Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Chen, Ah
Ah Chen has been identified by Michael Lech, curator at the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, Sydney as a Melbourne furniture maker active in ...
Updated Feb. 26, 2015
Wing, J.W.
J.W. Wing has been identified by Michael Lech, curator at the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, Sydney as a Perth, WA furniture maker active ...
Updated Feb. 26, 2015
Lane, Ena, b. 1957
Ena Lane Napangarti paints for Papunya Tjupi Art Centre. Her main subject is the Lupul story she learned from her parents, Haast Bluff painters Long ...
Updated Jan. 6, 2015
Chapman, William Neate, b. 1773
Sketcher and public servant, Chapman was a family friend of first Governor Arthur Phillip but it was with Philip Gidley King that he first came ...
Updated Jan. 1, 2015
Andrewartha, S.
S. Andrewartha was a furnishings and furniture maker based in Richmond, Victoria ca. 1923. The firm was founded in 1900 and remained in operation making ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2014
David Jones Ltd.
In addition to David Jones Ltd's role as a department store, they also designed and manufactured timber furniture, much of it in an oak Arts ...
Updated Nov. 21, 2014
Barlow, Marcus R.
Barlow is identified as the architect of the Manchester Unity Building, Melbourne and the designer of an extensive suite of furniture for this building.
Updated Nov. 19, 2014
Ward, Dudley
Ward was an architect and interior designer whose career began in the 1930s. He was the designer of Sydney's Minerva Theatre and the Tivoli. He ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2014
Waterhouse, Bertrand James, b. 1876
B.J. Waterhouse was a Sydney architect who was actively involved in the NSW art world during the first half of the twentieth century, both as ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2014
J. Mackie and Co., Newcastle
J. Mackie and Co. Pty Ltd are identified as timber furniture designers and makers through illustrations of their work for the NRMA Building, Newcastle.
Updated Nov. 18, 2014
Newland Bros.
Newlands was a Surry Hills (252-284 Riley St) furniture design and manufacturing company founded in 1908 specialising in steel and steel tubing furniture as early ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2014
Muskett, Alice Jane, b. 1869
Federation era painter, illustrator and author. Residing for most of her life in Sydney, she was internationally exhibited.
Updated Nov. 5, 2014
Mora, Philip
Updated Oct. 30, 2014
Walker, Theresa, b. 1807
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Updated Oct. 28, 2014
Munnoch Business Furniture
Munnoch was a designer and manufacturer working from 294 Botany Road, Alexandria NSW as early as 1946. By the 1960s, Munnoch Pty Ltd was advertising ...
Updated Oct. 27, 2014
Quaine, Caroline
Quaine is an industrial designer, co-founder Norman and Quaine, Surry Hills, 1989. She worked with Mitchell/Guirgola and Thorp on Canberra's Parliament House and later formed ...
Updated Oct. 26, 2014
Norman, Katherine
Norman is an interior designer, co-founder Norman and Quaine, Surry Hills, 1989. She worked with Mitchell/Guirgola and Thorp on Canberra's Parliament House and later formed ...
Updated Oct. 24, 2014
Cowell, Douglas
Cowell was the supervisor of the interior design department of Bebarfalds. In the 1930s, the furniture department provided interior sketch plans & ground plans for ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2014
Berkeley, Martha Maria Snell, b. 1813
England-born resident of Australia's southern states, Berkeley is best known for her large watercolours of Adelaide and as a gifted portraitist. The Art Gallery of ...
Updated Oct. 15, 2014
Whitesides, Vera Lindsay, b. 1886
Described as a women of charm, Vera was a versatile artist proficient in a wide range of art and craft media. Best known in her ...
Updated Oct. 1, 2014
Palmer, , b. 1831
Although untrained, Palmer's hand has created little glimpses into rural Tasmanian life in the nineteenth century we would not otherwise have had.
Updated Oct. 1, 2014
Hayes, Philip
Updated Oct. 1, 2014
Joyce, Pamela
Updated Sept. 12, 2014
Healing, Alfred G., b. 1868
Healing was initially a manufacturer of bicycles. The company diversified and designed and manufactured furniture, white goods, radios, televisions. They also employed professional industrial designers ...
Updated Sept. 10, 2014
Colour-Craft Interiors
Colour-Craft Interiors, 266 Oxford St, Paddington designed and manufactured upholstered lounge furniture, dining room, bedroom and occasional furniture in "walnut", and maple veneer as well ...
Updated Sept. 10, 2014