Title & Author:

Made in Canada : craft and design in the sixties / edited by Alan C. Elder.

Publication:

Montréal : Published for Design Exchange, Toronto in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Civilization by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005.

Description:

xiv, 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Notes" (chiefly bibliographical) : p. [117]-128
Preface / Douglas Coupland -- Foreword : design exchange / Samantha Sannella -- Foreword : Canadian Museum of Civilization / Victor Rabinovitch -- Introduction : Canada in the sixties -- "it can do almost anything" / Alan C. Elder -- 1. When "la Dolce Vita" met "true Canadianism" : Canadian airports in the sixties / Bernard Flaman -- 2. "Instant world" : Canada and space-age design in the sixties / Rachel Gotlieb -- 3. A flag for Canada / Michael Large -- 4. Excellence, inventiveness, and variety : Canadian fine crafts at Expo 67 / Sandra Alfoldy -- 5. Habitat '67 : view from the inside / Paul Bourassa -- 6. Capsules : plastic and utopia / Brent Cordner -- 7. Design to be modern : Canada's taste for Scandinavian design in the sixties / Michael Prokopow -- 8. When counterculture went mainstream / Alan C. Elder.

Resources:
c2005.
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0773528733 (pbk.)
9780773528734

Subject:

Design Canada History 20th century.
Design Government policy Canada History 20th century.
Nineteen sixties.
Design Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Politique gouvernementale Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Années soixante (Vingtième siècle)
Design
Kunsthandwerk
Canada
Kanada

Form/genre:

History
Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Elder, Alan C., 1955-
Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Design Exchange (Firm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 234126
Call No.: NK1413.A1 M33 2005
Status: Available