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• Brisbane’s Metro Theatre: A lost Art Deco cinema

  By queenslanddecoproject on December 19, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  This article is the first in a series of posts exploring the lost Art Deco cinemas of Queensland. See also: Earl’s Court Rockhampton and Mackay Civic Theatre From the end of the Depression to the early years of World War Two, cinema building… Read More ›

• Hornibrook Highway: bayside Art Deco

  By queenslanddecoproject on October 4, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Brighton, Brisbane and Clontarf, Redcliffe Peninsula.  This is the full version of an article originally published in the book ‘Brisbane Art Deco: Stories of our Built Heritage’, reproduced here to mark the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Hornibrook… Read More ›

• Miegunyah House Museum: Art Deco fashion collection

  By queenslanddecoproject on September 29, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  It is one thing to read about the Art Deco fashions that graced Queensland streets in the 1920s, but it’s quite another to see the original garments up close. Miegunyah House Museum has brought us this rare chance with its… Read More ›

• Art Deco on show: The Brisbane Ekka

  By queenslanddecoproject on August 12, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Since the inaugural event in 1876, the Brisbane Exhibition (or “Ekka” as it has been affectionately known since 1921) has embraced the dual values of tradition and progress, combining a celebration of the Queensland pastoral story with a curiosity for… Read More ›

• North Gregory Hotel: Art Deco on the outback trail

  By queenslanddecoproject on July 16, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  67 Elderslie Street, Winton The resolve of the Winton community to rebuild the Waltzing Matilda Centre after its loss to a devastating blaze in the early hours of 18 June 2015, brings to mind the story of another Winton building… Read More ›

• Video: Queensland’s Art Deco Town Halls

  By queenslanddecoproject on May 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Welcome to Queensland Deco Project’s first video post! Take a tour of regional Queensland’s magnificent Art Deco town halls built during the 1930s, and enjoy a little jazz music on the road. If you know of other town hall examples in Queensland,… Read More ›

• Styling modernity: the 1920s bob

  By queenslanddecoproject on April 6, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  The Art Deco era ushered in a new, modern taste for the streamlined and geometric, evident in all areas of design from architecture and furnishing to fashion and transport. Hair was no exception and the 1920s saw women across the… Read More ›

• Out of the rubble: Art Deco in North Queensland

  By queenslanddecoproject on February 25, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  Cyclones are an inescapable feature of living in a tropical climate like Queensland. Since 1858, over 208 of these destructive rain and wind storms have lashed the east coast. The environmental, economic and psychological costs to communities, families and individuals… Read More ›

• Dame Fashion: The Queenslander Pattern Service

  By queenslanddecoproject on February 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  For over a decade, at the height of the Art Deco era, The Queenslander news weekly helped city and country women alike keep up with the latest in modern fashion. The Queenslander Pattern Service, which went through various incarnations between… Read More ›

• Bulolo Flats: made for business girls

  By queenslanddecoproject on January 15, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  9 McLachlan Street, Fortitude Valley T.C. Beirne features prominently in local history, as a business leader who brought the modern department store to Queensland, and as a politician in the senate when the state still had an upper house. One of… Read More ›