Streamline Moderne Art Deco Maisonette - 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.
The maisonette in this photograph, which is only one of the two, shows round porthole feature windows with rippled glass, stuccoed brick walls with speed line detailing, a natutical porch lamp, a rounded porch and rounded front steps. This is totally different to its pair, which has the honeyed clinker brick walls exposed with horizontal bars of brown bricks and geometric patterns in concrete between the streamlined windows.
This way, even though the maisonettes were joined, the owners did not have to sacrifice their individuality!
Streamline Moderne Art Deco Maisonette - 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.
The maisonette in this photograph, which is only one of the two, shows round porthole feature windows with rippled glass, stuccoed brick walls with speed line detailing, a natutical porch lamp, a rounded porch and rounded front steps. This is totally different to its pair, which has the honeyed clinker brick walls exposed with horizontal bars of brown bricks and geometric patterns in concrete between the streamlined windows.
This way, even though the maisonettes were joined, the owners did not have to sacrifice their individuality!