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Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–1985) was an Australian architect and furniture designer. He was born in 1916 in Gravesend, Kent, England Douglas Snelling arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1926. As a teenager, began his own graphic arts and shop window design business in Wanganui. In 1937 he travelled to Hollywood, where he freelanced making sketches, and began to emulate Errol Flynn's style. He returned to New Zealand in 1938 and became a writer, broadcaster and publicist of new movies and stars from 1938 to 1940.

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rdfs:label	Douglas Snelling (en)
rdfs:comment	Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–1985) was an Australian architect and furniture designer. He was born in 1916 in Gravesend, Kent, England Douglas Snelling arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1926. As a teenager, began his own graphic arts and shop window design business in Wanganui. In 1937 he travelled to Hollywood, where he freelanced making sketches, and began to emulate Errol Flynn's style. He returned to New Zealand in 1938 and became a writer, broadcaster and publicist of new movies and stars from 1938 to 1940. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Powerhouse Museum 1985 deaths England (band) Frank Lloyd Wright Gravesend, Kent Angkor Wat Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1916 births Wellington, New Zealand Errol Flynn Norton Simon Museum Four Corners Monument Harry Seidler 20th-century Australian architects New Zealand emigrants to Australia British emigrants to New Zealand People from Gravesend, Kent Khmer Empire Wanganui Prince Sihanouk
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/179141628
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has abstract	Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–1985) was an Australian architect and furniture designer. He was born in 1916 in Gravesend, Kent, England Douglas Snelling arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1926. As a teenager, began his own graphic arts and shop window design business in Wanganui. In 1937 he travelled to Hollywood, where he freelanced making sketches, and began to emulate Errol Flynn's style. He returned to New Zealand in 1938 and became a writer, broadcaster and publicist of new movies and stars from 1938 to 1940. He moved to Sydney in 1940 and worked as a publicist and in a munitions factory during the beginning of World War II. In 1945 he married NZ heiress Nancy Springhall. With her money he opened a business designing shop windows and furniture. His chairs featured parachute webbing and modernist design and according to the Powerhouse Museum, were "Australia's first popular, mass produced range of furniture sold widely through the major department stores from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s." He and his wife travelled to America where Snelling was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's work. When they returned to Australia in 1948, Snelling met architect, Harry Seidler, and began designing houses. He became a registered architect in 1952. He built modernist houses, apartment buildings, and office buildings. One of his designs won the 1955 House of the Year Award from Architecture and Arts magazine. He and his wife divorced in 1959 and the next year he married Patricia Gale (daughter of a wealthy Sydney property developer and grazier), with whom he raised three sons and her daughter by a previous marriage. In the mid-1960s they travelled to Cambodia, which started a long interest in that country that led him to a friendship with Prince Sihanouk, an appointment as an honorary consul (1970–75), and a hobby of collecting and trading Khmer antiquities. After Patricia's death in 1976, he moved with his teenage sons to Honolulu, where he married Swedish artist Marianne Sparre in the early 1980s. In 1985, he was concerned enough about his failing health to suddenly book a flight back to Sydney, where he died several days later of a brain aneurism. (en)
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