Florence Broadhurst
Florence Maud Broadhurst was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales and the perpetrator has not been apprehended. Her brightly coloured geometric and nature-inspired oversized designs were all hand printed.
About Florence Broadhurst in brief
Florence Maud Broadhurst was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales and the perpetrator has not been apprehended. Her brightly coloured geometric and nature-inspired oversized designs were all hand printed. By 1972, her wallpapers reportedly contained around 800 designs in eighty different colours, while by the mid-1970s she monopolised the quality end of the Australian market. In the late 1990s, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, a tiny but influential Sydney design store, held the wholesale and retail distribution rights for Broadhurst wallpaper.
Five hundred thirty Broadhurst’s designs are in the company’s collection but only a small proportion are printed by the company. Some licences have been granted for other uses, such as high-end fashion and swimwear. The French swimwear company Vilebrequin released a collection using a print by Florence Broadhurst for Father’s Day 2019 titled ‘Rabbits and Poodles’ They cite her designs as being the \”perfect antidote to aging and Pudgeoned to death with a large timber piece of timber.
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