Neville Gruzman b. 1925

  • Architect (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
Neville Gruzman was one of Sydney's significant independent architects from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was inspired by traditional Japanese architecture and landscape design, and the organic design principles of American modernist Frank Lloyd Wright.
associate of
Eric Smith
1919
Artist (Painter)
Smith executed mosaics and sculptural reliefs for some of Gruzman's commissions, notably the Purnell Motors Showroom (1955) and the doors and mosaic work for the South Head Synagogue, Rose Bay (1957) and the Gregory & Carr Funeral Chapel (1968) illustrated in the Gruzman monograph.
associate of
Paul Ernst Kafka
1907
Maker (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
Kafka may have executed Gruzman's designs
associate of
Ray Siede
Designer
design work by Seide is in the Gruzman papers, State Library of NSW
associate of
Ruth Harvey Lucas
1925
Architect
employee of
Margaret Jaye
1925
Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Gruzman worked for Jaye in 1944. He writes about his experience in an autobiographical sketch of his life.
associate of
Bill Lucas
1925
Architect (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker)
associate of
A.F. Reidl
1925
Designer