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Sunday Arts

5:00pm Sunday, 06 Jul 2008  Society and Culture   CC G 

Iconic Australian designer Florence Broadhurst single-mindedly decided to turn the business of making wallpaper into an art form.

Her designs, created in the 1960s and 1970s, are back in vogue, adorning not just walls across the globe but furniture, fashion accessories, carpets, bikinis and high-fashion dresses.

Yet mysteries about this enigmatic woman remain. There are 530 designs in the Broadhurst archive. Was Broadhurst telling the truth when she claimed to have created hundreds more - the so-called 'Lost Broadhursts'?

Journalist Helen O'Neill has been on the case for over four years. In 2006 she published an award-winning book Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives.

But Helen hasn't been able to close the book on this 'cold case'. She is still pursuing the unsolved mysteries of Florence Broadhurst - and in fact - in just the last few weeks has made some startling discoveries - only Sunday Arts has the full story...

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 - Sunday, July 06 at 7:30pm

Also showing on ABC2
 - 7:30pm Sunday, July 13
 - 7:30pm Sunday, July 20
 - 7:30pm Sunday, July 27
Also showing on ABC
 - 5:00pm Sunday, July 13
 - 5:00pm Sunday, July 20
 - 5:00pm Sunday, July 27

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