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Tarrant, Harley, b. 1860
Tarrant was amongst the first to design and build a motor car in Australia, the "Tarrant". Beginning as an automobile importer, he developed his first ...
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Harcourt, Clewin, b. 1870
Clewin Harcourt had a successful early career as an artist, both in Australia and in Europe. In his later years he lived a life of ...
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 ...
Hawthorne, Heliodore, b. 1895
Painter, teacher and co-founder of Undergrowth: A Magazine of Youth and Ideals, 1925-1929. Worked at the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow NSW manufacturing guns 1942-1945 and ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911
Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...
Halvorsen, Carl, b. 1912
Halvorsen, son of a Norwegian boat-builder, designed and built motor yachts from shipyards in Neutral Bay, later Ryde, then Bobbin Head NSW. While the company's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The violin body has a two piece sound board with grain very close together at center widening to edge; red/ orange brown flaming varnish. Single ...

Gross, Yoram, b. 1926
Gross was a film animator, director and producer. He became a film maker in Poland in 1947, later moving to Israel in 1950 working as ...
Marek, Dusan, b. 1926
Painter, film maker and radical Surrealist. Came to Australia as a political refugee in 1948 and through his teaching as well as his art, had ...
J. McCain Furniture
Founded by James McCain in 1926. The company also produced furniture in the 1950s and 1960s under the name JAYMAC.
Fraser, Lilias, b. 1930
Fraser was a film maker directing films such as the First Nations land-rights documentaries such as "This is their Land" (1969); Women of the Iron ...
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Harvey, Anthony John Heriot, b. 1930
Harvey was a designer,sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker, map maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. Especially noted for ...
Hood, Warwick, b. 1932
Hood worked as a naval architect designing yachts and commercial vessels in Australia, the Pacific, Guyana and Bangladesh. He established a design firm in 1963. ...