Person

Beauvais, Charles Frederick

Born: England
Occupation: Industrial designer, Artist and Futurist

Summary

Charles Beauvais emigrated to Melbourne in 1937. He worked for General Motors Holden designing customised vehicles and contributed futurist drawings and articles to the Argus newspaper e.g. "The Car of the Future". Beauvais created a model of the City of the Future in 1947. He established his own industrial design company in Sydney.

Details

Fl 1920s-50s.

Archival resources

Powerhouse Museum

Charles Frederick Beauvais - Records, 1920 - 1975, 98/44/1; Powerhouse Museum. Details
Charles Frederick Beauvais - Records, 1920 - 1950, 97/195/1; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Published resources

Resources

'Beauvais, Charles Frederick', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476907. Details

Theses

Darwin, Norman Arthur, 'Early Australian automotive design 1895 - 1953', PhD thesis, RMIT University, 2018, 385 pp. http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/eserv/rmit:162422/Darwin.pdf. Appendix II - biographies pp.334-5. Details

Created: 21 December 2001, Last modified: 13 February 2018

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