David Foulkes-Taylor was a Designer, Art Connoisseur and Entrepreneur. He was born in Perth in 1929 and studied at Geelong Grammar, where his art teacher Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack exposed him to the ideas of modern movement in arts, crafts, design and architecture.

Foulkes-Taylor enrolled in Architecture at Perth Technical School in 1947 but then moved to London and studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. After graduating, he worked for a furniture firm in the UK and also spent time travelling on the Continent and living in New York. He returned to Australia in 1954 and set up a gallery and business in the Perth suburb of Crawley. Here he displayed modern imported furniture and also designed his own furniture.

His Triangle Gallery opened in 1960 and was a gathering spot for the Perth arts fraternity. He advised on and furnished many projects, having a pervasive influence on the design of the ’new’ Perth of the 1960’s. Following his sudden death in 1966, The WA Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) staged a retrospective of his work in 1982 under the title ’The Foulkes-Taylor Years’. He is remembered as a catalyst for new ideas and an innovative promoter of other Western Australian artists.