"Carwel" a Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa - Essendon
"Carwel" is a wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. The house name is written in Old English script above the lamp in the centre of the portico.
The villa is large and stand alone, with its original garage next to it. The clean uncluttered lines of "Carwel", the speed lines around the pedement of the rounded portico, down the chimney and across the facade around the windows, feature bricks in geometric patterns on the portico and the overall low slung design of the house are very Streamline Moderne in design. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful Art Deco sunburst pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass.
The whole property is surrounded by "Carwel's" original low brick wall featuring brick nogging and its original wrought-iron gate.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Modern villas like these were very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1930s saught. Although very fashionable in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.
"Carwel" a Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa - Essendon
"Carwel" is a wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. The house name is written in Old English script above the lamp in the centre of the portico.
The villa is large and stand alone, with its original garage next to it. The clean uncluttered lines of "Carwel", the speed lines around the pedement of the rounded portico, down the chimney and across the facade around the windows, feature bricks in geometric patterns on the portico and the overall low slung design of the house are very Streamline Moderne in design. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful Art Deco sunburst pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass.
The whole property is surrounded by "Carwel's" original low brick wall featuring brick nogging and its original wrought-iron gate.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Modern villas like these were very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1930s saught. Although very fashionable in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.