This set of drawings by Lee Weng Fatt shows two different architectural styles of Pre-War Straits Eclectic buildings modified for commercial purposes. One in Petaling Street is three stories, with a balustrade on the second-floor frontage, while the two-storey Jalan Pudu Lama buildings, has the Art Deco style preferred by businesses at one time. Some of these buildings have been torn down because of redevelopment or safety reasons, while for those that survived, the interiors are cannibalized for modern business convenience, leaving only the old facades.
Lee Weng Fatt is a Kuala Lumpur kid, graduating with a Diploma in Art & Design at the Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1989. He started painting in watercolours before switching to oil in 1995. His first solo was at the Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, called Harng Kai/Jalan Jalan in 1994, then at other venues in Kuala Lumpur like Joshua Fine Art Gallery (2000), Art House (2004) and TJ Fine Art (2010).