Coulter was an architect who was designing furniture in a Moderne style in the mid-1930s from an office in Brighton-le-Sands. A cocktail bar designed by him for a Drummoyne NSW commission and manufactured by Beale and Company was illustrated in 1935. The architect trained at Sydney Technical College and by the 1950s, a Neville Coulter [the same?] was working as a design architect for the W.A. State Housing Commission.