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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.
The historic Police Apartments (gotta recheck that name) - have the coolest stairways in all of Shanghai. Check out the one at left.
Cool brick patterns. Too bad the elevated highway to the right (above Chengdu Rd), the trees, and the huge billboard on the roof, prevent us from getting a good unobstructed view of this unique building.
I have several more photos I'll post over the coming days. There is an interior courtyard with another beautiful stairway, exterior hallways, tons of bicycles and laundry, and twin garbage chutes. All nicely maintained with no signs of "renovation".
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Department Store (1938-40) by S.W. Ackroyd, Powis St, Woolwich.
Photo taken on a walk around Woolwich with the 20th Century Society on 6th October 2012.
There is a rather small, blurry back & white photo of the Winter Haven's lobby in my lobby shot of the Crescent here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3005189635/
Night time view of The Peacock Public House which is situated in Ibex House on the historic 'Minories' street in the Aldgate area of the City of London in London (UK).
The art deco streamline moderne 'Ibex House' opened in 1937 and is a Grade II listed building while I suspect The Peacock dates from much later.
The back of this historic art deco building after a 2007 renovation is way cool.
Designed (1935) by Leonard, Veysseyre, and Kruze.
Adrian Smith's Rockefeller Center-inspired NBC Tower in Chicago (1989) harkens back to the Art Moderne style of the 1930's.
"This wonderful house is in Saltdean, near Brighton on the south coast of England.
It is now called Bethany but in a former life was know as Bedford and according to 'The Ocean Hotel, Lido and the War' at www.saltdean.info, the house was central to The Saltdean Fellowship, a self-help residents organisation whose objectives were 'tending to casualties, helping the homeless destitute through war and organizing first aid and home nursing classes and also organising working parties for providing required items by the fighting and mercantile services, providing social functions and to generally promote a sense of community spirit'.
Bethany, Saltdean'Most Fellowship meetings were held at 'Bedford', now 'Bethany' in Arundel Drive West, home of Mrs Hill, and over 5 years mountains of garments (1626 woolens alone) were sent for dispatch to the services, Merchant Navy and the blitzed people of Britain and Russia. On 25 November 1940, Miss Margaret Hardy returned to 'Bedford' to a sale of household goods, garments and fancy leather work which sold so quickly that when a reporter from the Herald arrived halfway through the day most of the goods had gone. This raised a huge £56 for deserving causes'." artdecobuildings.blogspot.com/2009/04/
A very cool, renovated original design of the Clevelander pool & lounge :>)) The last time I was in South Beach in 2008, this classy hotel was under renovations so I didn't take but 1 photo.
It seems hard to believe that this old Greyhound terminal in DC is still there. The office tower recently added to the back attempts to incorporate a slight moderne feel to it as well.
Here's the newly painted structure with toilets across the street from the three similar original bus shelters all in a row in front of the Royal Pavilion. (I knew about these remaining art deco streamline moderne bus shelters from the 1930's because I stumbled upon them near the Royal Pavilion last visit to Brighton in 2007. They were in better shape 6 years ago, maybe they just need some love and a new coat of paint. The one across the street that houses a public toilet soon to be opened is in better condition but is it as old? Here's the photo from 6 years ago to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/518057116 "Further south on Old Steine, on the other side of the road, is a larger tram shelter (also Grade II listed) which incorporates public toilets as well, but the design is very similar (it now houses a cafe). Intriguingly however, the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society claims it has evidence from the archives of Brighton Corporation’s Land and Works Committee that English Heritage got its facts all wrong. The Society says the larger shelter dates from 1936, while the three smaller ones were built much later, in 1950, to match the earlier shelter. In that case they never served Brighton’s trams at all, but rather their trolleybus replacements." thebeautyoftransport.com/2013/09/11/gimme-stylish-shelter...
Construcción del Edificio Veroes (Arq. Gustavo Wallis). Esquina Veroes, Av. Urdaneta con Boulevard Panteón. Caracas
A very cool, renovated original design of the Clevelander pool & lounge :>)) The last time I was in South Beach in 2008, this classy hotel was under renovations so I didn't take but 1 photo.
