A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland Art Deco Villa can be found in a quiet, tree lined street the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned, the stand alone villa with white painted stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves, above the windows and around the enclosed vestibule was very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted. The villa features panes of leadlight glass set in geometric "Jazz Age" patterns in the smaller windows to either side of the larger central panel - a design very popular amongst those who could not afford to have all their windows set with ornamental glass.
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. A villa like this may have required the employment of a "daily" woman to assist the mistress of the house with any heavy chores to keep the villa well maintained.
A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland Art Deco Villa can be found in a quiet, tree lined street the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned, the stand alone villa with white painted stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves, above the windows and around the enclosed vestibule was very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted. The villa features panes of leadlight glass set in geometric "Jazz Age" patterns in the smaller windows to either side of the larger central panel - a design very popular amongst those who could not afford to have all their windows set with ornamental glass.
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. A villa like this may have required the employment of a "daily" woman to assist the mistress of the house with any heavy chores to keep the villa well maintained.