Art Deco Buildings: 141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Friday, October 14, 2011

141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

An Art Deco building at 141-143 Flinders Lane in Melbourne adapted for a variety of uses including a gallery and a restaurant.

5 comments:

HelsOctober 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM
Now this is a building that I walk past quite often, but had never thought much about the style of architecture. I suppose that is because the external decorative elements are minimal, and I cannot guess at the date.
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David ThompsonOctober 15, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Helen, I too have often walked past this building and not paid any attention to it until late last year I when to see an exhibition there and noticed some deco features.

I agree it is hard to date but given the minimal decoration I would guess late 1930s or perhaps even after that.
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heritagpolicemanJuly 5, 2012 at 1:07 PM
I know it rather well as I had a studio in the roof space (former caretakers flat perhaps ?) in the late 80s and early 90s. Its also in the current '99 buildings' about to be listed by the City of Melbourne, which gives its date as 1935 and the designers as the prolific Tompkins Bros. The lobby is great with terrazzo and coloured tiles and even the lift car is more or less intact. Sadly the chromed steel letters 'Pawson House' and one set of numbers that once stretched across the doorway have gone one by one - only '143'on the right hand side is left
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WendyJune 5, 2014 at 11:08 AM
My great-aunt and her husband, Jack Daniels, were importers in the 1920s and had an office on the first floor. In the 1950s, my father started his perfumery business in that office. Many happy memories
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