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Mitchell House is an Art-Deco building designed by architect Harry A. Norris (1888-1966) in 1936 for businessman Thomas Mitchell and draws upon the designs of German architect Erich Mendelsohn.
Norris is considered one of the most prominent Australian architects of the inter-war period and his works have often shown a great awareness of developments in American architecture at the time, where he spent several years studying and working. His most famous client was G.J. Coles, for whom he designed a number of stores in Victoria and NSW. In fact it was through the Coles Brothers that Norris first encountered the Art Deco and Moderne styles, when they sent him in 1929 to America and Europe to study retail store design and construction.
Among Norris' other designs are Burnham Beeches, Nicholas Building on Swanston Street, Majorca Building in Flinders Lane, G.J. Coles Building on Bourke Street and Vice-Chancellor's House at the University of Melbourne.
The problem with Network 10s latest offering is that it is a good forty years out of date. The age of nuns in habits seeking sexual liberation has long been forgotten and replaced by an age of nuns without habits seeking clerical domination.
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