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Featherston, Grant, b. 1922
Featherston was an Industrial design and design industry leader. Recognised for his furniture and exhibition work in partnership with Mary Featherston, he helped to form ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wrigley, Derek, b. 1924
Wrigley practiced architecture in the UK and Australia. Formerly employed as a lecturer Manchester College of Art, UK, lecturer at NSW University of Technology (now ...
Gruzman, Neville, b. 1925
Neville Gruzman was one of Sydney's significant independent architects from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was inspired by traditional Japanese architecture and landscape design, ...
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 ...
Worsley, Edward, b. 1926
Worsley studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, later becoming the principal of Stuart Furniture, Melbourne, a retailer of modernist furniture and furnishings. His ...
J. McCain Furniture
Founded by James McCain in 1926. The company also produced furniture in the 1950s and 1960s under the name JAYMAC.
Rudowski, Jakob, b. 1927
Rudowski arrived in Australia ca. 1960 and was naturalised in 1962 with an address in St Kilda. His original address unknown. Many of his Melbourne ...
Easden, Gerald, b. 1934
Easden was a furniture and interior designer working across the industry in the UK, Victoria and Canberra. He had extensive experience designing furniture and interiors ...
Archibald, Norman , b. 1937
Archibald is a furniture designer active ca.1973 developing furniture for Nore Furniture Pty Ltd, Bayswater, Victoria.
Gerstl, Heinz , b. 1937
Fourth generation Viennese cabinetmaker. Worked with his father at the family furniture factory from a young age, joining full time aged 17. Active role in ...
Ingham, George, b. 1940
Ingham was a furniture designer and maker with extensive training in England. He combined teaching, designing and making in the UK before taking a position ...
Perkins, Kevin, b. 1945
Bailey & Sons
Bailey & Sons were furniture makers in Edwardstown, South Australia known to have produced domestic timber furniture.
Smith, John, b. 1948
Smith was a furniture designer who came to Australia in 1970 to take up a position with the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. He later ...
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Smith, John, b. 1948
Smith was a furniture design and maker who initially trained in the graphic arts, later turning to 3-D design. Appointed Head of Wood/Furniture Design at ...
Petrolo, Franecisco, b. 1951
Franecisco Petrolo was born in Chiaravalle Centrale, Calabria, Italy in 1951 and emigrated to Australia in 1980. He served as an apprentice blacksmith in Calabria ...
Wright, Leslie John, b. 1951
Wright was a West Australian furniture designer and maker who worked as a Denmark WA farmer and photographer before returning to study at the West ...
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Liew, Khai, b. 1952
Khai Liew is a contemporary furniture designer and a conservator with a special interest in early Australian furniture. In 2007, he was made a Fellow ...