Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Anderson, Scorgie
Anderson was a founder member of Society of Designers for Industry in Victoria, he studied Univ of Melbourne, worked with Council of Industrial Design, London ...
Updated March 12, 2014
Joyce, Jane
Joyce studied at the Univ of Tasmania, Univ of Melbourne. Together with Michael Trudgeon, she was the co-founder Crowd Productions, Melbourne. She is a designer ...
Updated March 6, 2014
Adroit Displays (Gallery A)
Adroit Displays was a design company established by Max Hutchinson in Flinders Lane, Melbourne and while coordinating an exhibition programme at Gallery A after 1959, ...
Updated March 6, 2014
Herman Miller (Aust) Pty Ltd
A licensee of Herman Miller Inc., manufacturing Herman Miller Furniture in Glen Waverly, Victoria including work by the Eames, as early as 1966. Herman Miller ...
Updated March 6, 2014
Artes Studios
Artes Studio began in 1945 and George Korody was initially Artes Studio’s sole designer. In ca. 1950, Dick van Leer joined Artes Studios and their ...
Updated March 5, 2014
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Griffin, Marion, b. 1871
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and ...
Updated March 5, 2014
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Griffin, Walter Burley, b. 1876
In addition to his achievements as an architect and town planner in the USA and Australia, the Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin practice ...
Updated March 5, 2014
MOBLER
Melbourne-based (Camberwell, Victoria) furniture retailers Max and Mike Oberman, selling the William Latchford & Sons Jens Risom line as well as KOBEN furniture, said to ...
Updated March 5, 2014
A.G. Healing
A. G. Healing was a Melbourne manufacturer who in the early 1930s produced and sold an Australian version of the Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer ...
Updated March 3, 2014
Reed, Cynthia
Reed was a gallery manager and the founder of Cynthia Reed Modern Furnishings, Little Collins Street, Melbourne, a progressive gallery that exhibited work by some ...
Updated March 3, 2014
Rosenblum and Associates
Rosenblum and Associates are identified through a line of steel outdoor furniture produced for the "Hotel Brookvale", designed by H.P. Oser in 1954-1955.
Updated Feb. 25, 2014
Danby, Peter F.
Danby worked from a studio at 11 Stanley Terrace, Surrey Hills, Vic and designed contract furniture as well as laboratory cabinetry ca.1959.
Updated Feb. 19, 2014
Henry, Lucien Félix, b. 1850
A painter, sculptor and designer who was exiled to New Caledonia for his part in the siege of Paris before arriving in Australia in 1879. ...
Updated Jan. 7, 2014
Pillig, Hans
Pillig was a furniture design and maker who worked with the Canberra Furniture Manufacturers Company, ACT and later with Fred Ward at the ANU Design ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2013
Canberra Furniture Manufacturers, ACT
A group of European-trained furniture designers and makers based in the Canberra suburb of Fyshwick, ACT. It included Alfons Stuetz, Oswald Paseka, Hans Pillig and ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2013
Low, Jack
Low was a furniture maker and draughtsperson working with the ANU Design Unit during the period of Fred Ward's leadership.
Updated Dec. 21, 2013
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Wolfhagen, Philip, b. 1963
Winner of the 2007 Wynne Prize, Philip Wolfhagen is a contemporary landscape painter whose critically acclaimed works explore his relationship to, and engagement with, the ...
Updated Nov. 7, 2013
Woods, L.J.K.
Woods was a partner in a furniture and manufacturing firm in Richmond Victoria with G.G. Williams. They designed and manufactured under the name Woods-Williams and ...
Updated Oct. 28, 2013
Williams, G.G.
Williams was a partner in a furniture and manufacturing firm in Richmond Victoria with L.J.K. Woods. They designed and manufactured under the name Woods-Williams and ...
Updated Oct. 28, 2013
Crego, Anthony
A designer for Calyx lighting, Melbourne, also designed dining furniture with work Illustrated in Architecture and Arts, July, 1954, p.41.
Updated Oct. 28, 2013
Coote, John Young, b. 1949
Coote is an interior designer and furniture maker active in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, later ...
Updated May 8, 2013
Hansen, Marjorie, b. 1922
Noongar artist who grew up on the Carrolup Native Settlement. Hansen is represented in the collection of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.
Updated May 2, 2013
Bailey, Ian, b. 1944
Bailey was an architect and designer active in Sydney and later in Kendall NSW. He designed furniture and developed a system known as "FLEXIBRACE" for ...
Updated April 13, 2013
Vibert, Philip Henry, b. 1861
Cabinetmaker who was apprenticed to Henry Bridge in 1881. He had his own cabinetmaking business in Fitzgerald Street Perth by 1916. Here he had a ...
Updated March 31, 2013
Cohen, Eustace Gresley, b. 1882
Architect and designer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1920 and 1922. Cohen's architecture was distinctive and he designed furniture in ...
Updated March 31, 2013