Donald Shaw

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Shaw was an interior designer and founder of the Colour Studio, Taubman's Colour Service (1952). The colour studio, located in Asbestos House, 65 York St, Sydney, included a "consultation studio of Applied Chromatics". A graduate of the East Sydney Technical College, he worked with Arthur Sanderson, London and was an original member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia.
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exhibited at
Exhibition. Society of Interior Designers, Woollahra Arts Centre, 1953
Date
1 September 1953 - 16 September 1953
Place
Woollahra Arts Centre, Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
Description

Exhibition. Society of Interior Designers, Woollahra Arts Centre, 1953 (catalogue, unpaginated). This was the Society of Interior Designers of Australia’s first exhibition. It included work by Hilda Abbott, George Korody, Cecily Adams, Bruce Tebbutt, Joyce Tebbutt, Marion Best, Donald Shaw, Ruth Sloane, Stuart Low and interior design student members from East Sydney Technical College: Barbara Hansen (architecture student, Sydney Univ), Lois Dawson (Anthony Horderns), Vivienne Chaffer (colour consultant Sterling Paints) , Yvonne Bush (Dykes-Johnston) and Jill Townsend.

profile of each exhibitor included in catalogue. Her studio is recorded as 153 Queen St, Woollahra

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References [<ExternalResource: "Colour Influence on Health and Happiness." (est.Colour Studio) The Land, 7 March 1952, p.28>, <ExternalResource: "Hotel to be showplace." (Newport Hotel), Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October, 1953, p.7>, <ExternalResource: "Trainees design new film theatre." (Sydney Technical College) Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, Qld, 26 August 1947, p.3>, <ExternalResource: "Gallery of Colour Today." Building, Lighting, Engineering, 26 April 1955, pp.33-39. Illustrations of Shaw's interiors work for Taubmans>] [<ExternalResource: "Colour Influence on Health and Happiness." (est.Colour Studio) The Land, 7 March 1952, p.28>, <ExternalResource: "Hotel to be showplace." (Newport Hotel), Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October, 1953, p.7>, <ExternalResource: "Trainees design new film theatre." (Sydney Technical College) Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, Qld, 26 August 1947, p.3>]