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From the Hand of Man: Ornamented Tools from the Montague Tool Museum
esign is implicit in the making of objects, and it originates with our hands. We are born with these essential, primary tools that shape...
A Toronto Gem: Gustav Hahn and the Spadina Billiard Room Frieze
hen albert and Mary austin returned to toronto after living in Winnipeg for
fourteen years, they decided to commission a local artist to...
Architecture and the Decorative
Editorial by John Fleming
Until the mid-19th century, architecture in the formal European tradition, as opposed to the vernacular, generally followed classical concepts of structure and style. Where structure was...
The Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker
ne does not ordinarily associate early 19th-century Canada with elegance and wealth, yet that is what was presented recently at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in...
Decorating The Ranch: Legacy of an Immigrant Family in Southern Alberta
n the decorative arts collection of the Royal Alberta Museum the gilded frames of the Reed family collection stand out. More valuable than the paintings they...
The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank
The idea for a School of restoration Arts at Willowbank came to Laura Dodson,
a Heritage Canada Board Member, during the time she was president of...
The Art and Architecture of Canadian Cemeteries
n the little Dutch Church Burial Ground in Halifax are the paired tombstones of Philip J. Holland (d.1837) and Sarah Ann Holland (d.1842). Though damaged,...
The sense of an ending: The shape of canoes from bow to stern
here’s nothing like being in a room with more than 400 canoes to start you thinking. To walk through the storage facility and galleries of...