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Toorak Melbourne 32 Hopetoun Road $11.5 million-$12.65 million J E N M E LO CCO

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Expressions of interest: Close May 30 Agent: Kay & Burton South Yarra, Grant Samuel 0403 132 095 Sometimes what a place lacks is also one of its greatest assets.

Architect Christopher Doyle has brought his

Take Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. “There are no

trademark classical elegance to this large family

shops, no ATMs and no public transport, and internet and mobile reception

home, set in an exclusive tree-lined street close

is limited,” boasts local agent Martin Schoeddert of Iris Property. At the end

to the village shops. Arched windows frame the

of a hectic week that sounds like the perfect spot for a weekender. Add the

formal living spaces, while the family room and

fact that the area is dotted with properties with cool-climate gardens and

rumpus open to a north-east facing garden and

natural rainforest, it is no wonder that Mount Wilson, which is the subject

pool. Set across 1258 square metres, there is no

of our Living In column, has been the escape of the wealthy for many years.

shortage of space here.

Meanwhile, for those looking for design inspiration for their new home, we have the latest in what will be hot in interiors from the Milan Furniture Fair.

Dana Tomic Hughes of Yellowtrace is just back from the design capital with

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Editor: Jen Melocco Jen.Melocco@domain. com.au Editorial producer: Isabelle Chesher Managing editor: Alice Stolz Senior designer: Colleen Chin Quan Graphic designer: Emma Staughton Group picture editor: Kylie Thomson Proofreader: Nicole Bittar Chief editorial & marketing officer: Melina Cruickshank Residential sales: Queensland Brad McLeod, 0429 571 826 New South Wales Jon McConkey 0407 909 739 Victoria & Tasmania Matthew Maasdijk (03) 9249 5295 Western Australia, South Australia & Northern Territory Jeroen van de Peppel 0427 292 797

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For sale Agent: Ray White Dalkeith-Claremont, Emma Milner 0438 166 894 Reminiscent of the decadent homes that surround Italy’s Lake Como, Villa Dionysus sits among the Swan Valley vineyards. It boasts a wealth of extravagant finishes, from the Venetian marble-dust render to the French walnut timber floors and commercial-grade Gaggenau kitchen. There’s a central courtyard pool and a guest wing.

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Seaforth

Sydney 10 Kellys Esplanade

Sydney 65 Seaforth Crescent

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Agent: Belle Property Lane Cove, Simon Harrison 0433 100 150

Agent: Ray White Lower North Shore,

A quiet weekend fishing off the jetty, a pool party for the kids or a lavish

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dinner prepared in the Gaggenau-appointed marble kitchen? The choice is

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yours at this contemporary waterfront home. The property offers seamless

block, this three-storey home captures views

indoor-outdoor living zones and views from all three levels over the

across Middle Harbour. It has a self-contained

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COURTESY OF JONES

“Milan Design Week proved that our collective interest in contemporary design is on the rise.”

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s the ultimate gathering place for designers, buyers, trend forecasters, media and design enthusiasts, Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week proved that our collective interest in contemporary design is on the rise, with a record amount of shows and visitors last month.

Textured and coloured glass was a recurring theme at the main Furniture Fair, with Glas Italia releasing what was arguably the most coherent collection to come out of the Salone.

Standout pieces include coffee tables by Patricia Urquiola and freestanding screens by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. The Bouroullecs also lent their hand to Wonderglass, for whom they created a sublime collection called Alcova.

Hot on the heels of our obsession with marble,

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travertine is another natural stone to make a comeback, with some standout pieces being the Lazlo table by Philipp Mainzer for e15, and Australia’s own Henry Wilson’s collection presented at Local Design.

Milan-based design agency Studiopepe conceptualised “Club Unseen” – an exclusive members-only club that opened each night, featuring a series of rooms that explored different forms of contemporary living and hospitality. At the heart of the club was the bar – a backlit, custom-geometric screen made from textured glass that turned the “gestures of mixology” into performance art. Each room also demonstrated that ceramic tiles, especially combined with neon lights, can make for the most amazing wall art. Similarly, dirty pastels

mixed with strong accents such as vibrant blue or acid yellow is the hottest colour trend.

Milan’s newest design destination – Six Gallery – is in an abandoned monastery in the Navigli neighbourhood. The hybrid retail and hospitality space showcased an original collection of furniture alongside specially sourced vintage pieces. This earthy and textural interior was all about natural materials, made more arresting with a custom-created ceiling installation for the week, containing 38,000 pieces of wheat strands attached by hand.

In what was easily the week’s most showstopping spectacle, Hermes launched its latest homewares collection inside La Permanente art museum. The space was transformed with towering pavilions clad in more than 150,000

Left ‘Club Unseen’ by Studiopepe, which the Yellowtrace team visited, was an exclusive space that opened each night and showcased a series of rooms exploring contemporary living and hospitality. The members-only, custom-created venue was housed in six rooms of a former warehouse, which highlighted the performance art of mixology mastery.

