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The palm trees are classic here and you can see more of the detail of the architecture on the building ...so....
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It 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.
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 is one. 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 sign for the former Village Theatre on 2nd Street NW in downtown Faribault, Minnesota. Neon long since removed.
Map of North-West England in what was the children's playroom (now a function room) designed by artist Eric Gill and painted by his son-in-law, Denis Tegetmeier.
Designed in Streamline Moderne style by architect Oliver Hill, with sculptures by Eric Gill, the hotel was built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway and opened in 1933. It finally closed in 1998 and lay derelict until it was restored in 2006-2008 and reopened as a hotel again.
SLC, UT
Still in business as an "art house," the Tower received a streamline-moderne facelift back when those were in vogue.
This was processed in-camera using the D-Lighting function, which after about 6590 shots I decided to try out. I can't remember if the effect was set to low, medium or high, but it's overdone it a bit.
Original CSC_6591
1941, Harold G. Stoner for the Stoneson Brothers real estate development group
see www.examiner.com/x-26565-SF-Architecture-Examiner~y2009m1...
Harold G. Stoner: www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner
I think this hotel was on Washington Street which runs parallel to Collins and Ocean. I like the upkeep aspect.
There were many homeless people sleeping out in Miami Beach's very temperate climate on the beach, in the parks or here on the doorstep of an art deco hotel in rennovation.
El Edificio Carrión, también conocido como Edificio Capitol, es uno de los más conocidos de la Gran Vía madrileña.
El edificio, de catorce plantas, fue construído entre 1931 y 1933. Es de estilo art déco, utiliza materiales como mármol y granito. Pero lo más destacado en su época fueron los adelantos tecnológicos que incorporaba, como el uso de vigas de hormigón tipo Vierendel, la utilización de telas ingnífugas o el sistema de refrigeración, el primero centralizado de Madrid y que ocupaba toda una planta.
El luminoso de neón de la marca Schweppes situado en las plantas superiores es uno de los símbolos de la Gran Vía y de la ciudad y ha aparecido en numerosas películas, como El día de la Bestia.
Pues algo cansado de subir fotos de Roma (todavia me queda alguna jiji) he dicido variar aunque sea solo una, cuando en Octubre paseaba haciendo turismo por la Gran Via, al ver el edificio de la famosa escena del dia de la bestia no me pude resistir a hacerle varias fotos.
1940, Wischmeyer, Arrasmith & Elswick
Redeveloped in 1991: Keys, Condon, Florance, Eichbaum, Esocoff, King
A rare example of Art Deco/Streamline Moderne in Annapolis
The marquee reads "Subway"
I have found no records of this ever having been a movie theater. More likely it was a diner. See the discussion here: www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/406452389/
I haven't seen this view of the Shelborne Hotel's lettering and covered entryway here at flickr. And I caught some other signs off in the distance - Marseilles and The Richmond.
My telephoto really only pixelates these skyscraping towers but I only had one chance to try and get it all ... so ....
Some info and interiors: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/30041887498 These 10 shots uploaded today are best taken together to see how the exact area was used from 1902 to 1937 to present
"Marine Court"
"This art-deco project on the seafront, locally known as 'the Skyscraper', was built to resemble the superstructure of the Queen Mary, a passenger line. In 1937, when it was completed, it housed 153 flats and 3 restaurants. It was the tallest block of flats in the United Kingdom.
In the 1960s it was home to The Cobweb, also known as the Witch Doctor – a nightclub that saw Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and other luminaries play.
Though a listed building, it is in a poor state of repair and awaiting the outcome of planning enquiries. The general condition of the exterior has suffered from the sea air and general neglect; the shop fronts on the ground floor have had their external finishing altered and changed. It has a number of inappropriate modern double glazed, plastic framed windows out of keeping with the original 'Crittall' style frames. Although it may look good from Hastings and the A259, it’s just a shabby block of flats if you look at it from St. Leonards." nicebrighton.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-history-of-st-l...
The times I had to photograph were limited since I was really on a trip to see my Mom in the N. of FL but I enjoyed my early morning walk with less tourists to impede my architectural views. 1450 Collins Ave. Jerry's Famous Deli. Formerly Hoffman's Cafeteria, the Warsaw Ballroom, Club Ovo, and the China Club. Hohauser, 1939.