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Brown, Joyce

Brown was an interior designer, manager of the "Contemporary Shop", Anthony Hordern Dept Store, Sydney. By 1960, Hordern had established an in-store "Design Centre" selling ...

Updated June 8, 2023

Coleman, Alfred Benjamin, b. 1885

Alfred Benjamin Coleman (1885-1948) was a Victorian painter of landscapes and seascapes, active also in local art societies. He began his working life in the ...

Updated May 17, 2023

'Clarke and Flood and Hearn - The Ludlow all-slug, system'

by Flood, Noel, Hearn, Ray.

'Clarke and Flood and Hearn - The Ludlow all-slug, system' Contemporary Art Society of Victoria and Joan Gough Gallery, South Yarra, Melbourne. Sculptural Ceramics by ...

Updated May 12, 2023

Rosenstengel, Edmund, b. 1887

Rosenstengel is the principal of Rosenstengel Brisbane, a designer and maker of domestic furniture. He began his career at Rosenstengel & Kleimeyer, Toowoomba QLD, later ...

Updated May 5, 2023

Lyon, Cottier & Co.

Lyon, Cottier & Co. began in Sydney in 1873 with premises in Pitt Street. The company specialized in painted schemes & glass, but dealt in ...

Updated May 5, 2023

Ostoja-Kotkowski, Stanislaus, b. 1922

Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski, abstract expressionist painter, theatre set designer, photographer, experimental film producer and light and sound artist was born in Golub, Poland in 1922 ...

Updated April 26, 2023

Buzacotts & Company Ltd

Buzacotts (Qld) Ltd designed & manufactured chrome steel tube furniture under the brand "Steeluxe". (NB: Design historian Virginia Wright UTS) maintains Steeluxe furniture was not ...

Updated March 22, 2023

Kral, George, b. 1929

Kral was a designer initially active in Melbourne where he was a founder member of the Gallery A commercial design team. He carried out exhibition ...

Updated Dec. 1, 2022

Amor, Rick, b. 1948

Contemporary Melbourne painter, printmaker and political cartoonist. In 1999 the Australian War Memorial appointed Amor as an official war artist, along with Archibald Prize-winning painter ...

Updated Nov. 20, 2022

Messara, Diana Luxton

Messara is an interior design and artist who worked on interiors for the Shell Corporation, Melbourne and Caterpillar, Tullamarine. She later worked with Myer, Melbourne ...

Updated Oct. 19, 2022

NAMCO

NAMCO (National Art Metal Company P/L) is a designer and manufacturer of metal furniture and housewares. Their advertisements appeared frequently in Australian House and Garden ...

Updated Oct. 3, 2022

Lee, Gary Philip, b. 1952

Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist who has worked as a designer in a range of media, a curator and now works primarily as a ...

Updated Oct. 1, 2022

Ingeborg, Karen

Ingeborg is described as a Sydney-based designer producing kit furniture in her "Sweden-craft" range in The Australian Dream, Design of the Fifties, Judith O'Callaghan, ed. ...

Updated Aug. 20, 2022

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 Aug. 17, 2022

Hutchinson, Max, b. 1925

Max Hutchinson was a founding member of the Society of Designers for Industry in Australia. In 1959, he opened Gallery A, Melbourne. In 1963, he ...

Updated Aug. 1, 2022

Howard, Ian, b. 1923

Howard is the founder of Aristoc, a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm (1946-1968). Aristoc produced furniture for Grant Featherstone, Fred Lowen, Ernst Rodeck, William ...

Updated May 27, 2022

Aristoc Industries Pty Ltd

Aristoc Industries was a Victorian company founded by Ian Howard in 1946. Grant Featherstone acted as design director at some point (tenure uncertain but active ...

Updated May 27, 2022

Catt, Roy, b.

Catt was a principal of the furniture manufacturing firm Charles Catt & Son furniture designers and manufacturers, 20 Gympie Way, Willetton WA. [See entry for ...

Updated May 19, 2022

Archibald, Norman , b. 1937

Archibald is a furniture designer active ca.1973 developing furniture for Nore Furniture Pty Ltd, Bayswater, Victoria.

Updated May 16, 2022

Lowen, Fred

Lowen is a furniture designer and manufacturer, also working occasionally as a caricaturist, one of the 'Dunera Boys' interned in Hay and Tatura during the ...

Updated May 15, 2022

Connell, Chris

Chris Connell is one of the principals of the Melbourne design studio Chris Connell Design and the co-founder of MAP International Furniture (MAP: Merchants of ...

Updated May 12, 2022

Star Furnishers

Star Furnishers is a furniture designer/maker exhibiting modernist timber furniture in a WA furniture exhibition in 1966.

Updated May 10, 2022

Jay-Mac Quality Furniture

Jay-Mac was a brand created by J. McCain P/L, Lewisham, NSW. Their work (dining table and four upholstered chairs) was shown in a Lawsons auction, ...

Updated April 9, 2022

Lucas, Bill, b. 1924

Bill Lucas was a Sydney architect best known for his own Lucas house, aka Glass House, Castlecrag (1958). During the early 1950s, he also designed ...

Updated March 26, 2022

, Wrightbilt

Wrightbilt is identified as Wrightbilt Fashion Furniture active after 1960 advertising their "TV Chair" nationally in the "Australian Womens Weekly" and on TV. By 1961, ...

Updated March 20, 2022