Original post 25 February 2021:
Great pic of what was originally #BuckleyAndNunn (David Jones since 1988) next to Myer on the mall. They’d been around here since 1851 (!), then built themselves a grand new store in two stages, 1911-12. The architects Bates Peebles & Smart (late #BatesSmartMcCutcheon) just built the same thing twice, but then why not ? Looks fine, and a relative rare for example of #EdwardianBaroque, with those interesting blocky columns, and some delightful mosaic work.
In 1933 they expanded by adding two floors to one half only for some reason, where they kept to a conservative style. Before it was finished they bought the place next door and then built the menswear addition, this time all ‘modernistic’. Both designed again by Bates.
In c2010 they added two more floors to the older part, using just vertical stainless steel, which actually looks fine, neither blank nor standing out, just right.
My photos are from 2018, early photo 1 SLV, c1913, 2 @heraldsunphoto_retro (c1932), sketch of additions from ‘Bates Smart 150 years’, others via Facebook.
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Hi Rohan my memory is that Buckley & Nunn closed in 1982 and there was a brief period of stripping out and it reopened as Devid Jones the same year
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They stripped out the ground floor then, but there were lots of elaborate plaster ceilings on the upper floors, lost in the last renovations (with a permit from HV).
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