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Labassa : house of dreams / Vicki Shuttleworth ; foreward by Barry O. Jones AC.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781743797006
Author	Shuttleworth, Vicki (author)
Title	Labassa : house of dreams / Vicki Shuttleworth ; foreward by Barry O. Jones AC.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Richmond, VIC : Hardie Grant Books, 2020.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2020.
Description	190 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 26 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index.
Summary	Many of Australia’s grand nineteenth-century mansions have been lost, most to the wrecker's pick, others to unsympathetic renovation. By contrast, Labassa mansion has not only survived; it has done so with its opulent 1890s decor largely intact. This book traces the transformation of one of Marvellous Melbourne's most spectacular mansions from its origin as a modest villa to its twentieth-century nadir as a warren of run-down flats. Told here for the first time is the story of how, in 1980, the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) made an eleventh-hour, high-stakes decision to rescue Labassa.
Subjects	Labassa (Caulfield North, Vic.: House)
	Architecture, Domestic -- Victoria
	Interior architecture -- Australia
	Historic buildings -- Victoria -- Melbourne
	Mansions -- Victoria
	Mansions -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons	Jones, Barry, 1932- (writer of foreword)
Call number	2021.070

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
A00921746	2021.070	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .