Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Grey, Molly
Grey was an interior designer active in Sydney (working for David Jones, 1937, and others) as well as a furniture designer for Ricketts and Thorp, ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
De Groot, Francis, b. 1888
De Groot was a quixotic Sydney character from his arrival from Ireland in 1910 until his return to Dublin in 1950. Best known for his ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Ward, Fred (Frederick C.), b. 1900
Ward was a designer who studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and began a design career in the 1920s, later working for Myer Emporium. ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Roberts, Hera, b. 1892
A flamboyantly stylish and well known designer working in the bold modernist style of the 1920s and 1930s. Very much part of the Sydney social ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Lipson, Samuel, b. 1901
Lipson was an architect and designer active in furniture and interior design during the 1940s and 1950s. Working alone, he designed domestic furniture such as ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Headlam, Kristin, b. 1953
Melbourne based painter who uses photographic images in her artistic process.
Updated Dec. 9, 2023
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