Beryl Annie Blanche Guertner

Beryl Annie Blanche Guertner (22 October 1917 – 25 November 1981) was an Australian magazine editor and author. She led Australian House and Garden for 25 years.

Life Guertner was born in 1917 in Paddington. Her parents were Maude (born Ireland) and her husband Eugene Henry Gürtner. Her mother was from Sydney and her father was a German immigrant cook and masseur. The first editor was Guertner who was an enthusiast for interior design and gardening. The magazine championed the interior design advocate Marion Hall Best, the architects Robin Boyd and Harry Seidler and furniture designer Grant Featherston.

Her magazine's long collaboration with the architect, W. Watson Sharp, led to, The Australian House and Garden Book of Orchids, a book by him that sold under the name of the magazine in 1969.

Guertner was editor of Australian House and Garden until 1973 when she retired. She had lived with Catherine (Kate) Warmoll from 1949 at Warrimoo. The two of them moved to live at MacMasters Beach beside Cockrone lagoon.