Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Dykes, Edward
Dykes was an interior designer, trained at East Sydney Technical College and registered as an architect in 1958. He was a founder-member and President, Society ...
Updated March 15, 2016
Loder and Dunphy
An architectural practice formed by Milo Dunphy and Bruce Loder in 1957. They executed a number of Protestant churches using innovative concrete technology including precast ...
Updated March 14, 2016
Ellis, Richard
Ellis is a furniture designer and maker working from Launceston, Tasmania as Richard Ellis Furniture Design & Upholstery. The designer/maker often works with traditional furniture ...
Updated Feb. 27, 2016
Black, Henry
Black is a designer/maker who apprenticed in Patternmaking at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard, later studying at the Canberra School of Art . He preferred ...
Updated Feb. 19, 2016
McKay, Ian, b. 1932
Ian McKay was a notable architect in Sydney during the 1960s, including a brief partnership with Philip Cox; he also built significant residences around the ...
Updated Feb. 5, 2016
Kristensen, Leif, b. 1935
Updated Feb. 5, 2016
Badger, Langdon, b. 1931
Badger is an interior designer and industrial designer who established Langdon Badger Furnishings, Adelaide, South Australia. He entered private practice in 1953, officially retired ca. ...
Updated Feb. 2, 2016
Aiston, Emma
Aiston is one of the principals of Daniel Emma, a South Australia-based design studio working across a range of media and objects including furniture, lighting, ...
Updated Feb. 1, 2016
To, Daniel
Daniel To is one of the principals of Daniel Emma, a South Australia-based design studio working across a range of media and objects including furniture, ...
Updated Feb. 1, 2016
Davenport, David
Davenport was a principal of Davenport and Associates, later forming Davenport Campbell after 1977. He was a founder member of the Industrial Design Institute of ...
Updated Jan. 4, 2016
Forbes, Max
Forbes is identified as a designer for Rodriquez Fabrics, Melbourne, illustrated in Colin Barrie, Design, Arts in Australia series, Longmans, 1962. His package design work ...
Updated Jan. 3, 2016
Baldwinson, Arthur N., b. 1908
Baldwinson was a regional modernist architect. He was a founder member of Modern Architecture Research Society (MARS), Sydney, Australia’s first industrial design organization, the “Design ...
Updated Dec. 25, 2015
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Functional Products Pty Ltd
Functional Products was a manufacturing company based in St Peters, a suburb of Sydney NSW. The Managing Director, Terry Palmerston, commissioned Douglas Snelling to design ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2015
Dulmison
Dulmison designed and distributed a steel-framed chair and relating seating elements (steel legs) in the mid-1950s drawing on the design of Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy's 'butterfly chair'. ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2015
Brunswick Furniture Pty Ltd
Brunswick Furniture Pty Ltd is described as a large Melbourne furniture manufacturer in 1937.
Updated Dec. 12, 2015
Stapleton and Lewis, Pty Ltd
Stapleton and Lewis are described as a large Melbourne furniture manufacturer based in Richmond in 1937.
Updated Dec. 12, 2015
R. Brown Manufacturing Co Pty Ltd
R. Brown is described as a "large furniture manufacturing business", East Brunswick, Melbourne in 1937.
Updated Dec. 12, 2015
H. Eastgate Pty Ltd
H. Eastgate Pty Ltd was a West Brunswick, Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm. They won the Furniture Manufacturers Design Competition in 1952. The firm ...
Updated Dec. 12, 2015
Blumann, Elise, b. 1897
A student at the Berlin Academy of Art under German Impressionist Max Liebermann, Blumann fled Nazi Germany in 1938, she and her husband settling in ...
Updated Dec. 9, 2015
Quarry, Neville, b. 1933
Neville Quarry was Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney (formerly NSW Institute ...
Updated Nov. 24, 2015
Dunphy, Myles, b. 1891
Myles Dunphy (1891-1985) was a lecturer in building construction and history at Sydney Technical College 1921-1970s. He encouraged students to develop a love of the ...
Updated Nov. 24, 2015
Dunphy, Milo, b. 1921
Milo Dunphy was an architect in Sydney and a pioneer of Sydney's nature conservation movement. During the 1960s he chaired the RAIA NSW Environment Committee ...
Updated Nov. 24, 2015
Sodersten, Emil, b. 1899
Emil Sodersten was one of Sydney's two leading architects of Art Deco buildings during the 1930s – noted especially for apartment buildings around Elizabeth Bay. ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
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Snelling, Douglas Burrage, b. 1916
Snelling created more than 70 residential and commercial buildings in Sydney and Noumea. He was born in England, moved to New Zealand (1924), practised design ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015
Seidler, Harry, b. 1923
Harry Seidler (1923-2006) was Australia's most significant and influential modernist architect. Born in Vienna and educated in Britain, Canada, the United States and Brazil, he ...
Updated Nov. 23, 2015