Extremely art deco but that is appropriate since it is a museum of art deco ephemera and details. You may find better info online but they do have a site: www.wolfsonian.org
Another view of the spiral staircase, inside the De La Warr Pavillion. This first floor viewpoint also shows the pergodas on the prom and the sea beyond. Ref: D169-054
This hotel was a different name and a different color when I photographed it in 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3032306018/
Opened in 1939 this iconic Los Angeles building has been a major passenger rail terminal and transit station ever since, I shot a series of photos, mostly of the beautiful Mission/Deco Style interior and this is the fifth image of that series.
To read more about this amazing train station terminal check this link:
Architects; Welch & Lander, 1931.
Greatly influenced by Charles Holden during the golden age of transport architecture in London. Apparently Lander worked for Holden before starting his own practice.
The Greyhound Station is one of the city’s best examples of the Streamline Moderne style, with its rounded corner, curved canopy, and ribbon windows on the upper level. This popular style of the 1930s and 1940s was meant to express movement and speed, and the building matched the styling of the company’s busses during that period. Architect: W. D. Peugh
Architect: Charles Holden, 1933, reinforced concrete, Cornish granite and steel-framed glazing. Circular underground station in the Streamline Moderne Art Deco style. The design of the exuberant roof finial was adopted from the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, according to English Heritage. Regarded as one of Charles Holden's best underground stations and Grade II* listed. London Borough of Enfield.
The posh guests were out early (or never went in :>) talking on their cell phones and except only one is holding a cell phone, they could have been texting each other as that seems to be common in the same space these days! Their postures and attire are a type of communicating as well -
Capitman Award for 1998 on the interior design work renovating the Hotel Astor on Washington Ave. in South Beach Miami Beach Art Deco Historical District.
The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex (UK) is a Grade I listed modernist art deco gallery and auditorium. This is a spiral art deco staircase inside.
The Pavilion was built in 1935 and designed by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff.
Nice shot by David on his travels and posted here with very kind permission.
The Lofts at Hollywood and Vine features an interesting neon sign. What caught my eye is the small Capitol Records building replica at the top which progressively blinks on and off in red and yellow neon. ♫ Anybody know what this building was originally? It looks like it may have been built in the 1920's or '30's. The neon sign is new.
The Camberwell Police Station and Court House Complex on the Corner of Camberwell Road and Butler Street in the Melbourne eastern suburb of Camberwell, was designed by Public Works Department architect, Percy Edgar Everett (1888 - 1967).
The complex was built by W. A. Medbury between 1938 and 1939. in the Streamline Moderne style which had been influencing Australian architecture since its first appearance in the early 1930s. The complex is set on a diagonal axis. The buildings are constructed of red, brown and manganese bricks and contain Percy Everett's trademark pattern detailing.
The complex still retains a law enforcement function to this day, as the court house is now used for Administrative Appeals Tribunals and the police station still functions.
Percy Everett's other architectural works include; the Fairfield Club House in 1934, the Essendon technical School in 1939 and the Russell Street Police Headquarters in 1942 and 1943.
The Robert Silhan Home in Berwyn (1936). It is an unusual example of a small Streamline Moderne residence; most residences in this style were much larger.
We stopped in Virginia, Minnesota on our way up to Ely in July. There on one of the main streets through town was the Maco Theater building (now the Cornerstone Family Church). One tidbit on Cinema Treasures revealed that the Maco was designed by the Minneapolis-based firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan and opened in 1938 in Streamline Moderne style, a late form of Art Deco. Liebenberg & Kaplan is the same architectural firm that designed the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis.
Here's a link to a vintage photo of the main street through Virginia, Minnesota. The Maco Theater marquee is in the distance. cinematreasures.org/theaters/8141
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Droid Shots
Virginia, Minnesota
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ARCHIVE 365: Since the completion of BlackBerry 365 in 2010, I have missed a daily photo practice. There are so many photos from my archives that no one has ever seen but me. So I asked skywire7 if she wanted to do a daily practice for one year, taking turns posting an unpublished photograph from the past.
Archive 365 is a photo collaboration between skywire7 and QuoinMonkey featuring images from our archives. We will alternate posting once a day in our Flickr sets from July 1st 2012 through June 30th 2013. You can view our photographs at skywire7 Archive 365 set on Flickr and QuoinMonkey Archive 365 set on Flickr.
Swing-a-Way Manufacturing Company
St. Louis, MO
Now for sale. K. Palace says they made very fine can openers.