Donald W. Buchanan promoted what he considered to be good modern product design through his Industrial Design Division ("The Design Centre") of the National Gallery of Canada, where, from 1947 to 1953, he organized exhibitions as well as establishing the “Design Index.” University of Manitoba Architecture Dean Milton Osborne hired his architecture graduate Joan Harland to teach interior design as early as 1939 and she founded the county’s first Interior Design Department there a decade later, training an outstanding group of interior designers including Grant Marshall and Cynthia Bookbinder Coop, who are represented in this exhibition. Upper register, left to right: Perspective 1963 (University of Manitoba), open to a spread celebrating Joan Harland (University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections); Perspective 1953 (University of Manitoba), open to a spread on “Fundamentals: Interior Design” (University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections); Canadian Art (March 1947) open to Donald W. Buchanan, “The Design of Household Goods”; Lower register, left to right: Perspective 1957 (University of Manitoba), open to a spread showing Interior Design and Architecture theses at the University of Manitoba (University of Manitoba Libraries); Canadian Art (Spring 1954), open to show an advertisement for The Design Centre at the National Gallery of Canada; Canadian Art (February 1946), open to a spread about Donahue and Simpson’s “moulded fabric” plastic chair, the first of its kind anywhere. (Unless otherwise indicated, objects are from a private collection)