Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Snelling, Douglas Burrage, b. 1916
Snelling created more than 70 residential and commercial buildings in Sydney and Noumea. He was born in England, moved to New Zealand (1924), practised design ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Seidler, Harry, b. 1923
Harry Seidler (1923-2006) was Australia's most significant and influential modernist architect. Born in Vienna and educated in Britain, Canada, the United States and Brazil, he ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Oser, Hans Peter (H.P.), b. 1913
Hans Peter Oser was a Vienna-educated architect who came to Australia in 1938 and practised after World War II as H.P. Oser, then in partnership ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Muller, Peter, b. 1927
Peter Muller (b. 1927, Adelaide) was one of Australia's most significant architects during the 1950s and 1960s, then created several historically significant hotels and resorts ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Kaad, Peter, b. 1898
Kaad was an architect and designer of furniture and interior design. He trained at Sydney Technical College and worked for Ross and Rowe on graduation. ...
Updated Nov. 20, 2015
Simpson, D.H.
Simpson was the Design Director, Tru-line, Ulverstone, Tasmania, a manufacturer of contract furniture sold through the interior design firm Comdec, 75 High St, Prahran, Victoria.
Updated Nov. 19, 2015
Bell, Guilford, b. 1912
Updated Nov. 16, 2015
Cox, Philip, b. 1939
Updated Nov. 16, 2015
Bunning, Walter, b. 1912
Bunning is a modernist architect and co-founder of the Sydney MARS (Modern Architecture Research Society) and their first president. He was also active in the ...
Updated Nov. 16, 2015
Bennett, Rubery, b. 1893
William Rubery Bennett was an artist and art gallery owner from Brisbane who lived and worked in Sydney for much of his career.
Updated Oct. 21, 2015
Irving, Philip Edward, b. 1903
Irving was a designer specialising in motorcycles after study at Melbourne Technical College. He was resident in Britain working on Vincent and Veloce motorcycles and ...
Updated Sept. 18, 2015
Chiswell Furniture
A furniture design and manufacturing firm with offices in Guildford NSW. Their timber furniture range covers Australian modernist styles to abbreviated period reproduction styles. Chiswell ...
Updated Sept. 4, 2015
Coulson, Oswald Noel, b. 1905
Coulson was a Melbourne interior designer and architect initially working with I.G. Anderson, later establishing an independent practice in the 1950s. He designed interiors and ...
Updated Aug. 26, 2015
Beard Watson
Beard Watson was a prominent Sydney furniture maker and retailer with origins in the 19th century. Designing and making contemporary (i.e. modern) and period furniture ...
Updated Aug. 13, 2015
Masterpiece Furniture (Beard Watson & Co.)
Masterpiece Furniture was a brand name developed by Sydney retailer Beard Watson and manufactured in their factory. "Masterpiece" appears to be a line based on ...
Updated Aug. 13, 2015
Rennie-Gwaybilla, Reko, b. 1974
Kamilaroi stencil artist based in Melbourne who won the Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award of the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
Updated Aug. 9, 2015
Perking, Phillip
Updated July 30, 2015
Marks, Stella, b. 1887
Stella Marks, portrait miniaturist. Born Melbourne 1887; studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School; exhibited 1913 with the West Australian Society of Arts. Lived in ...
Updated July 27, 2015
Bannigan, Philip
Updated July 25, 2015
A new generation 1983-1988: The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases

by Boyd, Lynne, Bramley-Moore, Mostyn, Bray, Dallas, Brown, Leonard, Button, Loris, Carsley, Gary, Cattapan, Jon, Clark, Tony, Clouston, Alison, Cooley, Peter, Dark, Jann, Eager, Helen, Ferguson, Peter, Foubister, John, Frank, Dale, Friend, Ian, Fuller, Helen, Furlonger, Joe, Garofano, Clinton, Halpern, Deborah, Harris, Brent, Hawkes, Gay, Hearman, Louise, Hollie, , Howard, Melanie, Hunter, Philip, Jubelin, Narelle, LeWitt, Vivienne Shark, Lee, Lindy, Letcher, Joan, MacDonald, Fiona, Matwiejew, Magda, Murray, Jan, Nelson, Jan, Nickolls, Trevor, Noble, Jill, Norrie, Susan, Oliver, Bronwyn, Piggott, Rosslynd, Platten, Anna, Quinn, Loretta, Rankine, Susan, Roberts, Carole, Sanders, Christopher, Sinn, Maryrose, Weedon, Lani.

Updated July 21, 2015
Hunter, Philip, b. 1958
A modernist landscape painter born in the Wimmera in 1958.
Updated July 21, 2015
Chris Sanders Peter Cooley

by Cooley, Peter, Sanders, Christopher.

Chris Sanders / Peter Cooley: ceramics from Philip Morris Collection; Peter Cooley: gouaches from ceramics

Updated July 21, 2015
Ratner, Saul, b. 1900
Saul Ratner worked as a designer and maker for J. Ratner & Co., founded by Joseph Ratner in 1911 in Camden St, Newtown, a suburb ...
Updated July 20, 2015
J. Ratner & Co.
J. Ratner & Co. was founded by Joseph Ratner in 1911 in Camden St, Newtown, a suburb of Sydney. Two sons Saul (1900-1980) and Harry ...
Updated July 20, 2015
Lucas-Gee Associates
A design firm including Bill Lucas and a yet-unidentified other [Gee], producing furniture. Their work was commissioned for the St Michael's Convent School Kindergarten (1953) ...
Updated June 21, 2015