2 matches for National Gallery of Victoria, themes: 'built environment'
Diverse state (14) Aboriginal culture (5) Built environment (2) Creative life (8) Immigrants and emigrants (1) Land and ecology (1) Local stories (3) Sporting life (1)-
Young and Jackson Hotel
... bar. The following section showcases a sequence of letters to the Argus Newspaper at the time of the exhibition of Chloe at the National Gallery of Victoria....This cabinet photograph was probably taken for sale and distribution at the time controversy raged over Chloe’s presence in the National Gallery of Victoria. Photographic print on cabinet card ...The Young and Jackson Hotel, built in the 1850s, is one of Australia's most well known hotels. It was built, as the Princes Bridge Hotel, on part of an allotment originally purchased by John Batman in 1837.
Young and Jackson were both born in Dublin, and "chummed together" to New Zealand chasing the Otago gold deposits in 1861. It is not known when they came to Victoria, but they purchased the lease on the Princes Bridge Hotel in 1875.
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Open House Melbourne
Modern Melbourne
... Collaboration between Robin Boyd and Mary and Grant Featherston on the furnishings and fit out of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) offices. ...Modern Melbourne is a series of filmed interviews and rich archival material that documents the extraordinary lives and careers of some of our most important architects and designers including Peter McIntyre, Mary Featherston, Daryl Jackson, Graeme Gunn, Phyllis Murphy, Allan Powell and Peter Elliott.
Melbourne’s modernist architects and designers are moving into the later stages of their careers. Their influence on the city is strong and the public appreciation of their early work is growing – they have made an indelible mark on Melbourne. Much of their mid-century modernist work and latter projects are now represented on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Many of the Modern Melbourne subjects enjoyed a working relationship and a friendship with Robin Boyd, the influential architect who championed the international modernist movement in Melbourne.