Join us for our final guided walk of 2024 exploring the leafy streets of South Yarra. This pleasant stroll will take in the many Moderne and Art Deco apartments and buildings between the Royal Botanic Gardens and Fawkner Park. Click here for more information and bookings.
Presentation – Modern Heritage, 15 August 2024 @ 8.00 pm
Join us as author of Modern Heritage, Cameron Bruhn takes us on a deep dive into Art Deco properties featured in the book followed by a Q&A session. Click here for more information and bookings.
Walking Tour – Modernist Melbourne, City East, 28 July 2024 @ 10.30 am
Join us for a tour of Modernist Melbourne in the east of the CBD, where we’ll see many buildings that show the significant changes made to the built environment of central Melbourne in the post WW2 period. Click here for more information and bookings.
Presentation – Lost in Palm Springs, 11 July 2024 @ 8.00 pm
Come along and hear from Dr Greer Honeywill is the author of Lost in Palm Springs and curator of the national touring exhibition Lost in Palm Springs,currently at the Art Gallery of Ballarat until 1 September 2024. Past Event
Walking Tour – Travancore, 30 June 2024 @ 10.00 am
The small inner-city suburb of Travancore was established by the subdivisions of a large pastoral estate in 1918 and the early 1920s. The area is bounded by Mount Alexander Road, Flemington Street, Baroda Street and the Moonee Ponds Creek and looked up to Royal Park (before the Tullamarine freeway). Past Event
Presentation – Industrial Designers and Art Deco Design – 2 May @ 8.00pm
Collector, photographer and author, Peter Sheridan explores the input of industrial designers to the Art Deco style, highlighting the work of Walter Dorwin Teague and Isamu Noguchi in the 1930s. This is a brand new lecture with fascinating insights into the story of Art Deco and images of pieces rarely seen. Thursday 2 May at Caulfield RSL, 4 St Georges …
Art Deco and Modernist Calendar 2024
The 2024 ADMSA Calendar – Collecting Art Deco Cost is $20 (pick-up/at events) or $25 (including postage within Australia). Overseas price available on application. Click to download the 2024 ADMSA Calendar Order Form Thank you for your support!
Post 2023 World Congress Presentation – 20 July 2023
The 16th World Congress on Art Deco: Modernism – Florida’s Hidden Treasures was held in April 2023. Attendees were treated to a celebration of Art Deco and Modernism that included guided tours, lectures, exhibits and events highlighting the early 20th Century architectural history and design treasures of Central Florida, Miami/Miami Beach and Palm Beach. ADMSA members will share their highlights, photographs and memories of …
Name Change
At the Annual General Meeting in October 2016, members voted to change the name of our society to Art Deco & Modernism Society of Australia, inc. (ADMSA) reflecting the fact that we have members from right across the country.