GLAS ITALIA

Above Glas Italia’s LA Sunset coffee table by Patricia Urquiola. The tabletop, made of laminated glass with an opaline finish, creates the illusion of gas or fluids, concealing the solid nature of the material.

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Above The ever-changing space of Six Gallery in Milan, curated by David Lopez Quincoces and Fanny Bauer Grung, which the Yellowtrace team visited as part of Milan Design Week 2018.

handmade Moroccan zellige tiles. Designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman, the sublime installation shimmered in the most delicate painterly colours.

One of the most cherished experiences for me was visiting Villa Borsani, built in 1943 by architect Osvaldo Borsani for his twin brother, with whom he co-founded the Tecno furniture company. Remaining entirely original, Villa Borsani is a testament to the fact that good design never goes out of style.

It is mind-boggling how much beauty and talent there is in Milan during Design Week.

The tragedy is that one is not able to see – let alone report on – all of it.

Right Wonderglass’s Alcova collection, created by the Bouroullec brothers, is a collection of

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handcrafted objects.

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Above Hermes showcased the latest homewares collection at La Permanente art museum in Milan. Here, 150,000 handmade Moroccan zellige tiles adorned the dramatic, towering pavilions.

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A love of all things botanical connects the community in this tiny town in the Blue Mountains National Park. B y K ATE FARRE LLY It’s the garden enclave of Sydney’s wealthy, an

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Mount Wilson

The Thompsons went to Christ Church College

upper Blue Mountains hamlet home to only a few

in Oxford to study English-style gardening and

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dozen permanent residents.

returned to Mount Wilson, where it took three

$2.6 million-$2.7 million

The NSW Heritage Office describes Mount

years to clear the land before planting could

Wilson, a conservation precinct, as “an Indian-

begin. Highlights of the garden include the

type hill station for a handful of wealthy

evergreen conifers from nearly every continent,

businessmen, lawyers and politicians escaping in

the coloured cherries, and French allee (avenue),

summer from the climate of Sydney and

comprising 40 Alberta spruce trees with a moon

Newcastle”.

gate at one end and fountain in the middle.

With basalt soil supporting richer vegetation

gardens. “Most of the people here are gardeners,

Wilson became a magnet for settlers pining for

it’s what unifies the Mount Wilson community.”

Heritage Office, they planted oaks, elms, pines

Flee the pressures

and beech trees, rhododendrons and cherry

Iris Property agent Martin Schoeddert says the

laurel, birch, maple and tulip trees.

town, alongside neighbouring Mount Irvine, offers

Creating a show-stopping display in spring and autumn, these original gardens have thrived with

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Beverley says the locals share a great love of

than the sandstone-derived soils nearby, Mount England and Europe. According to the NSW

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an escape from modern life.

Agent: Iris Property, Martin Schoeddert

“There are no shops, no ATMs and no public

the involvement of both amateur and

transport, and internet and mobile reception is

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professional botanists. More recent landowners

limited,” he says. “It’s a very popular holiday

The owners have put their heart and soul into the

added their own gardens, creating a small

destination, with great canyons [and] walking

glorious English-style grounds at Bisley, a four-

network of exotic estates surrounded by natural

trails. You can pick your own walnuts and

hectare property with rolling lawns, two lakes,

rainforest and bushland.

chestnuts in season and breathe in the clean air.”

rock gardens, hedges and feature trees. There is

Decades-old project

properties in Mount Wilson, and most are not

living spaces, a two-bed guest house and a barn

Beverley and Graham Thompson, the owners of

primary residences, with owners splitting their

with studio accommodation overhead.

our featured property, have spent 35 years

time between Sydney and the mountains. “It’s a

nurturing their four-hectare garden. “We wanted

place to enjoy real climatic seasonal changes —

to build an English garden and we knew that

even occasional snow — surrounded by national

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Mount Wilson was the right place,” Beverley says.

park, but only two hours from Sydney.”

roads in Mount Wilson.

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Brighton

Future looms large for invisible TV

Victoria 5 Cairnes Crescent $4.7 million-$5.17 million

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s our love affair with truly vast televisions grows, it is surely only a matter of time until someone invents screens that are as big as entire walls. Until such time and, perhaps as a first step, Samsung has introduced the next best thing with its new QLED TV, a screen that can pretend it’s a wall.

It’s a trick called “ambient mode” and it allows you to take a photo of the wall your huge, new 75-inch (190.5-centimetre) TV is largely obscuring, using a smartphone, and display that picture in a seamless fashion on the telly when it’s “off” (or at least in power-saving mode).

Obviously this works best if your snooker-table sized TV (a Q9F 75-incher will set you back $10,499) is mounted on a nice, brick feature wall, creating a look that’s at once fabulously futuristic and disarmingly invisible.

Samsung has been trying to make its televisions disappear for some time, by removing the bezel around the edges, for example, but this really takes it to the next level, as Hass Mahdi, head of audio visual at Samsung

Australia, explains. “Australians tell us they want more than just a screen and they want to redefine the role it plays in the home, and because people want bigger and bigger screens ... they want to look at the aesthetics of having a giant, black hole on the wall,” he says.

