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The former Times Furnishing store on the High Street, in the city centre of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
Other than a cinema there is little Art-Deco architecture in Birmingham, the former Times Furnishing store is an exception. Designed by architects Burnett & Eprile in 1938, it is now a Waterstones book shop.
An eight-storey modern tower, its height emphasized by tall strips of windows linked by lead panels, their central fins with a kind of cubic billet moulding. Side pilasters with curved tops, and roof canopy floating free.
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Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
Decades' worth of agonized screaming and moaning of people suffering from fatal diseases!, strapped to their beds!, I must get away from this awful place as quickly as possible!
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In downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 26th, 2018, Charity Hospital (erected 1939, closed 2005 after Hurricane Katrina) on the north side of Gravier Street, between Freret Street and Lasalle Street.
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Masterson Building at 4023 West National Avenue in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July 2014. Also known as the Johnston Cookie building.
From the Milwaukee County Historical Society: "By 1920-23, a modern Art Deco manufacturing and office facility was constructed by Herman J. Esser to house all Robert A. Johnston’s operations. A multi-million dollar updating and new research and development center was implemented in the early 1990s. This seven-story building still serves as a key manufacturing plant as well as the company’s corporate headquarters."
Location: 427 S. Boston Ave.
Architect: Edwin Buehler Delk and Keene and Simpson
Completed: 1927
National Register Listed: Yes
Perhaps more than any other building in Tulsa, the Philtower Building is believed by many to have figured in the major decisions affecting the oil and gas industry in the United States. This was particularly true through the 1950's, when many of the most influential of the industry's leaders were either tenants in or visitors to the Philtower.
The building also has architectural signifcance. It represents the late Gothic Revival style embellished with Art Deco details. Among its notable features are its sloping, unusually colorful tiled roof; two gargoyles above the Boston Avenue entrance; a magnificent first-floor lobby with unique chandeliers; and a broad second-floor mall. The generous use of mahogany throughout the building is also striking. Another interesting feature is the carefully preserved office occupied by Waite Phillips. Its beamed ceiling extends upward in an A-frame manner to a height of twenty feet. It boasts richly paneled walls, a small fireplace framed in blue tile, and a private bathroom.
The Philtower was considered strategic in both time and location. It was to have been the link in architectural magnificence between the then-proposed Union Train Station at the north end of Boston, and the soaring Boston Avenue Methodist Church on the south. The building stands much as when it opened in 1928. Its strikingly colorful, sloping, shing-tiled roof still spots the blue night with checkers of yellow.
This small town also has a main street called "Main Street". Most small towns probably had a cinema called "The Regent". The cinema is still a cinema, and not converted to something else, and I like that, but the cartoons have gone as well as the ice creams in trays at half time, but now you can buy a glass of wine instead.
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Old film projector equipment www.electrical-contractor.net/forums/ubbthreads.php/topic... from inside the San Marco Theater - see link on previous few photos -
Here was another of the U.S.'s numerous 1929 art deco skyscrapers. "In the U.S., why, it seems like we've got more 1929 art deco skyscrapers than we've got 1928 and 1930 art deco skyscrapers combined," I have occasionally felt tempted to assert.
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In downtown Youngstown, Ohio, on June 22nd, 2014, on Market Court east of South Hazel Street.
The First National Bank Building, formerly the Metropolitan Tower or Metropolitan National Bank Building, formerly the Metropolitan Savings Bank Building, formerly the Metropolitan Savings and Loan Building, formerly the Central Tower Building or Central Savings and Loan Building, is the tallest building in Youngstown, completed in 1929, 80003146 on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Omaha Union Station at twilight.
Omaha Union Station (1931) was one of the first Art Deco train station in the United States. It closed for rail service in the 1970s and now houses the Durham Museum. Omaha's other passenger train station, the Italianate Burlington Station (1898) also closed in 1974 when a new Amtrak station was built a block or so to the east. The Burlington Station just underwent a major renovation, see this photo set and info.
