Furniture and interior designs - Georgette Zala

PXD 845

fonds

1950 - 1968

Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings

404710

29 Architectural and Technical Drawings

Hungarian-born Georgette Zala arrived in Australia in the 1930s. She established herself in Sydney as a designer, often of reproduction period or European interiors, to Sydney's extensive European migrant community.

Series 1) Design drawings for interiors and furniture for Mrs Ross, Vaucluse, including side-boards and panelling, chairs, dining tables, incidental furniture and design for study, ca. 1966. Designs are reproduction eighteenth century.
Series 2) Incidental designs for wall unit, desk and lounge designs
Series 3) Incidental designs for wall units, record cabinets, chairs and cupboards
Series 4) Miscellaneous photographs of interiors and features. Includes copper wall panels designed by Zala, a motel reception area and an executive wall cupboard designed for Jacobi & Co. Floor 5 O'Connell House, 1968
Series 5) Flower stall designed for Martin Place Sydney, 1954
Series 6) Miscellaneous printed matter including an invitation to the opening of the Chevron Hotel, 1960
Series 7) Carpet samples from the Chevron Hotel, and the Hooker Rex Hotel