee is established
1953
first government-sponsored design centre opens in Ottawa
1958
Contemporary Furnishings for the Home exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario
1962
Better Living Centre opens at the Canadian Nation Exhibition
1967
model apartments in Habitat at Expo 67 in Montreal
Virginia Wright, Seduced and Abandoned: Modern Furniture Designers in
Canada, the First Fifty Years, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront,
Toronto, 1985
Allan
Collier, West Coast Modern, exhibition catalogue, The Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, 1988
Robert McKaskell, Sandra Paikowsky, Allan Collier and Virgina Wright, Achieving the Modern:
Canadian Abtract Painting and Design in the 1950s, exhibition catalogue, The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1992
Virginia
Wright, Modern Furniture in Canada 1920 to 1970, University of Toronto Press,
Toronto, 1997