Vestibule window of a Set of Arts and Crafts Flats - Ballarat
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), a new generation of young people who had survived the war years wanted nothing more than to live their lives in a way that challenged their parents' conventions. They longed for independance and no longer wanted to live in the Victorian and Edwardian villas that were their family homes.
Somewhere like these Arts and Crafts style aprtments in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat would have suited the newly independant young woman or a well-to-do bachelor. With its Arts and Crafts brick detailing, pebble-dash wall treatment and large windows, this small block of boutique flats would have been light filled and comfortable, as well as being spacious enough to create a new kind of gracious living, without the need of a retinue of servants.
This block with its brickwork, angular roofline and leadlight windows is typical of the post war Arts and Crafts movement that came out of England.
Vestibule window of a Set of Arts and Crafts Flats - Ballarat
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), a new generation of young people who had survived the war years wanted nothing more than to live their lives in a way that challenged their parents' conventions. They longed for independance and no longer wanted to live in the Victorian and Edwardian villas that were their family homes.
Somewhere like these Arts and Crafts style aprtments in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat would have suited the newly independant young woman or a well-to-do bachelor. With its Arts and Crafts brick detailing, pebble-dash wall treatment and large windows, this small block of boutique flats would have been light filled and comfortable, as well as being spacious enough to create a new kind of gracious living, without the need of a retinue of servants.
This block with its brickwork, angular roofline and leadlight windows is typical of the post war Arts and Crafts movement that came out of England.