Sonja Bata had more shoes than Imelda Marcos—and found a more public-spirited use for them. As a teenager in Zurich, Ms. Bata aspired to become one of the world’s greatest architects. Then, in 1946, ...

Shoes function first as barriers between our bodies and the elements. We slip into and out of them as we do clothes, for protection and comfort, in adherence to social norms, but also to show our ...

Toronto-based design firm BDP Quadrangle has fulfilled a long-held dream of the late Sonja Bata of Bata Shoes fame with the transformation of the decommissioned Bata Shoe Factory in Batawa. Designed ...

While we will be exhibiting the wonderful shoe designs of our students, we have also organised a FREE workshop for budding designers at the Bata Shoe Museum where students will paint and learn the art ...