Joyce Brown

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Brown was an interior designer, manager of the "Contemporary Shop", Anthony Hordern Dept Store, Sydney. By 1960, Hordern had established an in-store "Design Centre" selling Fler and Grant Featherston furniture. Brown was also a broadcaster on design on 2BL ABC Radio and winner of 1952 Good Design Award for furniture design from Society of Interior Designers of Australia. She studied at the Sydney Technical College.

Citations

  • anon. (1 January 1953), '“Womens Interests on the Air Today.”’.

  • “Model Home Display.” The Land, 21 March 1947, p.39

  • “Big Scope for Women.” Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 1955, p.28 (interview with the designer about her career)

  • “Direct from 1960 Furniture Mart” Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May, 1960, p.6. Advertisement showing illus. of Fler, Featherston and Flo-Line furniture.

  • Mary Jane Seymour. “Australian Modern.” Australian Home Beautiful, February 1950, pp.18-19, 25, 67 (illus. of examples of Joyce Brown furniture)

  • 'A place to dine.’ Anthony Hordern & Sons advertisement illustrated Brown’s furniture. Art and Design 1, Ure Smith, 1949, p.67.