Sonja bata biography
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Sonja bata biography
Sonja Bata
Sonja Ingrid BataOC MSM CD (or Sonja Baťová; née Wettstein; 8 November 1926 – 20 February 2018) was a Swiss Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, collector and museum founder, who initially trained as an architect.[2][3]
Biography
She left her architecture studies after her marriage to Thomas J.
Bata of Bata Shoes and moved to Toronto in 1946, befriending those in the architecture community – Raymond Moriyama designed the Bata Shoe Museum, while John Cresswell Parkin designed the impressive Don Mills headquarters of Bata Shoes and the family's country house in Batawa.[4] Though she had earlier envisioned herself to become a great architect, she set her designs on improving the Bata Shoe company.
Also in the 1940s, she began collecting shoes and studying their history.
In 1979, she endowed the Bata Shoe Museum Foundation. The Bata Shoe Museum, established in 1995, is the world's largest shoe museum, and the cor