John Hoe

  • Maker (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
John Hoe was a prominent 20th century Sydney furniture designer and maker working from factory buildings in Waterloo. Hoe was a leader against the furniture manufacturing interests's attacks on Australasian (mostly Chinese) furniture makers and a regular exhibitor with the NSW Furniture Guild with photographs in the SLNSW.

Citations

  • Photographs of John Hoe’s work. Australian Photographic Agency (APA) Collection : Sydney people, places and events, 1953-1987 Subjects

    http://www.acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=71893

  • “Profits.” Description of legal action again Marcus Clarke, retailer, reselling John Hoe furniture. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 1921, p.9.

  • “Furniture Factory Fire.” Evening News, 14 July 1921, p.2 (desc. of factory, workers, etc)

  • John Hoe. “The Chinese Question.” Letter to the editor on Chinese furniture trade. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1908, p.16

  • Peter Gibson,Voices of Sydney’s Chinese Furniture Factory Workers, 1890–1920, Labour History, no. 112 (May 2017): 99–117.