20 April 2025

The fabulous Rivoli Theatre at Camberwell Junction, opened in 1940, has the most interesting Art Deco cinema interior left in Victoria. It was designed by cinema specialists Taylor & Soilleux (this is the only one of theirs left), who often did something more than the usual zigzags or waterfall curves – and here there’s curves in different directions, with integrated coved lighting, and unique decoration of overlapping discs – and the ceiling is patterned with an array of circular wheel or flower like things

! It was originally even grander, but was twinned in 1968, so what we have now is just the upper part of the auditorium. Only the close ups are my pics, from 2015.

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