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THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN DESIGN
The history of Canadian industrial design, including contemporary furniture, has been marked by a double emphasis. While the adoption and development of modernist principles (e.g., the honest use of materi¬als and processes to satisfy functional needs in an industrial context) has constituted the ostensible core of design education and promotion in Canada, concern with issues of national identity has also played a signif¬icant role.
'To strengthen cultural identity, enhance our standard of living, and create wealth in the economy by fostering a demand for sustainable Cana¬dian design' is the vision statement of the Design Exchange ('Canada's design museum and centre for design research and education'). This is a telling hierarchy of concerns and goes some distance to explain the state of design in Canada today.
The Design Exchange is the latest incarnation of the impulse (born in the early years after the Second World War) to help develop a design indus¬try in Canada that would be equal to German, American, or Scandinavian models.