Members Hour: Rose Seidler House
Welcome to Members Hour: Rose Seidler House.
Rose Seidler House contains a remarkable collection of furniture, furnishings and household effects amassed by the late Harry Seidler AC OBE (1923–2006) for use in the house he designed for his parents, Rose and Max.
Rose Seidler was a generous hostess and a wonderful cook, and in 1950 her kitchen was fitted with the very latest model refrigerator, mixer, stove, dishwasher and exhaust fan. Harry Seidler’s belief that ‘the relation between the kitchen work centre and the dining room table must be an arm’s length matter’ was brought to fruition in his design of a counter in the kitchen that acted as a servery and could be shut off from the dining room by a sliding panel.
Join our museum experts to hear stories of the Seidler family and learn about this icon of modernist architecture and the collections that give the property its unique character.
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Rose Seidler House stories
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Conserving Harry Seidler’s sofa
A sofa Harry Seidler designed for Rose Seidler House was conserved and reupholstered, and the process revealed some unexpected findings
Eulogy Harry Seidler AC OBE 1923-2006
This is an edited version of a eulogy given by Peter Watts at Harry Seidler's Memorial Service at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, 6 April 2006
Cook & Curator
Translating tastes: the Rose Seidler recipe collection
Recently translated from the original German, recipes kept by Rose Seidler provide valuable insight into her culinary heritage and Austrian identity
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