An Art Deco Villa - Ballarat
Standing amid a well maintained garden of trained Japanese maples, ragwart, lavender and roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of white painted bricks with shingled detailing beneath the gable, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, the minimal decoration is typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period. Of particular note is the lack of any stained or leadlight glass in any of the windows, and the wonderful floor to ceiling "waterfall window" to the right of the double front door, which will flood the room with natural light.
This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.
An Art Deco Villa - Ballarat
Standing amid a well maintained garden of trained Japanese maples, ragwart, lavender and roses with a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of white painted bricks with shingled detailing beneath the gable, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, the minimal decoration is typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period. Of particular note is the lack of any stained or leadlight glass in any of the windows, and the wonderful floor to ceiling "waterfall window" to the right of the double front door, which will flood the room with natural light.
This style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.