Charles Frederick Beauvais b.

Also known as C.F. Beauvais
  • Designer
Beauvais was an industrial designer. He immigrated to Australia ca.1937 and worked as an artist/illustrator for The Argus, Melbourne, later established a business in Sydney, Industrial Styling Company, Australasia, later his son Peter Beauvais continued the firm as Beauvais Associates, later Beauvais Displays.
Tags: Futurism, Car design, Automobile, Transport systems, War illustrator, Industrial design

Citations

  • Sue Davidson (1998), 'GUIDE TO THE CHARLES FREDERICK BEAUVAIS ARCHIVE (97/195/1) IN THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM’, Australia.

    http://www.hex.powerhousemuseum.com/images/pdfs/302685.pdf

  • Powerhouse Museum (c2012) 'Charles Frederick Beauvis’, D*Hub, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

    http://www.dhub.org/charles-frederick-beauvais/

  • NSW Death Records: 66871/1971

  • (15 October 1945), 'Atomic Age: Artist Forsees New Transport Methods’, Sydney, NSW : Pix, pp.15-16.

  • “Wonders of the Future.” interview with Beauvais. Gippsland Times. 6 January 1947, p.6

  • Richard Wood, “Car of the Future.” in Charles Pickett, ed. Our Driving Passions, Harper Collins, 1998, pp.47-50 (illust.), 55-58

See also

  • Beauvais, Charles Frederick (1936) 'Rear-Engined Car Possibilities' , The Motor (magazine)
  • Beauvis, Charles Frederick (1946) 'The _Post_ War Car', Argus.

Initial data sources

  • Powerhouse Museum
  • Black and white artists