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The Australian Furniture Brands We Can’t Get Enough Of
From sofas you'll live on to dining tables worth keeping for decades, these are the Australian furniture brands our editors rate for every room, style and budget.
Some furniture fills a room. Good furniture defines it. In Australia, that might mean the generous upholstery of Jardan, a polished Fleur Studios table, the joyful maximalism of Fenton & Fenton or a piece handmade in Brunswick by Made by Morgen. Different as they are, these brands prove there’s far more to Australian furniture than one recognisable aesthetic. From sofas you’ll live on to future heirlooms, these are the local furniture brands we rate.
In this Guide
- Best Australian-Made & Custom Furniture
- Best Australian Furniture Brands for Furnishing a Whole Home
- Best Australian Sofa Brands and Modular Seating
- Best Luxury Stores & Designer Showrooms in Australia
- Best Australian Furniture Brands for Sculptural, Statement Pieces
- Best Australian Stores for Vintage and Collected Interiors
- Best Australian Furniture Brands for Artisan-Made Pieces
- Best Affordable Australian Furniture Brands
- Best Australian Outdoor Furniture Brands
Best Australian-Made and Custom Furniture Brands
Jardan
What began as a small Melbourne upholstery workshop in 1987 has become one of Australia’s best-established furniture design and manufacturing businesses. Jardan remains family-led by Nick, Michael and Renee Garnham, with a 16,000-square-metre headquarters in Scoresby where its furniture, lighting and homewares are all designed and made. The range has expanded well beyond its early upholstery roots, but sofas, armchairs and other generously upholstered pieces remain central to the Jardan look: distinctly Australian, easy-going and beautifully finished.
Made by Morgen
A six-month stint in Denmark was the unlikely catalyst for Made by Morgen, after founder Nick McDonald left construction and returned to Victoria with a new appreciation for Scandinavian furniture. Today, his Brunswick workshop produces custom timber furniture by hand, using FSC-certified timber and working with private clients, architects and designers. For anyone who would rather buy one beautiful dining table and keep it for decades than replace three cheaper ones, this is the kind of maker worth knowing.
Studio Henry Wilson
Sydney designer Henry Wilson has spent the past decade-plus making everyday objects unusually difficult to overlook. Since establishing his studio in 2012, he has worked across furniture, lighting and accessories in materials including metal, stone and glass, with each piece serving as a considered artwork in its own right. There’s an appealing pragmatism behind the work as well. The forms are striking, but built for functional use, with construction and materials that are intended to age and transform with the space over time.
Zenn Design
If you’re furnishing a room around a very particular vision, Zenn Design is one Melbourne studio to have on your radar. Founded and creatively directed by Hannah Goldberg, it specialises in made-to-order upholstered furniture, from bedheads and banquettes to plush seating, alongside bespoke window treatments. Locally sourced materials and hand-finishing give each commission its own character, making the studio particularly well suited to renovations and interiors where standard dimensions and styles simply won’t do.
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Best Australian Furniture Brands for Furnishing a Whole Home
MCM House
MCM House has a knack for making a whole home feel pulled together without making every piece look like it came from the same catalogue. Its furniture draws on mid-century forms but softens them through generous proportions, understated upholstery and natural finishes, spanning sofas and beds through to dining and occasional furniture. The result is an easy foundation for layered interiors, particularly if your taste runs towards warm minimalism rather than overtly decorative furniture.
GlobeWest
Since brothers Alan and Stephen Mendel founded GlobeWest in Melbourne in 2004, the business has grown into one of Australia’s largest locally owned furniture and homewares companies. Its great strength is its range. GlobeWest covers living, dining, bedroom, outdoor and decorative pieces, with enough variation in material, colour and silhouette to suit vastly different interior tastes. The latest collections continue that breadth, bringing together everything from natural timber and marble to softer, more architectural outdoor forms.
Best Australian Sofa Brands and Modular Seating
King Living
Since 1977, family-owned King Living has been rethinking the sofa around the way Australians actually live. Its signature modular systems can be reconfigured as rooms change, with the brand engineering and manufacturing its own furniture rather than simply retailing other labels. The result is a particularly practical proposition for busy households, where a sofa needs to handle movie nights, growing families and the occasional room reshuffle without being replaced altogether.
Banana Home
There’s a reason the sofa sits at the heart of Banana Home. The family-run business, which dates back to 1988, has become well known for its Cloud range, where feather-and-down filling, modular layouts and removable covers are geared towards serious lounging. Its newer June sofa takes a different tack with a natural-latex core, giving the brand another answer to the eternal Australian interiors question: how do you make a sofa comfortable and hearty enough to actually live on?
