Bibliography    Acknowledgements    About This Exhibit

Bibliography

Secondary Sources

Cole, A.O.C. Trent: The Making of a University 1957-1987. Peterborough, Trent University, 1992.

Conran Directory of Design. Edited by Stephen Bayley. London, Conran Octopus, 1985.

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter. 1000 Chairs. Köln, Taschen Verlag, 2000.

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter. Chairs. Köln, Taschen, 2001.

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter. Modern Chairs. Köln, Taschen Verlag, 1993.

Joy, Edward T. The Country Life Book of Chairs. London, Country Life, 1967.

Julier, Guy. The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Design and Designers. London, Thames and Hudson, 1993.

Shadbolt, Douglas. Ron Thom: The Shaping of an Architect. Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 1995.

World Furniture: An Illustrated History. Edited by Helena Hayward. London, Hamlyn, 1965.

Archival Sources

Thom, Ron. "Architecture and the College." Paper delivered at the University of Illinois, ca.1968.

Photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings and university records housed at Trent University Archives. Pepers include records of the Campus Planning Committee, Site Development Committee, and correspondence files.

NOTE: The Ron Thom papers are located at the Canadian Architectural Archives, MacKimmie Library, University of Calgary (http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/CAA/). These papers were not consulted for this exhibit.

On-line Sources (links last checked April 2003)

Bauhaus Archives and Museum of Design, Berlin
http://www.bauhaus.de
[Letters, photographs of Walter Grapius to Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright.]

Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen
http://www.ddc.dk/
[Jacobsen, Wegner, Klint]

Design Exchange, Toronto
http://www.dx.org/
[Located in the old Toronto stock exchange building, 234 Bay Street.]

Design Museum, London
http://www.designmuseum.org/
[Aalto, Eames, Jacobsen]

Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/
[Aalto, Eames, Jacobsen]

Note: Designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner have sites specifically devoted to their work.

Acknowledgements

Photographers have been credited where known.

This web site was designed by Jodi Aoki, with research and photography by Bernadine Dodge.

About This Exhibit

In an era of great change and development in post-secondary education in Ontario, it seemed timely to create a web site to memorialize and capture the essence of Ron Thom's building designs and structures at Trent University. Thom, as Master Architect, was also instrumental in choosing for the University many treasures of modern design. Over the years, many of these treasures have disappeared, and it seemed expedient, as well, before they disappeared completely, to create a site to memorialize their existence.

As creator of this exhibit, Trent University Archives would be most pleased to learn of items of furniture of other designers whose works were chosen for Trent at its inception, that may have been missed.

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