A Streamline Moderne Villa of Red and Brown Bricks - Coonans Hill
Built in a ribbon development along a tramline during the late 1930s, this red and brown brick Streamline Moderne Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Coonan's Hill is much newer than some of the Edwardian houses around it.
The villa is relatively free of decoration, save for some Jazz Age style feature bricks that appear above the windows and the enclosed vestibule entrance and run in a continuous line around the house mid way along the walls. The simple design of the villa, the squareness of the vestibule entrance and the geometric leadlight glass patterns in the windows are typical of the uncluttered lines of Australian Art Deco architecture in the late 30s, just before the Second World War. The house also features retractable striped awnings above its principal windows and above the left-hand side vestibule entrance - a must have piece of 1930s protecton to keep the villa cool in the heat of Australian summers before the general use of air conditioning.
The whole house is surrounded by a well kept garden with trimmed lawns, camelias, standard roses, exotic palms and neat topiaried hedges.
A Streamline Moderne Villa of Red and Brown Bricks - Coonans Hill
Built in a ribbon development along a tramline during the late 1930s, this red and brown brick Streamline Moderne Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Coonan's Hill is much newer than some of the Edwardian houses around it.
The villa is relatively free of decoration, save for some Jazz Age style feature bricks that appear above the windows and the enclosed vestibule entrance and run in a continuous line around the house mid way along the walls. The simple design of the villa, the squareness of the vestibule entrance and the geometric leadlight glass patterns in the windows are typical of the uncluttered lines of Australian Art Deco architecture in the late 30s, just before the Second World War. The house also features retractable striped awnings above its principal windows and above the left-hand side vestibule entrance - a must have piece of 1930s protecton to keep the villa cool in the heat of Australian summers before the general use of air conditioning.
The whole house is surrounded by a well kept garden with trimmed lawns, camelias, standard roses, exotic palms and neat topiaried hedges.