Bea Taplin

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Taplin was an interior designer and textile designer working from a studio in Toorak Road, South Yarra, later "Colour Cottage", Murphy Street, South Yarra. Her printed textiles were produced under the name Falkiner Fabrics and references suggest the fabrics were screen-prints. There are also references to her prints drawing on Australian flora and fauna in the 1950s.
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Citations

  • “A touch of gaiety in decoration.” Newcastle Morning Herald, 21 October 1949, p.6 (Mural, illustrated)

  • “Women’s News.” column identifying studio location and family connection with Falkiners.

  • Bryce Wilson interview with Michael Bogle, 2010, 2014, identifies Taplin’s practice. SIDA Archives.

  • “Wallpaper Notions.” Reference to Taplin’s textiles and Falkiner Fabrics. Australian Womens Weekly. 14 March 1956, p.41

  • “Fabric designs from the bush.” Australian Womens Weekly 26 November 1958, p.40

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