Architects Simpson Lawson designed the distinctive Baroque-Art Nouveau Emerson
Chambers in 1903. The five storey exuberant facade rises up to an attic floor with a
distinctive copper clad clock at the top of the eastern corner turret. The architectural style
is in sharp contrast to the adjacent Grey Street, but nevertheless is extremely successful
in its application. The building originally contained shops and offices, with a basement
restaurant, all in Art Nouveau style, little of which now remains.

 

Painting size 315mm x 465mm, 2011.