Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Worsley, Edmond, b. 1926
Worsley studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, later becoming the principal of Stuart Furniture, Melbourne, a retailer of modernist furniture and furnishings. His work ...
Updated April 10, 2025
Duffecy, John Henry Canterbury, b. 1919
John Duffecy was a self-taught furniture designer and maker whose business, John Duffecy Furniture, operated from a showroom at 5-Ways, Glenmore Rd, Paddington, in the ...
Updated March 14, 2025
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Freedman, George Henry, b. 1936
Freedman trained as an architect. His interior design career began with Kahn & Jacobs Architects, a New York City firm. He later shifted to London, ...
Updated March 13, 2025
Wilson, William Hardy, b. 1881
Wilson was a Sydney-based interwar architect, artist, author, cartographer, orientalist and futurist. Furniture and furnishings by Wilson are known. He documents many historic houses and ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2025
Early & Sons, T.
In 1937, T. [Theophillus] Early & Sons registered as a furniture manufacturer, by 1949, T. Early & Sons we operating a factory in East Brisbane, ...
Updated Dec. 16, 2024
West, Mac , b. 1952
West was a furniture designer/maker initially working in the ACT with workshops in Queanbeyan. West attended the Canberra School of Art. In the 1980s, he ...
Updated Nov. 4, 2024
Peterkin, Graham
Peterkin is a furniture designer/maker initially working in the ACT with workshops in Queanbeyan. In the 1980s, he was in partnership with Mac West who ...
Updated Nov. 4, 2024
Leist, Frederick William, b. 1873
Lleist was an early 20th century Sydney and London painter, cartoonist, war artist and teacher. He was an inaugural council member of the Sydney Society ...
Updated Aug. 18, 2024
Messara, Diana Luxton
Messara is an interior designer, painter and educator who worked on interiors for the Shell Corporation, Melbourne and Caterpillar, Tullamarine. She later worked with Myer, ...
Updated June 17, 2024
Berkowitz and Sons
Berkowitz and Sons, Hawksburn, are described as a large Melbourne furniture manufacturer in 1937. The factory was begun by Samuel Berkowitz in 1913, manufacturing "fine ...
Updated June 2, 2024
Danish Deluxe
Danish DeLuxe was a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing company with licenses for selected Scandinavian designers. They also produced commercial and domestic furniture under their ...
Updated May 5, 2024
Robinson, Arthur J., b. 1921
Robinson trained as a graphic designer at East Sydney Technical College and from his studio in Sydney, later in Canberra, he worked for a diverse ...
Updated March 17, 2024
Hirst, Michael, b. 1917
Michael Hirst was a designer/manufacturer with a small factory in Hawthorn (2-3 workers), dates uncertain. He began designing with Clement Meadmore in 1955 and Hirst ...
Updated Feb. 25, 2024
Goldman, H. , b.
Goldman was a Melbourne cabinet maker and designer who worked exclusively in Australian timbers. His work varied from the ornate and finely carved (commemorative table ...
Updated Feb. 19, 2024
Branchflower
Branchflower, trading as H.A. Branchflower, was a Victorian specialist in moderne and period furniture design and production. In 1936, they were based in Guildford Lane, ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Newton and Grounds
Newton and Grounds were an architectural practice, Melbourne. They also designed furniture illustrated in “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Bilson, E.F.
E.F. Bilson recorded as a furniture design for Branchflower. “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia 16 November 1936, pps.77-88. [furniture ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Low, Stuart, b. 1896
Low was an interior designer and founder member Society of Interior Designers of Australia, His career began in 1928. He worked out of a "Salon" ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Grey, Molly
Grey was an interior designer active in Sydney (working for David Jones, 1937, and others) as well as a furniture designer for Ricketts and Thorp, ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
De Groot, Francis, b. 1888
De Groot was a quixotic Sydney character from his arrival from Ireland in 1910 until his return to Dublin in 1950. Best known for his ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Ward, Fred (Frederick C.), b. 1900
Ward was a designer who studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and began a design career in the 1920s, later working for Myer Emporium. ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Roberts, Hera, b. 1892
A flamboyantly stylish and well known designer working in the bold modernist style of the 1920s and 1930s. Very much part of the Sydney social ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Lipson, Samuel, b. 1901
Lipson was an architect and designer active in furniture and interior design during the 1940s and 1950s. Working alone, he designed domestic furniture such as ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2024
Headlam, Kristin, b. 1953
Melbourne based painter who uses photographic images in her artistic process.
Updated Dec. 9, 2023
Hyett, Bruce
Hyett was the principal of Wycombe Industries, a furniture manufacturing firm established in Geelong in 1950. His work was sold through Andersons, Prahan and appears ...
Updated Nov. 26, 2023