McMullin
At McMullin, the sofa feels like the true anchor of the home. The Sydney brand favours generous proportions and relaxed upholstery, with the Uma, Hugo and Winslow among its signature seating designs, alongside beds, dining furniture, lighting and homewares that are equally scene-stealing. It suits the buyer who likes a calm, spacious interior and wants the option to tailor upholstery rather than settle for whatever happens to be on the showroom floor.
Crafted
Customisation is the real drawcard at Crafted, where sofas and upholstered furniture can be specified down to dimensions, cushion fill and fabric. That makes it a useful middle ground between off-the-shelf furniture and a fully bespoke commission, particularly when a room has an awkward footprint or you have a very particular idea of how you want a sofa to sit. Its Australian design team also gives the range a more considered, sculptural edge than you might expect from a custom furniture specialist.
Best Luxury Furniture Stores and Designer Showrooms in Australia
Coco Republic
Few Australian furniture stores have the breadth of Coco Republic, which traces its origins back to Paul Spon-Smith’s first 1984 Sydney showroom. The family-run business now brings together its own furniture and homewares with an extensive stable of designer labels, plus an established interior design service and showrooms around the country. It is particularly useful for anyone furnishing a whole home in one sitting, with a style vocabulary that runs from classic coastal and Hamptons influences through to more contemporary pieces.
Fred International
For lovers of Scandinavian design, Fred International feels like a carefully edited gateway to some of Europe’s most respected names. Founded in 2007 by Michael Liira and Melissa Walker, the Australian company represents brands such as Fogia, Swedese, Verpan, Audo Copenhagen and Møbel Copenhagen. Its appeal is in the curation: rather than trying to do everything, Fred International gives Australian design devotees access to a tightly selected roster of Nordic furniture, lighting and outdoor pieces.
Fanuli
Three generations of the Fanuli family have been in the furniture business since Giuseppe Fanuli opened his first Sydney store in 1976, bringing his cabinet-making background with him. Today, Fanuli occupies a particularly rare position in the Australian market, combining its own Australian-made collection with major Italian design houses including Flexform, Kristalia, MD House and Riva 1920. This is the destination for a more serious furniture purchase, particularly if you’re looking for pieces with the pedigree, customisation and craftsmanship to justify making them part of the house for the long haul.
Best Australian Furniture Brands for Sculptural, Statement Pieces
Trit House
Nearly two decades in, Trit House remains a Melbourne name to know for furniture that isn’t afraid to make an impression. Its offering combines in-house designs with international labels such as Ethnicraft and Wendelbo, moving between sculptural seating, substantial tables, tactile upholstery and more playful forms. The result is an elegant mix-and-match approach that works well in interiors where the furniture forms part of a larger visual story, rather than simply taking up space.
Fleur Studios
Stone, steel and timber do most of the talking at Gold Coast-based Fleur Studios. Its dining tables and seating bring together materials such as stainless steel, Calacatta Nero marble, onyx and oak, with recent additions including the Onda tables and Carlo seating adding to an already distinctive catalogue that commands attention in even the most minimalist homes. If sleek, fashion-forward furniture has you hooked, Fleur is one to bookmark.
Ellison Studios
There is a beautifully glossy sensibility running through Ellison Studios, where furniture often has the presence of an oversized fashion accessory. The Alva armchair and Chromeo seating are among its recognisable designs, while the broader range moves through marble, brushed steel, leather, timber and plush upholstery across indoor and outdoor furniture. It will appeal to anyone who sees a sofa, chair or table as an opportunity to bring a little drama into an otherwise restrained room.
Create Estate
Furniture becomes a little more unexpected at Create Estate, where contemporary design meets vintage references and a healthy dose of personality. The brand is particularly great for the bedroom, with alluring beds, bedside tables and occasional furniture that can turn an otherwise quiet space into something with real presence. Its work sits comfortably alongside the kind of considered architecture and coastal interiors found across Noosa, Burleigh Heads and Sydney’s finest homes.
Best Australian Stores for Vintage and Collected Interiors
Rachel Donath
Melbourne designer and collector Rachel Donath launched her brand in 2020 with an approach that blurs the line between furniture and art. Her own designs sit alongside carefully sourced antiques, allowing an interior to move between eras rather than committing to one particular look. Ideal for the collector who would rather discover and add intriguing items piece by piece rather than buying a matching suite all at once.
Tigmi Trading
Tigmi Trading rewards a slow browse. Founded by Byron Bay creative Danielle McEwan, the business brings together its own furniture and rugs with vintage finds, international labels and artisan-made pieces, from distinctive seating to hand-crafted lighting and one-off mid-century furniture. It is an especially good fit for homes that have evolved through travel, collecting and years of finding things you love.
