Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Catt, Roy, b.
Catt was a principal of the furniture manufacturing firm Charles Catt &​ Son furniture designers and manufacturers, 20 Gympie Way, Willetton WA. [See entry for ...
Updated May 19, 2022
Archibald, Norman , b. 1937
Archibald is a furniture designer active ca.1973 developing furniture for Nore Furniture Pty Ltd, Bayswater, Victoria.
Updated May 16, 2022
Lowen, Fred
Lowen is a furniture designer and manufacturer, also working occasionally as a caricaturist, one of the 'Dunera Boys' interned in Hay and Tatura during the ...
Updated May 15, 2022
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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 May 12, 2022
Star Furnishers
Star Furnishers is a furniture designer/maker exhibiting modernist timber furniture in a WA furniture exhibition in 1966.
Updated May 10, 2022
Jay-Mac Quality Furniture
Jay-Mac was a brand created by J. McCain P/L, Lewisham, NSW. Their work (dining table and four upholstered chairs) was shown in a Lawsons auction, ...
Updated April 9, 2022
Lucas, Bill, b. 1924
Bill Lucas was a Sydney architect best known for his own Lucas house, aka Glass House, Castlecrag (1958). During the early 1950s, he also designed ...
Updated March 26, 2022
, Wrightbilt
Wrightbilt is identified as Wrightbilt Fashion Furniture active after 1960 advertising their "TV Chair" nationally in the "Australian Womens Weekly" and on TV. By 1961, ...
Updated March 20, 2022
Robinson, Peter
Robinson is a furniture designer developing tubular steel furniture for Robmac and Company, Bankstown NSW ca.1972.
Updated Jan. 14, 2022
McMeekin, Ivan, b. 1919
Ivan McMeekin was the founder of the Sturt Pottery at Mittagong and one of the founders of the Potters Society of Australia. From 1959-78, he ...
Updated Jan. 8, 2022
Easden, Gerald, b. 1934
Easden was a furniture and interior designer working across the industry in the UK, Victoria and Canberra. He had extensive experience designing furniture and interiors ...
Updated Dec. 8, 2021
Goatcher, Phil, b. 1851
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he ...
Updated Nov. 15, 2021
Rudowski, Jakob, b. 1927
Rudowski arrived in Australia ca. 1960 and was naturalised in 1962 with an address in St Kilda. His original address unknown. Many of his Melbourne ...
Updated Sept. 23, 2021
Baker, Arthur W., b. 1894
Baker is described as the director of the Commonwealth Moulding P/L, Arncliffe NSW. The firm designed and manufactured moulded consumer products such as torches, wireless ...
Updated Sept. 20, 2021
, Rosenfeldt Gherardin & Associates
Rosenfeldt, Gherardin & Associates was a design practice established by Ron Rosenfeldt and Walter Gherardin in Melbourne.
Updated Sept. 18, 2021
Rosenfeldt, Ron
Rosenfeldt studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, worked as a designer for Myer, Melbourne, principal Rosenfeldt-Gheradin Associates, also a design lecturer Univ. of ...
Updated Sept. 18, 2021
Coulter, Neville J.
Coulter was an architect who was designing furniture in a Moderne style in the mid-1930s from an office in Brighton-le-Sands. A cocktail bar designed by ...
Updated Sept. 16, 2021
Hunt, Son and Oliver Pty Ltd
Hunt, Son and Oliver Pty Ltd, Rupert Street, Collingwood is described as a large Melbourne furniture manufacturer in 1937. Their work is characterised by solid ...
Updated Sept. 15, 2021
McLeod-Dean
Steel and glass furniture by this group is known. Their work sold through Andersons, Prahan and appears in the retailer's advertisements.
Updated Sept. 10, 2021
Doube, Gerard
Gerard Doube, in partnership with Isobel Doube began a furniture company in 1953. Gerard trained at the Melbourne Technical College and the Natl Gallery School. ...
Updated Sept. 10, 2021
Doube, Isobel
Isobel Doube, in partnership with Gerard Doube began a furniture company in 1953. They worked as artists, furniture designers and makers, later turning to fashion. ...
Updated Sept. 10, 2021
Davenport, David
Davenport is a furniture designer and maker, working in Melbourne with Rory Davenport for Illogical Study's Furniture Manufacture firm.
Updated Aug. 26, 2021
Davenport, David
Davenport is a furniture designer and maker, working in Melbourne for Illogical Study's Furniture Manufacture firm.
Updated Aug. 26, 2021
Kafka, Paul Ernst, b. 1907
Kafka was a Viennese furniture maker who arrived in Australia in 1939 and worked under the name, Paul Kafka Exclusive Furniture Pty Ltd. He executed ...
Updated Aug. 13, 2021
Surtees, George, b. 1922
Surtees trained in Budapest and worked in Sydney in interior design, commercial display, furniture and other design-related work for commercial clients.
Updated Aug. 11, 2021