George Korody b.

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
George Korody was a founding member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia and a vice-president in 1952. Describing himself as a former professor of architecture at Budapest University and using the title of Doctor, he worked as an interior designer and furniture designer active after 1944, joining a Sydney studio (Artes) in 1947 that had been established by Elsie Segaert in 1945. Artes changed hands in 1979.

Citations

  • George Korody (1 January 1949), '“Design for Happiness”’.

  • anon (1 January 1947), 'Party to Mark Studio Christening’.

  • anon (1 January 1948), 'Industrial Art in Australia’.

  • “Spirit of France.” Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 1944 provides a summary of Korody’s European career.

  • Jerome Maver, “Design for Happiness. George Korody and Artes Studios” in Rebecca Hawcroft, ed. The Other Moderns, UNSW Press, 2017 , pp.122-144 [illust.]