The new QLED range, which uses something called “quantum dots” to make the colours more deep and meaningful, also deals with the other big problem for those obsessed with the size of their units. Samsung knows people are increasingly buying TVs that are, realistically, too big for the rooms they’re in, so rather than pointing out how stupid that is, its new technology is all about reducing the distance from which you can watch a massive screen without feeling overwhelmed. “You can now watch a 75-inch television from just 2.5 metres away, which means a spare bedroom could now become the home theatre you never had,” a beamingly optimistic spokesman explains.

It really does add a whole new meaning to thinking big.

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Auction: May 31 Agent: Marshall White Bayside, Andrew Campbell 0419 366 545 There are some walls that are just too lovely to blight with a big TV screen. One such wall is the beautiful, timber-panel-effect wall in the living/ dining area of this stunning five-bedroom Brighton pile. The Samsung’s ‘ambient mode’ would return this wall to its place of prominence, at least when it’s switched off.

The new QLED TV range from Samsung can

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For Sale: $6,950,000 Viewing by Appointment

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4 King Charles Drive Sovereign Islands

Carol Carter 0414 760 305 carol.carter@qldsir.com Paul Arthur 0466 776 700 paul.arthur@qldsir.com

THE STYLE

“Overcomplicated ideas are just that: overcomplicated.

Fall in love with your chosen design and enjoy it.”

CHRIS VASSALLO Founder of Lump Sculpture Studio

PAUL WILLIAMS \ TIM TURNER \ REBEKAH JEWELL

Riffing on heavy metal Chris Vassallo’s sculptural metalwork fuses contemporary design with old-fashioned craftsmanship. B y E LICIA M U RR AY

together when we returned from a trip to Spain. I started Lump in the garage soon after.

Q: Are you personally involved in the entire process, from design to manufacture?

A: I still love being on the tools. It’s been a little over 16 years of collaborating, designing and making and both Tim and I are still very hands-

Q: Tell us about Lump Sculpture Studio

Q: Describe a few of your favourite pieces

on. The crew is now 10-strong. We work between

A: It’s a Melbourne-based design, sculpture and

A: The Lump crew’s favourite installation so far

our manufacturing facility in Fairfield and our

fabrication studio specialising in metalwork. We

has been the Benaraby Project in Queensland,

store and gallery.

derive inspiration from the art world and

otherwise named: It was this big. The sculpture is

contemporary landscape architecture.

a philanthropic gesture from Martin Spinks

Q: Advice for those planning a garden?

celebrating the region’s fishing culture and mining

A: Keep it simple. Overcomplicated ideas are just

Q: What’s the process involved in creating

industry. For another, My Town, we sketched a

that: overcomplicated. Fall in love with your

private commissions?

bird’s-eye view of the family’s local area,

chosen design and enjoy it.

A: Commissions simply begin with an email or a

accentuating places that were special, such as

phone call. We thrive on collaborating with

their home. It has a warmth that engages people

Q: What does your backyard look like?

clients, as well as artists, designers and

and lets the owners tell their story.

A: Small and perfect. We engaged Steve Taylor to

architects, to realise their visions. We host design

Lump Sculpture Studio’s

design and Hamilton Landscapes constructed

consultations at the Lump store and gallery in

Q: Your wife, Timothea Jewell, is Lump’s

the garden. We have a couple of Lump pieces as

Abbotsford. We also regularly develop works

creative director. What came first, the

focal points, but I think my favourite feature is

art and landscaping;

completely via email and over the phone. Some

relationship or the business partnership?

the seat made from the old chimney bricks.

above right: Vassallo,

of our clients provide a detailed brief and some

A: Tim and I met when we were just teenagers.

engage our team for the entire process.

We travelled in our 20s and started living

pieces are inspired by

Jewell and family.

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ANNERLEY 37 Wonderlost Outlook

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5 + BED 4 + BATH 6 CAR + POOL

This rarely seen 1501m2 dual allotment offers presence and sanctuary. Defined living and entertaining areas and five bedrooms are spread across three spacious levels. A lounge with gas fireplace transitions through to the dining room, complete with its own cellar. A modern oversized kitchen sits opposite. A large deck overlooks local area, complete with a kitchenette, custom stainless steel barbeque and speaker system. The capstone of this magnificent residence, a sparkling saltwater pool, comes fully equipped for entertaining with a pool house, barbeque area with kitchenette and powder room.

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Darcy Lord 0427 124 345 Annabelle O’Hare 0418 884 734

32 Jade Place

Pearl Beach

Spacious & spectacular high quality 5 bedroom home!

Nestled in a superbly private and serene position with eye popping views in the sought after sea side enclave of Pearl Beach is this superbly appointed coastal retreat of grand proportions! Offering huge living areas including rumpus room, enormous deck and very large bedrooms with parents retreat this very substantial and thoughtfully comprised home is a rare find indeed! Greet the day with stunning sunrises over the ocean and relax in comfort with all amenities including ducted reverse cycle ducted ac, combustion heater and much more!

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279 West Street, Umina Beach

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Sales Agent: Stuart Gan 0456 786 586 Web:

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