Slideshow: Canadian Modern exhibition
TORONTO -- Furniture is a star attraction of Canadian Modern, a curated exhibition of Canada’s modern design and craft movement, running through July 31 at the Royal Ontario Museum.
According to the ROM’s website, the “exhibition showcases 100 examples of culturally significant, limited-edition and mass-produced objects designed and crafted in Canada, and the stories of insight, experimentation, and innovation behind them.”
In addition to furniture, Canadian Modern features fashion, jewelry, electronics, inlcuding the iconic Blackberry. Alfred Sung, Michael Massie, Hugh Spencer, Jeremy Laing, Jeff Goodman, Karin Jones, Michael Fortune, and Daphne Odjig are among the designers represented.
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