Archives for Feature Articles - Page 9
A Passage Through Time And Space: The Hall in Victorian Row-house Architecture
s a gateway into the home, the front hall serves to convey an important first impression of wealth, status, and aesthetic taste. Nowhere more...
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...
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...
Industrial Design: Form, Function, and the Concept Car
rnamentum: Could you talk a bit about the relationship between form...
From Boneshaker to the Pneumatic Tire
like to think that the passion for collecting is rooted in humanity’s prehistory as hunters and gatherers, that it feeds upon our...
“Nose Art” In The Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-1945
mmortalized in books, movies, and song, the practice of applying illustrative graphics to aircraft during wartime has existed almost since the Wright...