Joyce Brown

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Brown was an interior designer, manager of the "Contemporary Shop", Anthony Hordern Dept Store, Sydney. By 1960, Hordern had established an in-store "Design Centre" selling Fler and Grant Featherston furniture. Brown was also a broadcaster on design on 2BL ABC Radio, winner of 1952 Good Design Award for furniture design from Society of Interior Designers of Australia. She studied at the Sydney Technical College.
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Citations

  • anon. (1 January 1953), '“Womens Interests on the Air Today.”’.

  • “Model Home Display.” The Land, 21 March 1947, p.39

  • “Big Scope for Women.” Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 1955, p.28 (interview with the designer about her career)

  • “Direct from 1960 Furniture Mart” Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May, 1960, p.6. Advertisement showing illus. of Fler, Featherston and Flo-Line furniture.

  • Mary Jane Seymour. “Australian Modern.” Australian Home Beautiful, February 1950, pp.18-19, 25, 67 (illus. of examples of Joyce Brown furniture)

  • 'A place to dine.’ Anthony Hordern & Sons advertisement illustrated Brown’s furniture. Art and Design 1, Ure Smith, 1949, p.67.

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