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Lander, Cyril George, b. 1892
Cyril George Lander was born in 1892. He was a painter, cabinetmaker and restorer of antique furniture. He was made a Fellow of the Royal ...
Krimper, Schulim, b. 1893
Krimper was a Victoria-based cabinet maker and designer with a particular interest in non-figurative but expressive carving and the exploration of the values of Australian ...
Millington, H.C. , b. 1898
Millington is a commercial furniture designer active in the middle decades of the 20th century. In 1928, he had showrooms at 229 Liverpool Street, Hobart, ...
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 ...
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. ...
Ratner, Saul, b. 1900
Saul Ratner worked as a designer and maker for J. Ratner & Co., founded by Joseph Ratner in 1911 in Camden St, Newtown, a suburb ...
Guest, Nancy, b. 1901
Painter. In 1926 Guest won the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship with her oil 'The Fortune Teller.'
Farrell, James, b. 1902
Melbourne-trained tram conductor who worked as a painter, potter and designer. Farrell designed a pedestal chair with the seat formed from Perspex for Module and ...
Manne, H., b. 1904
Manne is identified as a furniture maker, H. Manne Co., 605 Lygon Street, North Carlton, Victoria. He was active as a furniture maker in New ...
Kafka, Paul Ernst, b. 1907
Kafka was a Viennese furniture maker who arrived in Australia in 1939 and worked under the name, Paul Kafka Exclusive Furniture Pty Ltd. He executed ...
Gerstl, Michael, b. 1908
Michael Gerstl was a Viennese designer who emigrated to Australia in 1947 to set up Gerstl, a cabinetmaking business with many European immigrant clients. Commissions ...
McDonell, Gerard H. B., b. 1908
McDonell was an architect who designed the house in Gordon (and the dining furniture) that won the 1940 Sulman Award. The 1940 Sulman Award was ...
Hearn Bros. and Stead
Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...
Ricketts & Thorp
Ricketts & Thorp were Sydney manufacturers of fine furniture. The designs were often to the clients' specifications. They worked for the NSW State Government, the ...
Shapiro, Sol, b. 1914
Shapiro was a cabinet maker, arriving in Perth in 1939. He worked in uncle's cabinet-making factory, later for Paul Ernest Kafka, Sydney (1948-1951), he returned ...
West, Laurence, b. 1914
West was a writer, lecturer & retailer of modernist designer furniture in Brisbane. He frequently wrote on furniture design & at one point in his ...
Sebel, Harry, b. 1915
Sebel was a furniture & toy designer/manufacturer. He worked with his father in metalwork in UK, then establishing a furniture manufacturing works in Sydney. Specialising ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stapleton, Russell Kenneth, b. 1919
Stapleton was a principal of Standis Furniture Pty Ltd, North Richmond, Victoria. Standis produced period reproductions as well as a line of Danish Modern furniture ...