If you are a contemporary furniture designer/maker with high quality work to show the world our website contemporaryfurniture.org is the place for you.

If you are student of furniture design anywhere in the world or have furniture design as a subject in your studies, this is the place to show your designs.

We can present your work within a community of other designer/makers. We can all benefit from the profile and traffic that a community can provide, even if you already have an internet presence elsewhere.

Over 500 invited guests rocked up to the Cooroy Butter Factory at friday 17 september 2004 for the opening of the 8th Contemporary Furniture Exhibition. It was a great turnout, and guests were delighted with beautiful pieces of furniture on exhibit and for sale.

The judges surprise decision not to award a prize for 'Avant Garde' but instead decided to award an extra winner in the 'Design Excellence Award' proves that the standard of furniture is of such high calibre to make the judging process quite a difficult one. Prize money for each of the categories is $1,000.

Matthew Harding is an established furniture designer/maker, wood carver and sculptor from Australia with over twenty years of experience working in wood and arts related fields. His works encompass large-scale public sculpture, furniture design, fine art exhibitions and lecturing.

Rod and Alison Wales set up their furniture business in the south of England in 1980. Since then Wales & Wales have gained a reputation for timeless, intelligent design, emerging from a craft background without being confined by it. The experience of making contributes clarity and refinement to their design for production as much as to the one-offs or short runs from their own workshop.