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Berkowitz and Sons
Berkowitz and Sons, Hawksburn, are described as a large Melbourne furniture manufacturer in 1937. The factory was begun by Samuel Berkowitz in 1913, manufacturing "fine ...
Agostino & Brown
Agostino & Brown are a furniture design and manufacturing firm based in Adelaide, SA. The principals are Sam Agostino and Gareth Brown. Established in 2010, ...
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 ...
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'. ...
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Andrew, Florence
An apprentice dressmaker from Hurstville, New South Wales. Andrews designed and made a collection of ties between 1911–12.
Trask Furniture
Trask Furniture was a Melbourne furniture designer and manufacturer, initially based in South Melbourne ca.1947. The initial directors were Lou (L.C.) Trask, J.C. Alston and ...
Tiffany Furniture Company
Tasmanian furniture design and manufacturer. Est. in Launceston in 1946, Tiffany sold wholesale, then after 1982, began direct sales. The principals were James Guy (b.1916) ...
Hall, Ben, b. 1935
Hall trained as an architect at Sydney University, later tutoring after 1963 in addition to his architectural practice. He also painted and drew, exhibiting with ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Hayton, Cliff
Cliff Hayton was one of the principals of Hayson Furniture Manufacturing Company (others un-named) with workshops in South Melbourne, Carlton and West Footscray operating before ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hon, Hun
Identified as a furniture factory operator, Surry Hills, Sydney by Peter Gibson, Voices of Sydney’s Chinese Furniture Factory Workers, 1890–1920, Labour History, no. 112 (May ...
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 ...
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 ...
Albanis, Jenni, b.
Jenni Albanis was a Melbourne quilt maker who was active in the 1980s. The daughter of a dress-maker, Albanis was part of the Australian Quilter’s ...
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 ...
Darling, Juliet
Artist, illustrator, film maker, poet, writer of fiction, Juliet Darling also became well-known as the quietly supportive partner of the Sydney based curator, Nick Waterolow
King Furniture
King Furniture was founded in Sydney in 1977 by the King family. Initially, the furniture sold through a city marketplace later moving to a King ...