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Industrial design is a subject particularly suited to material culture analysis. The story of the evolution of a national school of design links twentieth-century decorative arts with the interests of historians of technology, soci-ety, economics and art. This article considers the issues and problems facing the industrial design profession in post-war Canada. The 1946 National Gallery of Canada exhibition, Design in Industry, is used to focus the dis-cussion. An important event in its own right, the exhibition illustrated the close relationship between the furniture and aviation industries during the war years, the challenges presented by the adaptation of new materials to product design in the immediate post-war period and the aspirations of the National Gallery to encourage the development of a Canadian school of design. Resume L'esthetique industrielle se prete particuliere-ment bien a l'analyse de la culture materielle. L'evolution d'une ecole nationale de stylisme revele un aspect des arts decoratifs du XXe siecle qui n'est pas sans interesser les his-toriens de la technologie, de la societe, de l'economie et de l'art. Cet article etudie les problemes qui se posaient aux professionnels de l'esthetique industrielle apres la guerre au Canada. L'etude s'attarde principalement a l'exposition d'esthetique industrielle qui a eu lieu au Musee des beaux-arts en 1946. Mani-festation importante en soi, cette exposition illustrait bien les liens etroits qui s'etaient crees entre les industries de l'ameublement et de l'aviation pendant la guerre, les difficultes que posait l'utilisation de materiaux nouveaux dans les produits d'apres-guerre et le desir du Musee des beaux-arts de voir se developper une ecole canadienne de stylisme.
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