Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Robinson, Arthur J., b. 1921
Robinson trained as a graphic designer at East Sydney Technical College and from his studio in Sydney, later in Canberra, he worked for a diverse ...
Updated March 17, 2024
Hirst, Michael, b. 1917
Michael Hirst was a designer/manufacturer with a small factory in Hawthorn (2-3 workers), dates uncertain. He began designing with Clement Meadmore in 1955 and Hirst ...
Updated Feb. 25, 2024
Goldman, H. , b.
Goldman was a Melbourne cabinet maker and designer who worked exclusively in Australian timbers. His work varied from the ornate and finely carved (commemorative table ...
Updated Feb. 19, 2024
Branchflower
Branchflower, trading as H.A. Branchflower, was a Victorian specialist in moderne and period furniture design and production. In 1936, they were based in Guildford Lane, ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Newton and Grounds
Newton and Grounds were an architectural practice, Melbourne. They also designed furniture illustrated in “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Bilson, E.F.
E.F. Bilson recorded as a furniture design for Branchflower. “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia 16 November 1936, pps.77-88. [furniture ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Low, Stuart, b. 1896
Low was an interior designer and founder member Society of Interior Designers of Australia, His career began in 1928. He worked out of a "Salon" ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Grey, Molly
Grey was an interior designer active in Sydney (working for David Jones, 1937, and others) as well as a furniture designer for Ricketts and Thorp, ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
De Groot, Francis, b. 1888
De Groot was a quixotic Sydney character from his arrival from Ireland in 1910 until his return to Dublin in 1950. Best known for his ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Ward, Fred (Frederick C.), b. 1900
Ward was a designer who studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and began a design career in the 1920s, later working for Myer Emporium. ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Roberts, Hera, b. 1892
A flamboyantly stylish and well known designer working in the bold modernist style of the 1920s and 1930s. Very much part of the Sydney social ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Lipson, Samuel, b. 1901
Lipson was an architect and designer active in furniture and interior design during the 1940s and 1950s. Working alone, he designed domestic furniture such as ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Headlam, Kristin, b. 1953
Melbourne based painter who uses photographic images in her artistic process.
Updated Dec. 9, 2023
Hyett, Bruce
Hyett was the principal of Wycombe Industries, a furniture manufacturing firm established in Geelong in 1950. His work was sold through Andersons, Prahan and appears ...
Updated Nov. 26, 2023
Putnam, Roger, b. 1940
Putnam first joined the Design Institute of Australia (IDCA) in 1972 and was awarded a DIA Fellowship in the early 2000s. He designed furniture for ...
Updated Nov. 8, 2023
James, R. Haughton ("Jimmy"), b. 1906
R. Haughton ["Jimmy"] James's first local practice, the Design Centre, Sydney, was with Geoff and Dahl Collings. His first known designs in Sydney were radio ...
Updated Nov. 3, 2023
Korody, George, b.
George Korody was a founding member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia and a vice-president in 1952. Describing himself as a former professor ...
Updated Sept. 22, 2023
Kerry, Paula, b. 1923
Kerry was an associate of Bill Onus, principal of Aboriginal Enterprises. Her work with Onus began in the late 1940 and she became one of ...
Updated Sept. 19, 2023
Leist, Frederick William, b. 1873
Lleist was an early 20th century Sydney and London painter, cartoonist, war artist and teacher. He was an inaugural council member of the Sydney Society ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Russell, John Peter, b. 1858
Painter John Peter Russell spent three decades living and working in Europe where Vincent Van Gogh was a fellow student in Paris. With his extensive ...
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
Streeton, Arthur, b. 1867
A member of the Heidelberg School and part of the famous '9 x 5' Impressions Exhibition in Melbourne, Arthur Streeton spent a number of years ...
Updated Aug. 31, 2023
Caon, David, b. 1977
Caon is an industrial designer who has worked in Milan with Mondadori (publishers) and George Sowden. In 2003, he began working with Marc Newson in ...
Updated Aug. 7, 2023
Duffecy, John Henry Canterbury, b. 1919
John Duffecy was a self-taught furniture designer and maker whose business, John Duffecy Furniture, operated from a showroom at 5-Ways, Glenmore Rd, Paddington, in the ...
Updated Aug. 3, 2023
Jelinek, Alex, b. 1925
Alex Jelinek was a Czech-born architect and designer best known for the 1957 Benjamin House in Canberra, considered a significant contribution to experimental modernism in ...
Updated June 17, 2023
Ebenston, Joshua, b. 1835
Joshua Ebenston was a skilled cabinet-maker in colonial Brisbane. However, because furniture from his workshop was unmarked we know of the quality of his work ...
Updated June 12, 2023