Grant 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.

Grant Featherston
Born
Grant Stanley Featherston

(1922-10-17)17 October 1922
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Died9 October 1995(1995-10-09) (aged 72)
Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationFurniture designer
Notable workContour Chair R160
SpouseMary 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. 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[3] and in 2013 began to attain high prices at auction.[4][5] He is considered Australia's best known furniture designer.

His work has been featured in several museum retrospectives of post-war furniture,[6][7] including the National Gallery of Victoria 2013 exhibition, Mid-Century Modern Australian Furniture Design.[8]

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)

References
  1. "Home". featherston.com.au.
  2. Whitehouse, Denise (2019). "Featherston, Grant Stanley (1922–1995)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  3. "A chair with flair - the value of designer furniture". 18 June 2014.
  4. "Modernist furniture goes boom". Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.
  5. "Why this Featherston tatty looking chair is worth $11,000". Australian Financial Review. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  6. "Australia's own 20th century furniture designs on show". 20 May 2014.
  7. including The National Gallery of Victoria exhibition Mid-Century Modern: Australian Furniture Design.
  8. "Broadway World - Broadway News, Tickets, Videos & More".
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