Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Pandar Furniture
The Australian Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Design site reports that Pandar was formed by the British designer Bernard Goss after he arrived in Melbourne in ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
Crow and Associates
A Melbourne design consultancy founded in 1959 by Ted Worsley and John S. Crow, drawing on furnishings supplied by Stuarts of South Yarra.
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
Latchford Furniture ( "William Latchford and Sons.")
William Latchford and Sons, Box Hill, Victoria was a contract furniture maker and the manufacturer of the Jens Risom line in Australia. This firm also ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
Crow, John F. S., b. 1925
Crow was a designer for Stuart's furniture, South Yarra, Victoria. He trained in the Melbourne Technical College industrial and interior design programme. In 1949, he ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
Matves, Gabrielle
Matves is identified as a designer and gallery manager (Princes Gallery, Melbourne) in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne ...
Updated Aug. 10, 2021
Wrigley, Derek, b. 1924
Wrigley practiced architecture in the UK and Australia. Formerly employed as a lecturer Manchester College of Art, UK, lecturer at NSW University of Technology (now ...
Updated July 20, 2021
Wilkinson, Jeffery, b. 1921
While Wilkinson is best known as a potter and teacher at Melbourne Technical College, he also worked in metal sculpture and designed timber furniture in ...
Updated July 17, 2021
de Gruchy, Graham
De Gruchy is a South African architect and designer associated with the design retailer "Craftsman's Market", Brisbane. He worked for the Qld Public Works department ...
Updated Feb. 21, 2021
W.D. Wallace & Co Pty Ltd
Updated Feb. 5, 2021
Lazarus, Valerie, b. 1901
Known as a painter, a large number of her oil paintings are portraits and landscapes of the Sydney area.
Updated Dec. 31, 2020
Hall, Fiona, b. 1953
Born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, Fiona Hall is an award winning photographer, sculptor and installation artist exploring themes of globalization, colonialism and ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Grounds, Betty
Betty Grounds is a designer active in fashion and interiors. Grounds was a partner in Zara Holt's fashion boutique, Melbourne from 1948. On one documented ...
Updated Nov. 22, 2020
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Lindsay, Norman, b. 1879
Extremely well-known Australian artist, author and cartoonist, Lindsay produced a prolific number of illustrations, cartoons, prints, drawings and paintings throughout his career. He worked as ...
Updated Aug. 11, 2020
Conrad Rodd
Conrad Rodd, a Berlin-born designer working as Rodd Design and other trade names was a furniture designer and maker in a sawn-timber style as well ...
Updated July 30, 2020
McLay, Roger, b. 1922
Roger McLay began working in industrial design after 1947. McLay's most celebrated work, the "Kone" chair, was developed and sold from 1948. From the mid-1950s ...
Updated July 1, 2020
Burrell, Jane, b. 1951
Jane Burrell, a children's book illustrator and scientific illustrator born in Hobart, Tasmania, is best known for her scraperboard illustrations of Australian wildlife.
Updated June 24, 2020
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Fooks, Ernest, b. 1906
Progressive European-trained emigre architect who made important contributions to architectural and cultural life of Melbourne during and after World War II. Fooks' practice also encompassed ...
Updated May 4, 2020
Joyce, Bernard
Joyce trained in architecture at the University of Melbourne. In 1955, he and David Brunton were awarded 1st prize for bedroom and living room furniture ...
Updated May 4, 2020
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Featherston, Grant, b. 1922
Featherston was an Industrial design and design industry leader. Recognised for his furniture and exhibition work in partnership with Mary Featherston, he helped to form ...
Updated May 2, 2020
Boyd, Robin (Gerard Penleigh), b. 1919
Mid 20th century Melbourne Modernist architect, author, critic and illustrator. Born into the artistic Boyd dynasty, he was a partner of the Grounds, Romberg and ...
Updated May 2, 2020
Rosando Bros.
Melbourne-based furniture designers and makers, Paul and Michael Rosta, active in the last half of the 20th century. Their work is commonly in timber, featuring ...
Updated April 29, 2020
Collett, Annabelle, b. 1956
Collett was a mixed media artist who designed costume, furniture, textiles, painted, designed interiors and assembled work from her "Museum of 20th Century Fabric", a ...
Updated April 25, 2020
E.C. Goulder & Sons
A family furniture and upholstery company E.W. Goulder and Sons, Bowral. A descendent, Jon Goulder is an Australian furniture designer and maker.
Updated April 12, 2020
Goulder, Jon, b. 1970
Goulder is a furniture designer and maker who began his career in his family's furniture company E.W. Goulder and Sons, Bowral. He studied at the ...
Updated April 12, 2020