Parkville Walk
Join ADMSA for a walk around inner Melbourne suburb, Parkville - Sunday, September 13th 2020 Past Event Purchase walk booklet here
Join ADMSA for a walk around inner Melbourne suburb, Parkville - Sunday, September 13th 2020 Past Event Purchase walk booklet here
Regarding the proposed walking tour of St Kilda scheduled for 28 February, after discussions it was agreed that there was still an element of risk associated with conducting the walk. We regret that the walk will not proceed and has been deferred for a month i.e 28 March. Please join ADMSA Committee members for our next St. Kilda Walking Tour. ...
Vaughan Macefield will explore Clarice Cliff’s work, influences and legacy in his excellent presentation. Join us for this interesting and fun evening as we return to the Racecourse Hotel for our first in-person event for 2022.
Our guest speaker is Fiona Austin, President of Beaumaris Modern. When Fiona, a long-time resident of Beaumaris, saw those buildings she admired were being demolished, she, along with a group of concerned residents, started this community group. Fiona will be sharing her love of this area, its location to the bay, the modernist architecture and its natural landscape. Following her ...
It was a time of sartorial extremes: from the luxury of Hollywood glamour, to the destitution of the Great Depression. Women wore playful, beautiful and colourful clothing which served as an escape from life’s grim realities: a welcome return to femininity, with frills, flounces, bows and curls. Film stars like Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford typified the desired ...
16th World Congress on Art Deco: Modernism - Florida's Hidden Treasures 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, ...
Collecting Art Deco - From fine art to ephemera Guest speaker and ADMSA member, Dr Peter Sheridan AM is an internationally recognised and respected historian, collector and speaker on Art Deco design. Over 25 years Peter and his wife Jan have built a world-class collection of Art Deco pieces from all over the world which highlight the beauty, flamboyance and ...
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. 8.00 pm on Thursday, 2 May 2024 at ...
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). Travancore is described as a remarkably intact area of distinctive interwar ...
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. Mid-century modern architecture sits at the centre of this exploration of the many intersections to be found between art, architecture and design from Palm Springs to Australia. Come ...