BECO

Also known as Brown Evans and Co (BECO), BECO Lighting Pty Ltd
  • Maker
A Victorian lighting manufacturer, based in Carlton founded by Donald C. Brown in equal partnership with David Evans and Ivor Evans under the brand name BECO (1947). Brown bought out the Evans brothers in 1960, later working as BECO Lighting Pty Ltd as the sole Managing Director.

Citations

  • Kirsty Grant. Mid-Century Modern [exhibition catalogue], Natl Gallery of Victoria, 2014.

  • All information here is from the company archives, provided by Guy Brown, the son of Donald C Brown. Interview conducted by Geoffrey Clarke on Tuesday 14th June, 2016. at Guy Brown’s Residence, in Beaumaris, Melbourne.