Physical description
Colour slide in a mount. Shipwreck Coast, Great Ocean Road, Victoria
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Colour slide in a mount. Shipwreck Coast, Great Ocean Road, Victoria
Final account for the construction of 290 Walsh Street from the builder John Murphy. This document is owned by the Murphy family and was provided to the Robin Boyd Foundation for digitisation.
Final account for the construction of 290 Walsh Street.
This wrought iron "ladder-frame" bookcase is located in Penleigh's bedroom. A second "ladder-frame" bookcase with a drop-down table is located in Suzy's bedroom (item F096). They were both designed by Bruce Anderson - in the past they have been incorrectly attributed to Clement Meadmore. This type of furniture was featured in The Age Small Homes Service and a similar one was featured in 'The Age' Dream Home Exhibition in 1955. From 1947 to 1953, Robin Boyd was the director of The Small Homes Service, set up by the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects in conjunction with "The Age' and he produced a weekly article for 'The Age'.
Wrought iron black frame with 10 ladder slots, and 3 cross brace frames, with 6 timber shelves. Shiny metal feet, nothing covering top of metal frame.
bruce anderson, walsh st furnishings, robin boyd, small homes service
Robin Boyd met architect Neil Clerehan at the end of 1943 when they were both in the army. They worked together on Victorian Small Homes Service and were friends.
Watercolour of a mining building in an outback landscape.
On the reverse side "Neil Clerehan, 1945" on top left in blue pen, and "No 8" on bottom right in pencil.
neil clerehan, robin boyd, ohm2022, ohm2022_29
Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location.
Made in Australia / 25 / MAY 69M2
robin boyd, slide
Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.
Colour slide in a mount. Paley Park, 3 E 53rd Street New York. Early example of a NYC “Pocket Park”. (Architects: Zion Breen Richardson landscape architects.)
Made in Australia / 23 / JUL 69M2
slide, robin boyd
Penleigh Boyd, Robin and Patricia Boyd's son, writes “Prior to 1950 Robin, like most other amateur or hobby photographers, took black and white printed photographs. The oldest slides date from 1950 when Robin and Patricia travelled to Europe on Robin’s Robert Haddon Travelling Scholarship.” In 1948 Robin Boyd was awarded ‘joint first place’ in the Robert Haddon competition for his design of Mildura art gallery. The scholarship helped fund their first overseas trip. Robin and Patricia were passengers on the Greek ship “Cyrenia” departing in May 1950, passing through the Suez Canal and landing in Genoa five weeks later. For six months, they travelled extensively throughout Europe (predominantly driving themselves) - France, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.
Colour slide in a mount. Doge's Palace, Venice, Italy
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haddon travelling scholarship, haddon, robin boyd, slide
Colour slide in a mount. Newspaper real estate advertisement, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia
Made in Australia / Encircled 1 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Image from a magazine of the interior, apartment, Quamby flats, Glover Court, Toorak, 1940-1. (Architect: Roy Grounds.)
Made in Australia / G9 (Handwritten) / 17 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Image of the plan of a 14th century stone building, location unknown
Made in Australia / 4 (Handwritten) / 4 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Peter and Dione McIntyre House, Kew 1955. (Architects: Peter and Dione McIntyre.)
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slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. House, unknown location, possibly California, USA
Made in Australia / 10 / JUL 65(?)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, regional Australia
Made in Australia / 16 / SEP M6
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Magazine image of Sarasota High School Dining Room perspective (1958-1960), Sarasota, Florida. (Architect: Paul Rudolph.)
Encircled 19 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Coastline, possibly Queenland, Australia
Made in Australia / 12 / DEC 68M8
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Streetscape Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Made in Australia / 35 / JUL 69M / Encircled 2A (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
In April-May 1971, Robin and Patricia Boyd travelled to Honolulu, east coast USA and London. In London he was one of the judges for the Commonwealth-wide entries for the redevelopment of Whitehall and the Palace of Westminster. He was also researching overseas libraries, as background for plans for a new State Library of Victoria.
Colour slide in a mount. Barbican Centre, London, England, 1965-76. (Architects: Chamberlin Powell & Bon.)
Made in Australia / 21 / AUG 71M1
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Streetscape Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Made in Australia / 31 / JUN 67M6 / Encircled 18 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. War veterans housing, location unknown, Australia
Made in Australia / 8 / MAY 64M / Encircled 31 (Handwritten) / Encircled 11 (Handwritten) / War Vets Housing (Handwritten) / See also No 2 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Kentuck Knob (Hagan House) Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania, USA, 1956 . (Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright .)
Date: 04819 / Subject / Encircled 29 (Handwritten) / C (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Robin Boyd travelled to the USA and Britain for several weeks. He attended the opening of the new Australian Chancery in Washington DC, where he had designed an innovative exhibition with cylindrical display cases and sound recordings.
Colour slide in a mount. Streetscape, Washington DC USA
Made in Australia / 11 / JUL 69M6
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Bluestone homestead, Western District, Victoria
Mount Made in England
slide, robin boyd
In 1964, Robin and Patricia Boyd spent several weeks on a world tour - Boyd took a leading role at the International Design Conference in Aspen and he also visited Chicago, Yale University, and New York’s World Fair. The Boyds then travelled on to England, Finland (especially to see Tapiola), Russia and India to see Le Corbusier's Chandigarh, and also Hong Kong and Thailand.
Colour slide in a mount. Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England, 1956-62. (Architect: Basil Spence.)
Made in Australia / 17 / AUG 64M
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Pfitzenmaier House, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1953. (Architects: Hayes and Scott.)
11 / 46 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Robin Boyd was invited to be a judge on the AIA-Sunset Western Home Awards Program (see correspondence item D416). Robin and Patricia Boyd travelled to California in July 1965. They also visited Japan.
Colour slide in a mount. United Savings and Loans Building, Los Angeles, California, USA. (Architect: Welton Beckett.)
Made in Australia / 30 / JUL 65M
california, slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. View of sea, unknown location
Made in Australia / 34 / JUL 69M2
slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Abstract design
Made in Australia / 19 / MAY 68M5
slide, robin boyd
This house won the Victorian Architecture Medal for the RAIA’s Best House Of The Year in 1965.
Colour slide in a mount. The Williams House (1963), 4 Glenard Drive, Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia. (Architect: Charles Duncan.)
Made in Australia / 30 / JAN 65M / House, Glenard Drive, Ivanhoe (Handwritten) / Charles Duncan
melbourne, slide
Colour slide in a mount. Low rise apartment blocks, possibly suburban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Made in Australia / 6 / JUN 67M6 / Encircled 27 (Handwritten)
slide, robin boyd
Robin Boyd has written 'Australiana' on the slide mount (item S1081) at the same location. Robin Boyd was always on the lookout for signage and blots on the landscape, especially when writing and illustrating his 1960 book, “The Australian Ugliness”.
Colour slide in a mount. Flats, Australia
Made in Australia / 14 / AUG 65M / Encircled 31 (Handwritten)
australia, slide, robin boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Coastline, possibly Queenland, Australia
Made in Australia / 20 / DEC 68M8
slide, robin boyd
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