View of the sculptural detail in the building design, Café Australia, Melbourne

Photographer / artist:

not recorded

Copyright:

all rights reserved

Source:

National Library of Australia, Eric Milton Nicholls Collection, PIC/9929/670, Album 1092/3

Architects:

Walter Burley Griffin Marion Mahony Griffin

Subject Date:

Opened 8 November 1916

Image Date:

1916-1919

Type:

b&w photograph

Notes:

Designed by the Griffins for Antony J.J.Lucas at 268-274 Collins Street. Richly detailed and ornamented, Café Australia has been described as “undoubtedly the most handsome café in Australia” (Turnbull and Navaretti p.138).