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Breaking up the facade of Gower Street in more ways than one, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Founded in 1899, the school was based in other locations for its early life. In 1925 a competition was held, to design the Gower Street premises, this was won by Morley Horder and Verner Rees, and the building was opened in 1929.
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.
The Frist is an art museum now days, but it used to be the main post office in Nashville. Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1934.
Nashville, TN
December 2009
This station, which has tracks and platforms underground, was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of a plan to replace Broad Street Station. It was opened on 1930 September 28.
2019 December 24.
Low-pressure sodium lighting casts a monochromatic, yellowish glow that increases the drama of a night shoot, and is especially effective with classic architecture. Do not use without my permission. Visit me on Instagram.
Designed by Robert Atkinson (1883-1952) in the Art Deco style.
Found in Swiss Cottage
The building is decorated with stylised representations of tools and fittings
A hint of the streamline moderne, currently under construction - Princes Park, Prince of Wales Road, Camden
Architect: Malcolm Last
Developer: Union Developments
7 storeys high, holding 55 apartments, scheduled for completion in 2014
George Val Myer's deco Broadcasting House contrasting with John Nash's Regency church, All Souls. Behind it is the Egton Wing of Broadcasting House (initially designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard), with a blue glow beaming up into the sky.
The Northwest Tower in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. Also known as the Coyote Building or The Robey. Located at the intersection of Milwaukee, Damen and North. One of the first Chicago highrises / skyscrapers to be built outside of downtown. This art deco building was completed in 1929. Photo taken August 2022.
Art Deco detail at former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant on Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, March 2014 photo. More Mass. Ave. photos on my main website: davelandweb.com/indy/#mass
By Lee Lawrie
At the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
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).
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When I consider the amount of times I've walked past this corner building, I'm shocked at myself for not photographing it until over 20 years since I've lived in Wolves! It's a lovely 1930s building and next time I'm in town, I must venture inside and ask to take some pics - I've never been in a betting shop before!!
The current building at 99 Kensington High Street was the department store Derry & Toms (a company formed in the 1860s by Joseph Toms and Charles Derry). The store moved into this building in 1932; the Art Deco department store was designed by Scottish architect Bernard George with metalwork by Walter Gilbert (1871-1946).
Derry & Toms closed in 1971, taken over by Biba which opened there in 1973 only to close two years later. The building is still in use by Marks & Spencer amongst others.
NYC. The world's tallest building for 11 months (1930-1931). Designed by William Van Alen.
Designated NYCLPC: Dec. 8, 1976
This is the rear of the hotel--on the banks of the Perfume River. The river is also called the Huong River.
I wanted to see buildings from the 1930s and here was one.
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In downtown Roanoke, Virginia, on May 29th, 2022, the Ponce de Leon apartment building, built in 1931 as the Ponce de Leon Hotel, later known as the Crystal Tower, a "contributing property" in the Roanoke Downtown Historic District (02000978, 07000232 and 13000647 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of Campbell Avenue Southwest (U.S. Route 11) and 2nd Street Southwest.
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