4 February 2018:
Rather nice #ArtDecobuilding at 434 #ClarendonStreetSouthMelbourne, 1939. It was built for A Wassalieff (hence the AW), an engineering firm established in #SouthMelbourne in 1918, still there into the 50s. And in 1938 the Russian Chess Club changed its name to the South Melbourne Chess Club and met here, ‘at Mr Wassalieff’s premises’. So he was probably Russian, possibly Jewish, and presumably left before (or maybe because of) the 1917 Russian revolution. Mr & Mrs W also seemed to go to every charity ball in South Melbourne in the 30s and 40s. Date of construction from Art Deco & Modernism Society.
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Storey of Melbourne 