Bea Taplin b. 1 January 1911

Also known as Bee Taplin
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Taplin was an interior designer and textile designer working from a studio in Toorak Road, South Yarra, later "Colour Cottage", Murphy Street, South Yarra. Her printed textiles were produced under the name Falkiner Fabrics and references suggest the fabrics were screen-prints. There are also references to her prints drawing on Australian flora and fauna in the 1950s.
Tags: textile design

Citations

  • “A touch of gaiety in decoration.” Newcastle Morning Herald, 21 October 1949, p.6 (Mural, illustrated)

  • “Women’s News.” column identifying studio location and family connection with Falkiners.

  • Bryce Wilson interview with Michael Bogle, 2010, 2014, identifies Taplin’s practice. SIDA Archives.

  • “Wallpaper Notions.” Reference to Taplin’s textiles and Falkiner Fabrics. Australian Womens Weekly. 14 March 1956, p.41

  • “Fabric designs from the bush.” Australian Womens Weekly 26 November 1958, p.40

  • Summary of practice given in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne Univ. Press, 2021, 221 pages, illustrated, p.69