Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Reves, George, b. 1910
George Reves (sometimes spelt Reeves) was an architect and designer of commercial interiors and buildings in Sydney. He registered as an architect in NSW in ...
Updated March 31, 2019
Hearn, Ernest
Ernest was the son of Walter Vincent Hearn, cabinetmaker/chair maker. He founded the furniture firm Hearnstead with twin brother Harry. The firm was known as ...
Updated Feb. 22, 2019
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Meadmore, Clement, b. 1929
Well known as a sculptor, Meadmore began his career as a designer. His furniture was sold at Marion Hall Best’s showrooms and his lighting design ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2019
Rodeck, Ernest, b. 1919
Rodeck was a trained engineer who collaborated with Fred Ward to found FLER furniture.
Updated Feb. 4, 2019
Foulkes-Taylor, David, b. 1929
David Phillips Foulkes-Taylor was born in 1929. He was designer, art connoisseur and entrepreneur, working from a studio (after 1957) in Crawley, WA. He was ...
Updated Feb. 4, 2019
Anderson, Bruce, b. 1926
Anderson is described as a University of Melbourne graduate active in design. He worked with the Council of Industrial Design, London and was active in ...
Updated Feb. 4, 2019
Wickham, Ben, b. 1949
Ben Wickham's assured skill as a draftsman was evident in his early exhibiting career but his peripatetic lifestyle mitigated against its full development.
Updated Jan. 31, 2019
Peggy Stokes P/L,
Peggy Stokes P/L was the business name of two unidentified sisters based in Bowral NSW who made furniture and furnishings for the interior designer Hilda ...
Updated Jan. 17, 2019
Crown Crystal Glass
Crown Crystal Glass was a design and manufacturing firm formed in the early 20th century and in addition to their glass, they also employed industrial ...
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
Mountjoy Furniture,
Furniture manufacturing business set up by Eric Stokes in 1954. Stokes and his wife, Constance had seen outdoor furniture made plastic piping stretched over a ...
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
Supa Furn
Supa Furn was a modernist timber and steel-based furniture designer/maker exhibiting in a West Australian furniture exhibition in 1966. Images available: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd341/341699PD.jpg
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
Van Seppler, H.
H. Van Sepp is a furniture designer/maker exhibiting in a WA furniture trade exhibition in 1966. Images available at http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd341/341706PD.jpg
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
J. Heiduk and Son
J. Heiduk and Son was a modernist furniture designer/maker exhibiting in a West Australian furniture exhibition in 1966. Images available: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd341/341702PD.jpg
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
W. E. Young and Co.
W. E. Young and Co. were furniture designers/makers exhibiting their "Tru-Style" upholstered furniture line in a furniture exhibition in West Australia in 1966. Images available: ...
Updated Jan. 14, 2019
Updated Dec. 16, 2018
A. Simpson & Son
A.M. Simpson and Son incorporated 1910 in South Australia and began the design and manufacture of whitewoods. Designs were undertaken by Woods Bagot and other ...
Updated Dec. 16, 2018
Walter Knoll Australia
"Walter Knoll" was a firm established by Walter Knoll (1876-1971), a well-established furniture designer and maker with original headquarters in Germany. In 1980 "Walter Knoll ...
Updated Dec. 15, 2018
Schildt, F.U.
Described as a furniture maker and importer, The West Australian newspaper (1904) reports that Schildt had opened an establishment in Hay Street, Perth WA. By ...
Updated Nov. 26, 2018
Rickard, Bruce, b. 1929
Bruce Rickard (1929-2010) was a Sydney and US-educated architect who created some of Sydney's outstanding 'organic' houses (mainly timber and brick) from the late 1950s ...
Updated Nov. 22, 2018
Jones, Bernard
Jones is identified as a Roseville, Sydney furniture designer and maker with manufactured modernist and period furniture appearing (and retailing) in 1953 - 1963.
Updated Nov. 15, 2018
Bunbury, Lester
Bunbury's career as a furniture designer and lecturer began in the mid-20th century. He worked with Fred Ward for the Myer Emporium in-house studio and ...
Updated Oct. 20, 2018
Woods, Ivan
Woods was an interior architect specialising in commercial interiors. He trained in design in West Australia (Leederville Technical College) and worked for the Schiavello Group, ...
Updated Oct. 16, 2018
Lowe, Andrew
Andrew Lowe is the principal of Lowe Furniture, a Melbourne firm with a special interest in timber furniture. He has been an active furniture designer/maker ...
Updated Oct. 16, 2018
Bailey & Sons
Bailey & Sons were furniture makers in Edwardstown, South Australia known to have produced domestic timber furniture.
Updated Oct. 11, 2018
White, Mary, b. 1912
White studied at the East Sydney Technical College, founded the Mary White School of Art (and design), worked as an automobile stylist GM Holden ca. ...
Updated Oct. 3, 2018