Mid-century Modern in Victoria

Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation's canon. This new book responds to Boyd's most well-known text with new critical and creative writing by authors from a range of disciplines. Th...

From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuil...

Scope and content: Charts the development of a nation's architecture through the work and personalities of a single architectural practice. From Joseph Reed (1853) [Reed & Barnes (1862) ; Reed Henderson & Smart (1883) ; Reed Smart & Tappin (1890) ; Smart Tappin & Peebles (1906) ; Bates Peebles & ...

This is the much anticipated follow up book to Beaumaris Modern: Modernist Homes in Beaumaris. Book 2 features a range of significant freshly discovered mid-century modern houses, some restored and others renovated by a contemporary architect. Like the first book, the photography by two of Austra...

Beaumaris Modern - Modernist Homes in Beaumaris is a collection of mid-century modern Beaumaris houses, beautifully documented by Jack Shelton, a bayside local now living and working as a professional photographer in LA. Some are original in their design and are the architects' own homes from the...

"This is the first book to celebrate the life and work of Grant Featherston (1922-1995), the Melbourne-based industrial designer most well known for his Contour chairs. This collection was designed and developed in the early 1950s and remains highly sought after by mid-century collectors in Austr...