Random photo from the archives, Xmas 2015; the fabbo shops in #FaradayStreetCarlton, built 1886, long occupied by #Brunettis before they moved round the corner in 2012. They’re by designer/builder #NormanHitchcock with his characteristic #HighVictorian elaboration, with #cherubs, extra flowery brackets, giant faces, #Corinthian everything, and solid ‘muscular’ details, namely the fat fluted window #pilasters. He did another shop row in 1889 in Smith Street which is very similar, but the pilasters are even fatter! Love it.
Smith Street :
Storey of Melbourne 