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Organic Furniture
Patrick, J, Organic Furniture, Craft Arts, May/July 1986, pp. 36-40 The surprisingly functional mythological designs of Helmut Lueckenhausen combine old woodworking traditions with modern high-tech processes and materials. WOOD is one of...
Read MoreDesign is Art That Makes Itself Useful
Ed. Nathan, L, Profile Helmut Lueckenhausen, Design is Art That Makes Itself Useful, Australian Wood Review, Issue 3, 1993. The first lime I saw the work of Helmut, some ten or more years ago, I remember being intrigued as much by the forms...
Read MoreThe Chicago Fifteen: Contemporary Australian Furniture
Bogle, M, The Chicago Fifteen - Contemporary Australian Furniture, SculptureObjects Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, USA, 1996 The story of furniture in Australia follows the pattern that Mark Twain observed during an Australian lecture tour...
Read MoreHelmut Lueckenhausen and Friends
Griffiths, A, Helmut Lueckenhausen and Friends, Design World, No 12, 1987, pp. 34-41. Some designers' work is recognisably representative of a particular style or school while others is idiosyncratic. For the former that most precious of...
Read MoreBoutique Office Building
A. Griffiths, ‘Boutique Office Building’, Design Ink, No 13, July 1993, pp. 30-33 'A Collins Street building in Lygon Street' reads like real estate language, written to appeal to the more pretentious business person who...
Read MoreOn the Shelves of Memory and in the Temples of the Wardrobe
J. Smith, ‘Wunderkabinets, On the Shelves of Memory and in the Temples of the Wardrobe’, Object, No 3, 1999, p. 49. IF WE CAN SPEAK OF THE MYTHS WE LIVE BY, THEN WE CAN ALSO SPEAK OF OBJECTS AS BEING INTEGRAL TO OUR CONSTRUCTS OF...
Read MoreModern Australian Furniture: Helmut Lueckenhausen
Bogle, M and Landman, P, Modern Australian Furniture, Craftsman House, Roseville NSW, 1889, pp. 24-27 Helmut Lueckenhausen is a puzzling artist. He makes furniture, but it has all the attributes of sculpture. He seems a quiet, thoughtful...
Read MoreSymmetry, Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions
Murray, K, Symmetry, Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions, catalogue essay, 1994. In introducing crafts to their kindred trades and professions, two worlds come face to face. On the one hand, there is the world of the crafts, where...
Read MoreThe Cabinet of Helmut Lueckenhausen
K. Murray, ‘The Cabinet of Helmut Lueckenhausen’, Craft Victoria, 29, 1999, pp. 17-19. At the end of an academic year, a psychology student told me that she was leaving for Tel Aviv so ‘I can get some furniture for my...
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