I've shot the Durham Museum / Union Station a couple other times. See here for full set and here for a blog post featuring shots from December 2015.
This bird adorns the top of a doorway on the Leveque Tower in Columbus, Ohio. The awning had torn and caught on the bird's feathers. I think this bird looks Egyptian, but I saw a modern artists take on a Mayan bird that looked nearly identical to this. I couldn't find any more like him as they had started renovation on much of the lower level of the building.
Like many wonderful single screen theater's today they have had a hard way to go to survive and ultimately go through many changes, and such is the case here.
The NuWilshire Theatre opened in 1931 and was run by Fox until the mid seventies Then the theater was twined and taken over by the Mann theater chain, it was then taken over by the Landmark chain in the early nineties and stayed open until 2007
The theater was then gutted inside to turn it into a retail store and now remains empty,
It still retains it's art deco architecture and marquee but that's about it
Masterson Building at 4023 West National Avenue in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July 2014. Also known as the Johnston Cookie building.
From the Milwaukee County Historical Society: "By 1920-23, a modern Art Deco manufacturing and office facility was constructed by Herman J. Esser to house all Robert A. Johnston’s operations. A multi-million dollar updating and new research and development center was implemented in the early 1990s. This seven-story building still serves as a key manufacturing plant as well as the company’s corporate headquarters."
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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste / Church of St. John the Baptist in Molenbeek, Brussels. By architect Joseph Diongre, 1930.
The construction of the church took only 15 months. This was made possible by the use of reinforced concrete for the structure of the building - a choice dictated by economic concerns. The facade and the 56 m tower are partially covered with white Brauvilliers stone. Inside, parabolic arches bring lightness and space to the nave.
This Art Deco church received protected status in 1984.
The National Hotel
1677 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 532-2311
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Miami Beach Florida
11-24-2010
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An amazing eleven story Art Deco building that was built in 1929 and housed the Desmond department store, this building was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood who also designed the Federal Courthouse in downtown LA........... superb examples of Deco Architecture here in Los Angeles
Title
Symbols - Daytime, 3 rings - Ballantine On Tap and Neon Delicatessen Liquors Sign over Art Deco Storefront, Budweiser Sign, Pointing Finger on Brick Side Wall, Main Street, Kendall Square
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: between 1954-1959
Location
Creation location: Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 72.55
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
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Identifier
KL_001820
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Originally a dancehall on the second floor of a manufacturer of canoes, Dean's Pleasure Boats. In 1932 with new owners, it became "the dancehall" to hear big bands like Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Underwent controversial "renovations" in 2000. Architect: Alfred Chapman.
The Regent is a beautiful art deco hotel on the esplanade of Oban, opposite the pier. It boasts dramatic views across the sea to the Isle of Mull. The hotel is a mixture of classic Victorian and art deco architecture.
The Regent Hotel, Corran Esplanade, Oban, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom PA34 5PZ | 0843 178 7135
www.bespokehotels.com/regenthotel
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The elevator doors on the 10th floor of the Stock Exchange Tower bring you into the City Club and the Diego Rivera mural.
By Paul Manship (1885-1966)
From Lower Plaza, Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center was sponsored by, and named after, John D Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960). The development consists of 14 Art Deco buildings, designed by Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934) and constructed between 1930-39, plus 4 International-Style buildings built in the 1960-70s.
The only project employed 40,000 people, and cost an estimated $250m at the time (this included the acquiring the land and demolishing some existing buildings).
Florin Court aka Whitehaven Mansions in BBC Poirot series. Streamline Art deco building Built in in Charterhouse square by Guy Morgan and Partners in 1936(Smithfield).
Title
South Station - Entrance Arcade Corridor, Patterned Floor, Square Clock, Merchants National Bank of Boston, Rexall Drugs, Display Windows, Main Mall with Lighted Booths in Distance
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: April 7, 1957
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 80.11
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001957
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