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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.
in St. Johns Oregon. Many businesses have tried to make a go of this. It was a pizza joint. Not sure what it is nowadays
Among the writings of ONLINE ART DECO ENTHUSIASTS are various assertions that the Wynn Funeral Home (SEEN HERE) was erected circa 1948 as Waples Lumber.
Under the awning, see where fluorescent lights are shining uselessly.
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In Galveston, Texas, on July 16th, 2014, at the southeast corner of Avenue F, a/k/a Church Street, and 32nd Street.
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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA712.5.A7 Art deco (Architecture)—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6115 Funeral homes—United States—Pictorial works.
HD9755 Lumber trade—United States—Pictorial works.
E169.1 Nineteen forties—Pictorial works.
F394.G2 Galveston (Tex.)—Pictorial works.
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Decorative mosaic panels reflect the local industry, coal mining and the miners who extracted the coal. They were the work of Auguste Labouret (1871-1964). Labouret was principally a stained glass artist but he often worked on railway stations, among others, Saint Quentin (also designed by Cassan), Lyon and Saint-Lazare.
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.
45 King William Street, Adelaide CBD
This 12-storey building is architecturally significant for its high quality Romanesque influenced Art Deco detailing, for the singular use of synthetic Benedict stone in external ashlar walling and for the use of the CML Signature style.
Built 1932 - 1937 Architect - Thomas C Pomphrey .... in Art Deco style .... Designed in 1929, built in 1930s & opened in 1941, the R.C. Harris "Palace of Purification" is the largest ensemble of Art Deco buildings in Toronto ....
I was delighted to see this fine example of a Burton shop amongst [mostly unimaginative] 1960s architecture of Hanley town centre, and had time to photograph it before the next town centre bike race I'd gone to watch.
Built 1929 Architect - Roy H Bishop .... in Art Deco style .... The Tip Top Tailors Building, now known as the 'Tip Top Lofts' is a 1920s industrial building & former headquarters of Tip Top Tailers Ltd, a Canadian menswear retailer. Converted into condominium lofts in 2006 by architectsAlliance of Toronto, the conversion included the addition of six stories on the roof. The neon 'Tip Top Tailors' rooftop sign was retained and given a slant ....
Originally built as changing rooms for people bathing in Lake Ontario. The lake proved too cold so in 1925 a swimming pool, nicknamed "The Tank" was added. Architect: Alfred Chapman.
July 8, 2023 - The beautiful Art Deco Parque de estacionamento (parking garage) at R. de Passos Manuel 180 in Porto, Portugal
Gorgeous Art Deco Building. Designed as a Train Station stopped operation in1967. Neglected for almost 2 decades, now completely renovated and houses "Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame" museum.
Architect: R.C. Stephens
Year: 1931
Style: Art Deco
It looks like I was in Tamworth for a sporting event - most likely a town centre circuit race for bikes, from the evidence of barricades and a few spectators. Otherwise, a running event.
As yet, I don't know which street in this historic former capital of the Kingdom of Mercia that this gorgeous building is. I visited the town again in 2010 and missed seeing what had happened to the shop fascia, as Yarnolds is a chain I've not glimpsed for a good many years. There was a branch in my home town of Wolverhampton, though.
I returned to Tamworth in April 2012 and must have missed the building again!
Omaha Union Station, now the Durham Museum, 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.
The tree demonstrates a typical example of a prunejob.
Look at the three bronze panels, each with a design of concentric circles impressed upon it. Keep looking, don't look away.
Ugh the building was the site of a Paul Ryan "constituent services center." Well I'm a consituent and I need for Speaker Ryan to kiss me on my hind end!
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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, a State Farm Insurance office in the former First National Bank Trust Department (built 1933, a "contributing property" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the north side of 6th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32), east of Wisconsin Avenue.
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