H. Goldman b.

Also known as Harry Goldman, H. Goldman Manufacturing Company, South Yarra, Victoria
  • Designer (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
Goldman was a Melbourne cabinet maker and designer who worked exclusively in Australian timbers. His work varied from the ornate and finely carved (commemorative table for the Australian War Memorial) to the modern (furniture for the Marion and Walter Burley Griffin's Cafe Australia, Melbourne). He sold work in England, Europe, and America and exhibited in Paris.

Citations

  • Terence Lane. One Hundred Modern Chairs. Natl Gallery of Victoria, 1974

  • “Furniture Designer.” News item on Goldman’s proposed retirement. The Argus, 8 October 1937, p.6

  • “Manufacture of Furniture.” Harry Goldman obituary, The Age, 13 February 1937, p.25.

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206198322?searchTerm=%22harry%20goldman%22&searchLimits=l-state=Victoria|||l-australian=y

  • Inlaid table presented to Mr H D McIntosh by the Australian Victoria Cross recipients from First World War [illustrated]

    https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C134174

  • “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia 16 November 1936, pps.77-88. [furniture by S. Lipson, Molly Grey/Ricketts and Thorp, Fred Ward, F.E. de Groot, Hera Roberts, Stuart-Low Furniture Studio, H. Goldman P/L, Mewton and Grounds, E.F. Bilson/Branchflower]