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Virtual Museum of Canada


This online exhibition was developed with the support of the Virtual Exhibits Investment Program, Virtual Museum of Canada.


The Virtual Museum of Canada is managed by the Canadian Museum of History, with the financial support of the Government of Canada.

The Stewart Program for Modern Design

  • Bruce D. Bolton
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    Executive Director Macdonald Stewart Foundation
  • David A. Hanks
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    Curator
  • Kate Clark
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    Executive Assistant
  • Angéline Dazé
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    Registrar

TOAST Studio Inc.

  • Alexandre Gravel
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    Senior Partner
  • David Pieropan
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    Vice President
  • Sandy Suissa
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    Account Services Director
  • Frédérique Dufort-Plante
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    Digital Project Manager
  • Julie Dalbec
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    Producer
  • Mathilde Germain
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    Production coordinator
  • Breno Madeiros
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    Post-Production coordinator

Council for Canadian American Relations

  • Many of the donations of decorative arts and designs in the Stewart Collection (indicated with an asterisk), have been made possible by the Council for Canadian American Relations. The Council advances the appreciation of the arts in both Canada and the United States, and promotes artistic excellence by supporting cultural institutions in both countries.

Philippe Baylaucq

  • Interviews, clips and short films created and directed by Philippe Baylaucq

Parkour3

  • Mathieu Bélanger
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    CEO
  • Jonathan Paquette
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    Artistic Director
  • Benjamin Loiselle
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    Artistic Director
  • Patrick McConnell
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    Project Manager
  • Laura Henvel
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    Project Manager
  • Claude Marc Joseph
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    Developer
  • Alexandre Boivin
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    Developer
  • Susie Loiselle
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    Developer
  • Irene Sierraalta
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    Developer

Espresso Communications

  • Translations and proofreading

Virtual Museum of Canada

  • This online exhibition was developed with the support of the Virtual Exhibits Investment Program, Virtual Museum of Canada. The Virtual Museum of Canada is managed by the Canadian Museum of History, with the financial support of the Government of Canada.

Modernist Abroad

  • Barr Apartment

    Only some dozen photos of the interior of Barr’s Beekman Place apartment survive. Through lenticular lens displays, this video loop recreates the coziness of this modern space. Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq Invention of the auto-stereoscopic device: Philippe Baylaucq Viewing device: ROBOCUT Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Editing and Color grading: Nils Caneele Production: TOAST STUDIO Duration: 1 min 30 s

    Archives : Courtesy of Victoria Barr ; Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

  • Johnson Apartment

    This autostereoscopic loop provides a virtual visit to Philip Johnson’s apartment in 1930. He was a resident of the Southgate Building, at 424 East 52nd Street, New York. Using digital means, the place has been entirely reconstituted from four vintage photographs, architect Mies van der Rohe’s plans, and notes and letters of his partner in the project, Lilly Reich. Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq 3D rendition and stereography: PIXI STUDIO Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Production: TOAST STUDIO Duration: 2 min

    Archives : Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/ Art Resource, NY ; © Estate of Mies van der Rohe/SODRAC (2016)

  • Modern Architecture, International Exhibition

    In 1932, one of the first major exhibitions at the newly founded MoMA, Modern Architecture, was tremendously influential in bringing the International Style to North America. This touch-screen display enables an interactive visit of two designs, late witnesses to this historic exhibition.

    Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq 360 digital image capture of the maquettes: Museum of Modern Art, New York* Post-production of the 360 image: Yannis Guillon, STUDIO 360 SOLUTIONS Interactive creation and interface design: SIMBIOZ Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Production: TOAST STUDIO

    *Use of the image capture of the maquettes courtesy of MoMA Archives : Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin ; Brno City Museum : © Rudolf de Sandalo, 1930s, MuMB-ODAU ; © Claude Caroly ; © Estate of Mies van der Rohe/ SODRAC (2016) ; © FLC/SODRAC (2016) ; © Succession Gilles Ehrmann/ SODRAC (2016) ; © Imagno/Austrian Archives/The Image Works ; © Martine Franck/Magnum Photos ; © Yan Morvan/SODRAC (2016) ; Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

  • Modernists Abroad

    Between 1926 and 1930, Alfred Barr, his wife, Marga, and Philip Johnson travelled several times to Europe, both together and separately. Drawn to avant-garde tendencies, they were deeply transformed by what they encountered there. This video loop attempts to capture the zeitgeist of the period. It provides an autostereoscopic, nine-city itinerary travel log that includes the cities and exhibitions having made a particularly strong impression on them.

    Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Editing, Motion design and Color grading: Guillaume Millet, PEAK MEDIA Conversion to stereoscopy of archive images and stereography: Alain Baril assisted by Tim Miron, STUDIO POST-KOPIC Sound design and sound mix: Benoît Dame, EXSONO Music: Robert Marcel Lepage assisted by Nicolas Borycki Technical Consultant: Marc Doucet, FROUT LOUPZ Production: TOAST STUDIO Duration: 10 min 25 s

    Archives : Archives communales de Poissy ; Arkitektur och Designcentrum Skeppsholmen ; Aviodrome ; Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin : © Erich Comeriner/Galerie David ; © Estate of Herbert Bayer/SODRAC (2016) ; © Estate of Lucia Moholy/ SODRAC (2016) ; © Estate of Walter Gropius/SODRAC (2016) ; photographie de Dr Lossen ; photographie de Ernst Louis Beck ; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec ; bpk, Berlin/Staatliche Museen/Walter Obschonka/Art Resource, NY ; bpk, Berlin/Staatliche Museen/Walter Stiehr/Art Resource, NY ; Brno City Museum : © Rudolf de Sandalo, 1930s, MuMB-ODAU ; “Veletrhy Brno, a.s., Czech Republic” ; Cartographic/National Geographic Creative ; Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal : © Estate of J. J. P. Oud/SODRAC (2016) ; Schusev State Museum of

  • New York 1930s

    New York was the centre of the modern world in 1930. It was a noisy, bustling city, markedly unlike the calm and uncluttered apartments of Johnson and Barr.

    Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Editing, Motion design and Color grading: Guillaume Millet, PEAK MEDIA Sound design and Sound mix: Benoît Dame EXSONO Music: Robert Marcel Lepage assisted by Nicolas Borycki Production: TOAST STUDIO Duration: 1 min 25 s

    Archives : © Imagno/Austrian Archives/ The Image Works ; © The Museum of the City of New York/Art Resource, NY ; Footage Farm ; Library of Congress ; MCNY/Gottscho-Schleisner by Getty Images ; Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations ; The WPA Film Library

  • Bauhaus Diaspora

    This video loop illustrates the history of the closing of Germany’s Bauhaus by the Nazis, the exodus of the influential school’s instructors and their immigration to the American continent with the help of Johnson and the Barrs. Their arrival in the United States forever changed the course of design history, on the continent and throughout the world.

    Conceived and directed by: Philippe Baylaucq Archival Research and Rights Clearance: Odette Desormeaux and Nancy Marcotte Editing, Motion design and Color grading: Guillaume Millet, PEAK MEDIA Sound design and Sound mix: Benoît Dame EXSONO Music: Robert Marcel Lepage assisted by Nicolas Borycki Production: TOAST STUDIO Duration: 10 min 30 s

    Archives : Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin : Photographs by Atlantic Photo-Co., Ernst Louis Beck, Jerry Cooke/ PIX Inc., New York, Howard Dearstyne, Johannes Jacobus van der Linden, Junkers Luftbildzentrale, Etel Mittag-Fodor, Walter Obschonka, Werner Rohde ; © Estate of Lucia Moholy/SODRAC (2016) ; © Estate of Marianne Brandt/SODRAC (2016) ; © Hinnerk Scheper by Dirk Scheper ; © Pius Pahl by Professor Peter Jan Pahl ; © T. Lux Feininger by Estate of T. Lux Feininger ; © Yamawaki Iwao & Michiko Archives ;

    bpk, Berlin/Staatliche Museen/Walter Stiehr/Art resource, NY ; British Pathé ; Cartographic/National Geographic Creative ; © Center for Creative Photography/Hansel Mieth by The Wolfsonian–Florida International University ; Chicago History Museum CHi-15837 ; Courtesy of Historic New England ; Courtesy of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology ;

    Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation : Anni Albers, ca. 1940. Photograph by Gragg’s Studio, Black Mountain, N.C. ; Anni Albers and student in weaving workshop, Black Mountain College, 1944. Photograph by Joseph Breitenbach ; Anni Albers and members of the weaving workshop, Bauhaus Dessau, 1927. Photographer unknown ; Anni Albers at the loom, Black Mountain College, 1941. Photograph by Claude Stoller ; Anni Albers with weaving Under Way, ca. 1963. Photograph by John T. Hill. ; Josef Albers, ca. 1940. Photograph by Gragg’s Studio, Black Mountain, NC ; Josef Albers teaching, Black Mountain College, 1944. Photograph by Joseph Breitenbach ; Josef Albers teaching, Black Mountain College, 1948. Photographer unknown ; Josef and Anni Albers at Tyler Graphics, 1976. Photograph by Betty Fiske ; Josef Albers and students in group critique, Bauhaus Dessau, ca. 1938-1939 © Estate of Umbehr Otto/ SODRAC (2016) ;

    Courtesy of Victoria Barr ; Courtesy University Archives & Special Collections, Illinois Institute of Technology ; CP Images.ca ; Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY : © Homer Page ; © Esto ; © Ferenc Berko, Berkophoto.com ; Footage Farm ; Getty Images ; gta Archives/ETH Zurich, Alfred Roth papers (detail) ; Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive, Denver Art Museum. All works of art and design © Herbert Bayer. Ankunft in New York with Herbert Bayer and Hans Falkner, August 22, 1938 ; © Keystone Pressedienst ; © Jerry Cooke/Corbis ; László Moholy-Nagy with a mobile made by an unidentified student. Institute of Design. February, 1946. Photograph : Vories Fisher ; László Moholy-Nagy with students, Institute of Design, June, 1945. Photograph : Frank Sokolik ; László Moholy-Nagy with a sculpture by a student, Richard Filipowski. Institute of Design. February, 1946.