Fenton & Fenton
Colour is the calling card at Fenton & Fenton, which Lucy Fenton launched in 2008 after drawing inspiration from the craft and exuberance she encountered in India. Its online store and showroom brings together the brand’s own furniture and homewares alongside art sourced from around the world, with plenty of pattern, colour and retro-inspired silhouettes the mix. This is where to look when beige-on-beige isn’t quite cutting it.
Merci Maison
Sydney-based Merci Maison started out of its founders’ interior design work and custom furniture commissions, which helps explain the sense of curation running through the collection. Contemporary pieces sit alongside vintage finds and custom lighting, with materials such as teak, mahogany, raffia and rattan giving the range a relaxed, worldly quality. Think Paris flea-market meets modern Australian home. Small-batch production keeps the offering feeling more personal than a conventional furniture catalogue, making it a good hunting ground for pieces you won’t see in every second home.
Plume Homeware
Founded by best friends Jordyn and Kirstin, Plume grew out of a shared obsession with interiors, hosting and collecting vintage pieces. The brand’s first chapter began with a sourcing trip through the South of France in 2025, and that European influence still runs through its edit of vintage furniture and homewares, each chosen for its history, texture and sense of character. Alongside the vintage finds, Plume is now developing original designs inspired by the objects the founders love to collect, creating pieces intended to gather meaning and stories as they become part of your home.
Best Australian Furniture Brands for Artisan-Made Pieces
WORN
WORN takes a refreshingly direct approach to making furniture, working with Indonesian craftspeople rather than a conventional factory model. Founded in 2015 by partners Lia-Belle King and Lotte Barnes-King, the Byron Bay business began with a single chair and has since expanded into furniture and home objects made through long-standing relationships with makers. The appeal is as much in the hands behind each piece as the finished form, making it a natural fit for interiors where craft and provenance matter.
INARTISAN
Artist Emily Heysen founded INARTISAN with a vision that sits somewhere between an art practice and a furniture studio. Her own artwork feeds into the designs, which are then brought to life by talented artisans in Australia and overseas using materials including reclaimed timber and sandstone. Expect the occasional mark, variation or irregularity: these are pieces for people who would rather see evidence of the hand that made them than have every surface look machine-perfect.
Best Affordable Australian Furniture Brands
RJ Living
RJ Living was founded in 2012 with a focus on bringing a more design-conscious look to a more accessible price point. The Melbourne-based, female-led design team develops furniture across sofas, dining, beds, rugs and storage, with the 2026 Roam collection leaning into warm timber, rounded forms and mid-century references. It occupies a useful space between big-box furniture and high-end investment pieces, particularly for younger buyers furnishing a first home or upgrading room by room.
Koala
Koala’s story started with a mattress delivered in a box, but the Australian brand has since grown into a full furniture and homewares business. Sofas, beds, dining and outdoor pieces now sit alongside its original sleep offering, all wrapped in the same online-first approach that made the brand so easy to buy in the first place. For renters, first-home buyers or anyone who’d rather assemble a room without a showroom marathon, Koala keeps the process pleasingly straightforward.
Best Australian Outdoor Furniture Brands
Tait
Few Australian outdoor furniture brands have the local design pedigree of Tait. Founded by Gordon and Susan Tait in 1992, the Melbourne brand designs and makes its furniture locally, with collections created specifically to handle the realities of the Australian outdoors. Expect clean-lined dining settings, benches and seating with a distinctly contemporary feel, backed by considered materials and lower-impact manufacturing practices.
Business & Pleasure Co
Business & Pleasure Co knows its way around a good-looking summer. Best known for its fringed umbrellas and nostalgic stripes, the Australian-born brand has expanded that same sun-soaked aesthetic into outdoor furniture, with loungers, dining chairs, tables and accessories that aren’t afraid of a little colour. Consider it your shortcut to giving a plain patio or pool area considerably more personality.
Other Australian Furniture Brands With Outdoor Ranges
Many of our favourite interior furniture brands also produce stunning pieces for the outdoors too. Look to standouts like MCM House, Jardan, GlobeWest, Coco Republic and King Living, or for more ideas, check out our full guide to the best outdoor furniture brands.
Whether you’re commissioning a handmade dining table from Made by Morgen or hunting down a one-off mid-century find at Tigmi Trading, the best Australian furniture brands reward buying with intention. Once the bigger pieces are in place, finish the bedroom with our edit of the best narrow bedside tables in Australia, or keep a collected look going with the best places to shop antiques online. For more ideas across every room, explore our home design guides.
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