Lester Bunbury

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Bunbury is a designer active in the mid-20th century. In the late 1940s, he was described as a furniture designer and lecturing to professional audiences on industrial design. He was the interior designer for the Atomic Age exhibition, Sydney (1947) and the chief designer of the Australian Fashion Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Bldg (1950). He designed the interior of the Victorian Arbitration Court Melbourne, ca.1958.
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Citations

  • “Industrial Design.” The Argus, 26 August 1947. (Bunbury lecture)

  • “FASHION FAIR IN MELBOURNE NEXT YEAR .” The Mercury, Hobart, 25 May 1949. (Bunbury appointed exhibition designer)

  • “The Herald Atomic Age and Industrial Exhibition.” January-February 1948 (catalogue of exhibition), see also Sydney and Brisbane exhibitions.

  • Kirsty Grant, et al. Mid-Century Modern. Australian Furniture Design. Natl Gallery of Victoria, 2014.

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