Edward Dykes

Also known as Ed Dykes
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Dykes was an interior designer, trained at East Sydney Technical College and registered as an architect in 1958. He was a founder-member and President, Society of Interior Designers of Australia, 1967-1968. Dykes and Don Johnston designed the original interiors of Sydney's QANTAS building by Rudder Littlemore and Rudder. He also worked with Peddle Thorp and Walker and became a principal of Edmund Dykes, Coward and Partners.

Citations

  • anon (1969), 'Office Planning’, illustrated feature on office planning, Design Australia, 6:1969, pps.47-48.

  • Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame citation

    http://www.dia.org.au/index.cfm?id=179

  • “Wormald Bros Steelbilt showroom by Edmund [?] J. Dykes. Architecture and Arts, June 1957, pp.34-35

  • Timbrock advertisement. Constructional Review. June 1954, p.10. Illustration of furniture designed by Dykes and Johnson

  • “Shape and New Form.” Australian House and Garden, October 1949, pp.48-49. (illust. of ceramics