Grant Featherston Explained

Grant Featherston
Birth Name:Grant Stanley Featherston
Birth Date:1922 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Death Place:Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Occupation:Furniture designer
Notable Works:Contour Chair R160
Spouse:Mary Featherston

Grant Stanley Featherston (17 October 1922 – 9 October 1995) was an Australian furniture designer whose chair designs in the 1950s became icons of the Atomic Age.

He was born in Geelong, Victoria.[1] In 1965 he married Mary Bronwyn Currey, an English-born interior designer, and the couple worked in close partnership as interior designers over several decades.[2]

He is most famous for his furniture designs, especially The 'Contour Chair R160’ chair.[3] He marketed his modernist chairs through art galleries including Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne and they are now highly collectable on a par with fine art[4] and in 2013 began to attain high prices at auction.[5] [6] He is considered Australia's best known furniture designer.

His work has been featured in several museum retrospectives of post-war furniture,[7] [8] including the National Gallery of Victoria 2013 exhibition, Mid-Century Modern Australian Furniture Design.[9]

Works

Furniture designs

Further reading

Whitehouse, Denise. "Design for Life: Grant and Mary Featherston", 2018, Heide Museum of Modern Art, .

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home . featherston.com.au.
  2. Denise . Whitehouse . Featherston, Grant Stanley (1922–1995) . 2019 . featherston-grant-stanley-23842 . 3 March 2020 .
  3. Web site: Famous Australian Furniture Designers - The Top 8 . 2024-06-03 . Architecture & Design . en.
  4. Web site: A chair with flair - the value of designer furniture. 18 June 2014.
  5. Web site: Modernist furniture goes boom. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140726071120/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/money/investing/modernist-furniture-goes-boom-20140717-ztvtn.html. 2014-07-26.
  6. Web site: 2017-07-12 . Why this Featherston tatty looking chair is worth $11,000 . 2023-08-01 . Australian Financial Review . en.
  7. Web site: Australia's own 20th century furniture designs on show. 20 May 2014.
  8. including The National Gallery of Victoria exhibition Mid-Century Modern: Australian Furniture Design.
  9. Web site: Broadway World - Broadway News, Tickets, Videos & More.

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