Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Chauncy, Philip Lamothe Snell, b. 1816
Sketcher, amateur photographer, modeller and surveyor throughout Victoria. Wherever he lived he became acquainted with the Aboriginal people and learned their languages.
Updated Sept. 9, 2014
Hill, Edward
Edward Hill was a cabinet maker who established a furniture manufacturing operation in Devonshire Street, Surry Hills NSW. The company was known as Edward Hill ...
Updated Sept. 5, 2014
Brocklesby, Philip Noah
An 1849 sketch of a cattle station executed by Philip Noah Brocklesby is now in the collection of the Mitchell Library.
Updated Aug. 13, 2014
Rojo, C.F.
Updated Aug. 11, 2014
Sinclair, Ronald, b. 1926
Sinclair was a furniture designer employed by the Tasmanian furniture manufacturing firm F.H. Vallance and Sons.
Updated July 29, 2014
Heathcote, Rex, b. 1954
Heathcote is a furniture designer and maker trading as Rex Heathcote Furniture based in Launceston. He also manufactures furniture from other designers under license including ...
Updated July 28, 2014
Cohen Brothers
Cohen Brothers, a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm est. in the 19th century and exhibiting in the mid-20th century. They produced lounge, dining, bedroom ...
Updated June 22, 2014
Zala, Georgette, b.
Zala was a Sydney interior designer arriving in Australia pre-1939-45 War and specialising in historicist interiors based on reproduction furniture. Her furniture and architecture designs ...
Updated June 1, 2014
Parker, Tony
Tony Parker is one of the two Parker brothers (Tony and Ross) who became principals of Parker Furniture in the 1960s. The Regents Park firm ...
Updated May 25, 2014
Workspace Commercial Furniture
Workspace Commercial Furniture is a South Australia-based furniture designer and manufacturer that began as T. H. Brown in 1911. (see T.H. Brown entry)
Updated May 25, 2014
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Schamburg+Alvisse
A partnership between interior designer Marc Schamburg and architect Michael Alvisse (1993) developing and designing commercial and domestic furniture.
Updated May 18, 2014
Wolfenden, Tony
Wolfenden of the architectural firm Yuncken Freeman has been identified as a furniture designer for the interiors of BHP House, Melbourne in 1971. The work ...
Updated May 18, 2014
Blair Quinn &​ Associates
Alexander Blair and Roger Quinn established a furniture firm in 1966. By 1967, the partnership was dissolved and it was renamed Alexander Blair & Associates. ...
Updated May 18, 2014
Ryan, Les
Ryan is described as a consultant and representative of J. Van Treight furniture. His association is not clear. Van Treight was a furniture design and ...
Updated May 18, 2014
Van Treight
Van Treight was a furniture design and manufacturing firm producing work with Scandinavian overtones as well as lines of period furniture often described as "colonial". ...
Updated May 18, 2014
Perry, Alan G.
Perry is a cabinetmaker, designer and furniture restorer initially working at Ricketts and Thorp, then a technical college teacher after 1973. He is the founder ...
Updated April 29, 2014
Fowler, Vivien, b. 1943
Fowler trained at RMIT, then studied industrial design at UNSW. She worked as an interior designer for McConnell, Smith and Johnson in 1970 and worked ...
Updated April 28, 2014
New South Wales Guild of Furniture Manufacturers
The Guild was active in supporting the design, manufacturing and retailing of Australian and imported furniture. It began in 1953 with a closed session showing ...
Updated April 28, 2014
Montague, Stuart
Montague is a furniture designer with training at the University of Tasmania, Hobart's furniture design programme. While he has designed custom furniture, his work also ...
Updated April 28, 2014
Westra, K.
Westra is a furniture designer and maker in the ACT, working from the suburb of Fyshwick.
Updated April 25, 2014
McDonell, Gerard H. B., b. 1908
McDonell was an architect who designed the house in Gordon (and the dining furniture) that won the 1940 Sulman Award. The 1940 Sulman Award was ...
Updated April 25, 2014
Weitzel, Frank (Friedrich), b. 1905
Weitzel is a New Zealand printmaker, sculptor and decorative artist who lived in Sydney during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Furniture by the artist ...
Updated April 25, 2014
Connell, Chris
Chris Connell is one of the principals of the Melbourne design studio Chris Connell Design and the co-founder of MAP International Furniture (MAP: Merchants of ...
Updated April 9, 2014
Masters, Tony, b. 1947
Masters is the principal of Tony Masters Design, Sydney. Masters trained in interior architecture and his practice works across industrial design, furniture, graphic arts and ...
Updated April 7, 2014
Fabbro, Rinaldo, b.
Fabbro is an Italian-born architect establishing Fabbrostone P/L ca.1964 in Sydney specialising in the use of prefabricated concrete. He developed distinctive finishes and pre-cast panels ...
Updated March 25, 2014