Home furnishing

Ellen Marshall’s kitchen dresser

(Re)making a home

An evocative collection of household items belonging to the last tenants of Susannah Place

Sydney's home furnishing stores

A Hall & Co

A Hall & Co was a retailer of home furnishings and manufacturer of furniture.

View of a bedroom with faded and torn wallpaper with an old map of the world on one wall, a single bed, dressing table and view through a door to the top of a staircase, with faded and damaged paintwork.

A House In The Making

After 162 years of being continuously occupied 62 Gloucester Street was opened to the public for the first time in 2006

Matching wool colours using a late 19th-century pattern and unfinished Berlin wool work sample from the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection

A stitch in time

Tatting, knotting, knitting, pin-tucking, crocheting, pinking, stitching, stuffing, embroidering … needles fly at Elizabeth Bay House

Light fittings

A world of designs

Trade catalogues, published to illustrate the products for sale from a manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer, reveal the surprising wealth of choice available to Australian consumers in the 19th century

Three heavily laden trucks driving
Sydney's home furnishing stores

Anthony Hordern & Sons

Anthony Hordern & Sons was arguably Australia's largest retailer from the late 19th through to the mid-20th century.

Sydney's home furnishing stores

Beard Watson & Co

Beard Watson & Co was renowned in Sydney as a retailer and manufacturer of high-class furnishings for the home.

Sydney's home furnishing stores

Bebarfalds

Bebarfalds was a retailer of home furnishings and manufacturer of furniture, trading for many years from its landmark location opposite the Sydney Town Hall on the corner of George and Park Streets.