Alfred G. Healing b. 1 January 1868

  • Designer
Healing was initially a manufacturer of bicycles. The company diversified and designed and manufactured furniture, white goods, radios, televisions. They also employed professional industrial designers as early as 1953, perhaps earlier. They manufactured and sold cantilevered steel tubing chairs (after the 1927 Breuer design) as early as 1934.

Citations

  • Charles Furey (1 January 1986), '“The Commercial Effectiveness of Products resulting from Industrial Designing in Australia.”’.

  • anon. (1 January 2012), 'A.G. Healing’.

    http://www.museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/397658/auto-cycle-a-g-healing-circa-1948

  • “Behind the scenes in Industry.” The Argus, 26 Nov 1938, p.19.survey of Healing’s bicycle tubing factory, illustrated.

  • “Chromium Furniture by Healings.” adv. The Home, 1 August 1934, p.69 (illus. of cantilevered steel tubing chair).