BECO

Also known as Brown Evans and Co (BECO), BECO Lighting Pty Ltd
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A Victorian lighting manufacturer, based in Carlton founded by Donald C. Brown in equal partnership with David Evans and Ivor Evans under the brand name BECO (1947). Brown bought out the Evans brothers in 1960, later working as BECO Lighting Pty Ltd as the sole Managing Director.
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The House of Tomorrow
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The House of Tomorrow, designed by Robin Boyd, for the Modern Home Exhibition, 20th October to the 1st November, 1949, at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne used BECO lighting. Geoffrey Serle’s “Robin Boyd – A life” with photographs by Wolfgang Sievers, observes “Brown Evans & Co, light fittings, mainly Parabolic Reflectors, almost stole the scene.” (p.96).

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