Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Lee, Meung , b. 1875
Quong Lee and Co., Furniture manufacturers were located at 38-40 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. They have identified by Michael Lech, curator at the Caroline Simpson Library ...
Updated March 4, 2017
Summertone [furniture] Pty Ltd
"Summertone Pty Ltd was a Sydney manufacturer of chairs, dining tables, desks, sideboards (buffets), occasional tables, wardrobes, dressing tables and bedheads, based in Bankstown, and ...
Updated Dec. 9, 2016
Palmer, Kenneth A., b. 1925
Palmer was a graphic artist also working as an interior designer. He Studied at the Ballarat School of Mines, art and graphics, designed posters, carried ...
Updated Nov. 16, 2016
Gerner, Philip
South Australian video and photographic artist associated with the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide.
Updated Nov. 15, 2016
Stitt, Alexander, b. 1937
Stitt was an artist, illustrator, graphic designer and animator trained at Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT) and began working in film in the late 1950s. ...
Updated Oct. 13, 2016
Howard, Harry
Harry Howard is a furniture designer/maker working from a studio in Kelso (nr Bathurst), NSW
Updated Sept. 8, 2016
Block, Gerd, b. 1926
Renate and Gerd Block worked in partnership as architects. In 1958, they were exhibiting furniture and lighting in "Architecture and Arts". They were the architects ...
Updated Sept. 5, 2016
Block, Renate, b. 1926
Renate and Gerd Block worked in partnership as architects. They were among the first interior architects to design and install the "office landscape" or "Bürolandschaft" ...
Updated Sept. 5, 2016
Dynametric
A Melbourne firm established by Gabriela Matves and Barrie Paxton designing and manufacturing timber-framed lighting and furniture. The work was sold through Matves's Princes Gallery, ...
Updated Aug. 15, 2016
Griva, Arvids
Arvids Griva was a Latvian born carpenter and builder who migrated to Australia after WW2. He later trained as a cabinetmaker and draftsman. He was ...
Updated July 8, 2016
Johnson, Howard, b. 1928
Johnson studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, later working as a designer of metal products, as director of Contours Ltd. Exhibiting furniture at ...
Updated July 8, 2016
W. Coogan & Co.
W. Coogan & Co. is a furniture manufacturer that had a presence in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie in 1912. Founded in the last qtr of ...
Updated July 6, 2016
Tiffany Furniture Company
Tasmanian furniture design and manufacturer. Est. in Launceston in 1946, Tiffany sold wholesale, then after 1982, began direct sales. The principals were James Guy (b.1916) ...
Updated July 6, 2016
Studio Line
A furniture firm based in Brisbane founded by Robert Dunlop. Studio Line furniture worked in timber. [based on information supplied by Geoffrey Cla
Updated July 1, 2016
Dunlop, Robert
Dunlop is the principal of Studio Line, a Queensland-based furniture firm working in timber. [based on information supplied by Geoffrey Clarke]
Updated July 1, 2016
Stapleton, Russell Kenneth, b. 1919
Stapleton was a principal of Standis Furniture Pty Ltd, North Richmond, Victoria. Standis produced period reproductions as well as a line of Danish Modern furniture ...
Updated June 30, 2016
DECRO
DECRO was a furniture and lighting designer and manufacturer based in North Coburg, Melbourne (1955) producing timber and metal forms of furniture and lighting in ...
Updated June 29, 2016
Doukoff, George
Doukoff trained in Bulgaria as a furniture maker, arriving in Australia in 1951. His "volkschair" and other furniture items were put into production in Queensland ...
Updated June 25, 2016
Moderntone Furniture
A furniture designer and maker based at 43 Groom St, Clifton Hill, Victoria.
Updated June 25, 2016
Robinson, Jess
Robinson is a Victorian furniture designer, awarded First Prize in a 1957 Australian Home Beautiful competition.
Updated June 25, 2016
Nilsson, Andy
Nilsson is the founder of Smart Furniture, specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of aged and health care furniture, including patient chairs, dining, visitor ...
Updated June 13, 2016
Form Pty Ltd
Form Pty Ltd, 210 Victoria Street, Carlton, Victoria is described in an advertisement as the licensee for the manufacture and distribution of Knoll furniture in ...
Updated May 25, 2016
Masterwood Furniture
Masterwood Furniture Pty Ltd. designer and maker of period and Scandinavian-style furniture in timber. Advertising brochure says makers of period furniture for 45 yrs and ...
Updated May 16, 2016
Jackson Furniture
Founded by Fred Jackson, the company was established in 1924 as a woodturning operation, later producing work for other clients. By 1934, the firm was ...
Updated May 14, 2016
Sebel, Harry, b. 1915
Sebel was a furniture & toy designer/manufacturer. He worked with his father in metalwork in UK, then establishing a furniture manufacturing works in Sydney. Specialising ...
Updated March 26, 2016