10.00am to 3.00pm Castlecrag Shopping Village, Edinburgh Road and The Postern
The Walter Burley Griffin Society will once again have a stall at the biennial fair organised by the Castlecrag Progress Association.
The Society will have on display some knitlock tiles, a concrete building block developed by Walter Burley Griffin and David Charles Jenkins, patented in 1917. The segmental building system was used to build several Griffin designed houses in Castlecrag and a number in Melbourne.
A new book about the fascinating Melson house, designed by Griffin at Rock Crest Rock Glen, Mason City, Iowa, USA, will be for sale. It is titled The Melson House Revealed: An Owner’s Perspective and is by Peggy Bang. Also for sale will be greeting cards with two of Marion Mahony Griffin’s magnificent forest portraits.
The Society’s stall at the Castlecrag Community Fair 2011 with a close-up of the showcase with knitlock tiles and photograph of a knitlock machine used to manufacture the knitlock tiles. The actual machine is on display at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra