An Arts and Crafts Villa with an Art Deco Style Facelift - Travancore
This beautiful Arts and Crafts style villa built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore received a facelift in the 1920s.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the simple roofline and restrained use of feature bricks around the porch and windows are Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the overall design with the central porch. Yet somewhere in the 1920s, the facade of the house was updated with some Art Deco detailing, including a wonderful sunburst grille over the front door. This pattern is also displayed to great effect in the adapted front fence, and is, I believe, its finest feature. In spite of the amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it a little more unique than its neighbours, which are Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne in style.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone double brick residence would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.
An Arts and Crafts Villa with an Art Deco Style Facelift - Travancore
This beautiful Arts and Crafts style villa built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore received a facelift in the 1920s.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the simple roofline and restrained use of feature bricks around the porch and windows are Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the overall design with the central porch. Yet somewhere in the 1920s, the facade of the house was updated with some Art Deco detailing, including a wonderful sunburst grille over the front door. This pattern is also displayed to great effect in the adapted front fence, and is, I believe, its finest feature. In spite of the amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it a little more unique than its neighbours, which are Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne in style.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone double brick residence would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.