Grant Featherston b. c.1922

Also known as Featherston Contract Furniture , Featherston Contract Interiors (FCI)
  • Designer (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker),
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Designer (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
Featherston was an Industrial design and design industry leader. Recognised for his furniture and exhibition work in partnership with Mary Featherston, he helped to form the Society of Designers for Industry (now the Design Institute of Australia) in Melbourne in 1948.
Tags: Furniture, Lighting, interior design, photographer
exhibited at
Featherston Chairs
Date
1988
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Melbourne Olympics Arts Festival
Date
1956
Type
Festival
exhibited at
1956 Olympic Arts Festival
Date
1956
Place
Melbourne, Vic
Description

Olympic Arts Festival 1956 – Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad.
Architecture & sculpture – Uni of Melb. Painting & Drawing – NGV, Literature – Melb Public Library. Graphics, Ind Design, Ceramics – Royal Melb Tech College, Aboriginal art – National Museum.

- Neville Bunning, Mollie Douglas, Dyson Studio Pottery, Ivan Englund, Pamela Hallandal, Harold Hughan, Graham Jones, Eileen Keys, John A. Barnard Knight, Henri Le Grand, Allan Lowe, Marguerite Mahood, Martin Boyd, Ivan McMeekin, Klytie Pate, Reg Preston, Peter Rushforth, Edward Shaw, Dorothy Sutherland, Jeffery Wilkinson

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Melbourne Olympics 1956, Industrial DesignCraft, Textile, Aboriginal Art, Sculpture, Olympic Arts Festival 1956, Melbourne’s Cultural Olympiad