Marmalade Issue 5, 2017

e Goulder family were
making furniture in the 1920 s , selling to lea
ding department ores of the day. e move
to Bowral, regional NSW, probably mirror
ed the marginalisation of the indury our ci
ty centres over the course of the second half
century
of the 20th . is move seems to mirror ho
w few Auralian furniture companies have
managed to achieve intergenerational succ
ess from the perspeive of being at the cu
tting edge of trends. Goulder has talked
about his hatred of all the decorative yles
that poured through the Goulder worksho
p. His university degree in furniture design
enshrined a new direion that kept him at
tuned to trends of the contemporary intern
ational marketplace for design. But, that is
exaly what the Viorian designs were of
their
Australian design
examples of an international yle being p
ushed by the British Empire, which had the
bigge trade routes in the world. Auralian
design is always a refleion of the changin
g nature of globalised trade. We do not init
iate those changes but we inherit & adopt o
ur own way of living to them. e Broached
Goulder colleion will, in part, be a refle
ion upon these sometimes quite personal &
traumatic divorces between one period of
design & another. In the end, it is individ
uals who create design, & in the inance of
Goulder it was the mo talented maker of
the family deciding to take his talents into
a new era of globalised design. Broached
Goulder is about leaving home & going hom
e again, as a mid-career praitioner, through
the work.
time;