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Douglas Snelling

Architect

Snelling came to Australia in 1942 following work in the USA. and New Zealand. During the 1939-45 war, he returned to the. and worked with the U.S. Navy and the Kriesler Radio Company. In 1947 he formed a partnership in Sydney to manufacture furniture to his designs. This became Functional Products. His subsequent interior design and architecture career in Australia and elsewhere parallels his embrace of modernism.

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Citations

Powerhouse Museum, 'Chair and stool by Douglas Snelling’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
http://from.ph/126047
Sarah Payne (1 January 1988), '“1947. Functional Products.”’. Craft Australia. 1988:1, pps. 61-65
State Library of NSW (1 January 2012), 'Douglas B. Snelling : architectural drawings 1965-1972’.
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=395089
Davina Jackson (1 January 2012), 'Douglas Snelling’.
http://douglas-snelling.com/book/
“Mary White Pty Ltd.” advert. illus. interiors work by Snelling, Architecture and Arts, June 1956, p.22

Initial data sources

Powerhouse Museum

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