Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Paramor, Wendy, b. 1938
Wendy Paramor was the only woman painter and sculptor to flourish in the hard edge colour field abstractionist Central Street. She died young, of cancer, ...
Updated Sept. 24, 2018
Maseyk Bros.
Maseyk Bros. were a furniture design and manufacturing firm located in Hurlstone Park, NSW. They produced 'Truline Modular Unit Furniture' and published a booklet of ...
Updated Sept. 17, 2018
Featherston, Mary, b. 1943
Mary Featherston studied at RMIT, interior design, then worked as a designer with architects Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchell, Melbourne, later forming a design partnership with ...
Updated Sept. 17, 2018
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Nielsen, Carl, b. 1930
Industrial designer and design educator. He studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and established a private practice as Carl Nielsen Design ca.1961, which ...
Updated Sept. 3, 2018
Merlin Chrome
Merlin Chrome were furniture manufacturers exhibiting with the NSW Furniture Guild Exhibition, Sydney 1958. Photographs illustrate domestic tubular metal furniture.
Updated June 22, 2018
P. W. Read Ltd
P. W. Read Ltd were furniture manufacturers exhibiting with NSW Furniture Guild Exhibitions, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and commercial tubular metal furniture. The firm was ...
Updated June 22, 2018
Atel Furniture Pty Ltd
Atel Furniture Pty Ltd were Bathurst based furniture manufacturers exhibiting with NSW Furniture Guild Exhibitions, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and commercial furniture in timber and ...
Updated June 22, 2018
Sturdy Furniture
Sturdy Furniture merged with FRAMAC furniture (1957-2000). Date of merger uncertain.
Updated June 22, 2018
Sturdy Components
20th c. merger with FRAMAC furniture, date uncertain.
Updated June 22, 2018
Framac Pty Ltd
Framac Pty Ltd (Fracom Pty Ltd) were furniture manufacturers in Granville, exhibiting with NSW Furniture Guild Exhibitions, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and commercial tubular metal ...
Updated June 22, 2018
Cornish Interiors
Cornish Interiors were domestic and commercial furniture manufacturers exhibiting with a WA Furniture Exhibition,1966 . Photographs illustrate commercial tubular metal and wood constructed furniture.
Updated June 22, 2018
SupaFurn
SupaFurn were furniture manufacturers exhibiting with a WA Furniture Exhibition, Sydney. Photographs illustrate domestic and outdoor tubular metal and wood furniture.
Updated June 22, 2018
West, Laurence, b. 1914
West was a writer, lecturer & retailer of modernist designer furniture in Brisbane. He frequently wrote on furniture design & at one point in his ...
Updated March 19, 2018
Comdec
Comdec was a Prahan, Victoria commercial interior design firm. In 1967, they were part of the BALM Group. They distributed local and imported interior furnishing ...
Updated Dec. 4, 2017
Piper's Truline (furniture)
Piper's Truline furniture designed and manufactured timber furniture in Ulverstone, Tasmania, largely in regional timbers. The firm was founded in 1919 and has won several ...
Updated Dec. 4, 2017
Orlay, Susan, b. 1913
Orlay "trained in furniture design and graphic arts at the Schools of Applied Art in Budapest, Stuttgart and Vienna". While studying, she worked as a ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2017
Kalmar, Steven, b. 1909
Kalmar was an interior designer and a furniture designer. He established Kalmar Interiors, Sydney in 1949 and was an inaugural member of the Society of ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2017
Buhrich, Hugh, b. 1911
Hugh Buhrich is best-known as the architect (with his wife Eva) of some exceptional modern brick and timber houses in Sydney, including two built for ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2017
Buhrich, Eva, b. 1915
Buhrich studied architecture at the Polytechnic University, Berlin with Hans Poelzig, moving to Zurich’s Technical University, then England by 1938, later to Australia in 1939. ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2017
Soos, Imre
Imre Soos and his brother Gyula were designers working in the field of coffee shops and restaurants. Also described as "The Soos Brothers." Works by ...
Updated Nov. 19, 2017
Segaert, Elsie
Segaert was the founder of Artes Studios in 1945. It formally opened at her Darling Point flat on 21 November 1945 with George Korody in ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2017
Gerstl, Josef , b. 1871
Upholsterer, retailer who ran three furniture stores in Vienna's 7th district. Son Michael worked with him at Mobel Haus Josef Gerstl as a furniture designer ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2017
Gerstl, Michael, b. 1908
Michael Gerstl was a Viennese designer who emigrated to Australia in 1947 to set up Gerstl, a cabinetmaking business with many European immigrant clients. Commissions ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2017
Gerstl, Heinz , b. 1937
Fourth generation Viennese cabinetmaker. Worked with his father at the family furniture factory from a young age, joining full time aged 17. Active role in ...
Updated Nov. 18, 2017
Hayson Furniture Manufacturing Company
Hayson Furniture operated with workshops in South Melbourne, Carlton and West Footscray before 1949. Sold through travelling representatives in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. They began ...
Updated Oct. 12, 2017