Pair of Streamline Moderne Art Deco Maisonettes - Kooyong
With people wishing to have smaller and more easily managed houses after the Great War (1914 - 1918), architects began designing new ways of living in the 1920s and 1930s including flats and maisonettes.
This wonderfully stylised 1930s Streamline Moderne pair of maisonettes (two houses joined by a shared central wall), is a perfect example of this new way of living during the Interwar period.
One maisonette in this photograph shows a honeyed clinker brick wall with horizontal bars of brown bricks and geometric patterns in concrete between the streamlined windows, which is completely different to its pair which has round porthole feature windows, speed lines and a stuccoed brick wall treatment.
This way, even though the maisonettes were joined, the owners did not have to sacrifice their individuality!
Pair of Streamline Moderne Art Deco Maisonettes - Kooyong
With people wishing to have smaller and more easily managed houses after the Great War (1914 - 1918), architects began designing new ways of living in the 1920s and 1930s including flats and maisonettes.
This wonderfully stylised 1930s Streamline Moderne pair of maisonettes (two houses joined by a shared central wall), is a perfect example of this new way of living during the Interwar period.
One maisonette in this photograph shows a honeyed clinker brick wall with horizontal bars of brown bricks and geometric patterns in concrete between the streamlined windows, which is completely different to its pair which has round porthole feature windows, speed lines and a stuccoed brick wall treatment.
This way, even though the maisonettes were joined, the owners did not have to sacrifice their individuality!