The end of the Second World War spurred many economies into an optimistic drive to create, innovate and make a lot of money; a source of inspiration to many of in the modern era, some of whom capitalized on the opportunities to innovate style and design in every aspect including the aspects that they happened to be sitting on. Since the mid-summer and ongoing until January 3^rd of next year, Vancouver Art Gallery has and will continue to feature Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia, an exhibit in which an attendee may be astounded to find themselves shifted through time to the fifties, sixties and seventies. The exhibit itself is a collection of furniture, crafts, and designs prominent and prolific which are relevantly symbolic of the ideas which propelled the peoples of that time. Modernism in design saw a movement away from the traditional features which underscored most products of earlier ages which were often restricted to either Gothic or Romanesque lineage of craftsmanship. If I had just returned from an apocalyptic military campaign in Europe, I might have also found myself unable to put up with the induced boredom of traditional design; a sentiment one can easily observe in the attempts of modern furniture to resemble space-age furniture imagined to be constructed of levitating surfaces. The exhibit is an opportunity to travel through time and experience what the labyrinthine mazes of Ikea might have looked like, had they been conceived by previous generations as they labored to escape the shackles of traditionalist design. One is presented with the opportunity to personally admire the beginnings of a movement in design that has inspired much of today’s attempts to transcend concept and bring to reality innovative designs that might have only been considered dreams before. Travel through time before the exhibit moves on, January 3^rd.