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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 ...
Peddle, James, b. 1862
Peddle was one of the principals of the firm later known as Peddle Thorp and Walker (PTW). His early work in Australia was in interior ...
Coleman, Alfred Benjamin, b. 1885
Alfred Benjamin Coleman (1885-1948) was a Victorian painter of landscapes and seascapes, active also in local art societies. He began his working life in the ...
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" ...
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 ...
Fooks, Ernest, b. 1906
Progressive European-trained emigre architect who made important contributions to architectural and cultural life of Melbourne during and after World War II. Fooks' practice also encompassed ...
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 ...
Hearn Bros. and Stead
Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rodeck, Ernest, b. 1919
Rodeck was a trained engineer who collaborated with Fred Ward to found FLER furniture.
Stapleton, Russell Kenneth, b. 1919
Stapleton was a principal of Standis Furniture Pty Ltd, North Richmond, Victoria. Standis produced period reproductions as well as a line of Danish Modern furniture ...
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 ...
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 ...
J. McCain Furniture
Founded by James McCain in 1926. The company also produced furniture in the 1950s and 1960s under the name JAYMAC.
Easden, Gerald, b. 1934
Easden was a furniture and interior designer working across the industry in the UK, Victoria and Canberra. He had extensive experience designing furniture and interiors ...
Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
Ingham, George, b. 1940
Ingham was a furniture designer and maker with extensive training in England. He combined teaching, designing and making in the UK before taking a position ...
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 ...
Smith, John, b. 1948
Smith was a furniture designer who came to Australia in 1970 to take up a position with the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. He later ...