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Hyett, Bruce

Hyett was the principal of Wycombe Industries, a furniture manufacturing firm established in Geelong in 1950. His work was sold through Andersons, Prahan and appears ...

Updated Nov. 26, 2023

Putnam, Roger, b. 1940

Putnam first joined the Design Institute of Australia (IDCA) in 1972 and was awarded a DIA Fellowship in the early 2000s. He designed furniture for ...

Updated Nov. 8, 2023

James, R. Haughton ("Jimmy"), b. 1906

R. Haughton ["Jimmy"] James's first local practice, the Design Centre, Sydney, was with Geoff and Dahl Collings. His first known designs in Sydney were radio ...

Updated Nov. 3, 2023

Korody, George, b.

George Korody was a founding member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia and a vice-president in 1952. Describing himself as a former professor ...

Updated Sept. 22, 2023

Kerry, Paula, b. 1923

Kerry was an associate of Bill Onus, principal of Aboriginal Enterprises. Her work with Onus began in the late 1940 and she became one of ...

Updated Sept. 19, 2023

Russell, John Peter, b. 1858

Painter John Peter Russell spent three decades living and working in Europe where Vincent Van Gogh was a fellow student in Paris. With his extensive ...

Updated Sept. 1, 2023

Streeton, Arthur, b. 1867

A member of the Heidelberg School and part of the famous '9 x 5' Impressions Exhibition in Melbourne, Arthur Streeton spent a number of years ...

Updated Aug. 31, 2023

Caon, David, b. 1977

Caon is an industrial designer who has worked in Milan with Mondadori (publishers) and George Sowden. In 2003, he began working with Marc Newson in ...

Updated Aug. 7, 2023

Jelinek, Alex, b. 1925

Alex Jelinek was a Czech-born architect and designer best known for the 1957 Benjamin House in Canberra, considered a significant contribution to experimental modernism in ...

Updated June 17, 2023

Ebenston, Joshua, b. 1835

Joshua Ebenston was a skilled cabinet-maker in colonial Brisbane. However, because furniture from his workshop was unmarked we know of the quality of his work ...

Updated June 12, 2023

Brown, Joyce

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 ...

Updated June 8, 2023

Coleman, Alfred Benjamin, b. 1885

Alfred Benjamin Coleman (1885-1948) was a Victorian painter of landscapes and seascapes, active also in local art societies. He began his working life in the ...

Updated May 17, 2023

'Clarke and Flood and Hearn - The Ludlow all-slug, system'

by Flood, Noel, Hearn, Ray.

'Clarke and Flood and Hearn - The Ludlow all-slug, system' Contemporary Art Society of Victoria and Joan Gough Gallery, South Yarra, Melbourne. Sculptural Ceramics by ...

Updated May 12, 2023

Rosenstengel, Edmund, b. 1887

Rosenstengel is the principal of Rosenstengel Brisbane, a designer and maker of domestic furniture. He began his career at Rosenstengel & Kleimeyer, Toowoomba QLD, later ...

Updated May 5, 2023

Lyon, Cottier & Co.

Lyon, Cottier & Co. began in Sydney in 1873 with premises in Pitt Street. The company specialized in painted schemes & glass, but dealt in ...

Updated May 5, 2023

Ostoja-Kotkowski, Stanislaus, b. 1922

Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski, abstract expressionist painter, theatre set designer, photographer, experimental film producer and light and sound artist was born in Golub, Poland in 1922 ...

Updated April 26, 2023

Buzacotts & Company Ltd

Buzacotts (Qld) Ltd designed & manufactured chrome steel tube furniture under the brand "Steeluxe". (NB: Design historian Virginia Wright UTS) maintains Steeluxe furniture was not ...

Updated March 22, 2023

Kral, George, b. 1929

Kral was a designer initially active in Melbourne where he was a founder member of the Gallery A commercial design team. He carried out exhibition ...

Updated Dec. 1, 2022

Amor, Rick, b. 1948

Contemporary Melbourne painter, printmaker and political cartoonist. In 1999 the Australian War Memorial appointed Amor as an official war artist, along with Archibald Prize-winning painter ...

Updated Nov. 20, 2022

NAMCO

NAMCO (National Art Metal Company P/L) is a designer and manufacturer of metal furniture and housewares. Their advertisements appeared frequently in Australian House and Garden ...

Updated Oct. 3, 2022

Lee, Gary Philip, b. 1952

Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist who has worked as a designer in a range of media, a curator and now works primarily as a ...

Updated Oct. 1, 2022

Ingeborg, Karen

Ingeborg is described as a Sydney-based designer producing kit furniture in her "Sweden-craft" range in The Australian Dream, Design of the Fifties, Judith O'Callaghan, ed. ...

Updated Aug. 20, 2022

Hutchinson, Max, b. 1925

Max Hutchinson was a founding member of the Society of Designers for Industry in Australia. In 1959, he opened Gallery A, Melbourne. In 1963, he ...

Updated Aug. 1, 2022

Howard, Ian, b. 1923

Howard is the founder of Aristoc, a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm (1946-1968). Aristoc produced furniture for Grant Featherstone, Fred Lowen, Ernst Rodeck, William ...

Updated May 27, 2022

Aristoc Industries Pty Ltd

Aristoc Industries was a Victorian company founded by Ian Howard in 1946. Grant Featherstone acted as design director at some point (tenure uncertain but active ...