Australian Furniture

Australian Furniture posts cover both the bush and colonial furniture made from native timbers and the modernist designers of the postwar decades. Articles look at the use of Tasmanian Blackwood, Jarrah, River Red Gum and Huon Pine, the country chairs and dressers of the colonial period, the studio designers Schulim Krimper and Fred Ward, the postwar Featherston chair, the slow rise of high-end studio makers in Melbourne and Hobart and the contemporary green-credentials marketing around Australian-grown plantation timber. There are also notes on identifying a real Featherston versus a recent reproduction.