Grant Featherston
Australian furniture designer (1922–1995)
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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.
17 October 1922
Grant Featherston | |
|---|---|
| Born | Grant Stanley Featherston 17 October 1922 Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 9 October 1995 (aged 72) Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Furniture designer |
| Notable work | Contour Chair R160 |
| Spouse | Mary Featherston |
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
- R152 Chair (1951) Grant Featherston
- Wing Chair (1951) Grant Featherston
- R160 Lounge chair (1951) Grant Featherston
- R161 & R161H (1952) sofa, Grant Featherston
- Z300 Chaise longue (1953) Z300 Grant Featherston (Made under licence by Gordon Mather Industries since 1989)
- Talking chairs (1967) Grant and Mary Featherston
Further reading
Whitehouse, Denise. "Design for Life: Grant and Mary Featherston", 2018, Heide Museum of Modern Art, (ISBN 9781921330629).
- Isaac, Geoff. "Featherston" Hardback, September 2017, Thames & Hudson (ISBN 978-0500501108)
- Lane, Terence. "Featherston chairs: [exhibition] National Gallery of Victoria, 30 March-7 August 1988" Paperback – 1988 (ISBN 978-0724101306)