A Streamline Moderne Villa in Cream and Red - Ballarat
Sprawling and stripped back, this is the facade of a pretty and very stylised cream stucco Art Deco villa found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
The rounded porch and canopy, speed line above the windows just below the gable and the minimal decoration all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the 1930s. The original low fence with its wrought iron gate is also very Art Deco. The clinker brick decoration would have been produced locally.
This comfortable, Metroland style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and moderate wealth without undue showiness.
A Streamline Moderne Villa in Cream and Red - Ballarat
Sprawling and stripped back, this is the facade of a pretty and very stylised cream stucco Art Deco villa found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
The rounded porch and canopy, speed line above the windows just below the gable and the minimal decoration all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the 1930s. The original low fence with its wrought iron gate is also very Art Deco. The clinker brick decoration would have been produced locally.
This comfortable, Metroland style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and moderate wealth without undue showiness.