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BEACHSIDE LUXURY Sur f, sand and new horizons
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Mosman Sydney 28 Noble Street $5 million-$5.5 million J E N M E LO CCO
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For sale Agent: The Agency North, Nic Yates 0430 772 253 I drive my partner just a little bit crazy when we do Sydney’s Bondi to
A generous display of marble, including fireplaces
Bronte walk and I utter in wonder: “How lucky are we to live here, when for
and central kitchen island along with beautifully
most of the world being at the beach is just a two-week-a-year occasion.”
preserved period details make this Federation
It’s not that he doesn’t agree with me (he does), it’s just that I can’t help
gem a standout. Surrounded by superbly
but repeat this every time we do the walk. Nigel Marsh, author, speaker
manicured gardens, the home includes a pool
and chief executive of branding agency West 82nd, has lived in Bronte since
and studio retreat, and a bookcase-lined study
arriving in Sydney from London in 2001. He feels much the same about this
inside the main residence.
patch of the harbour city. “I’ve never moved more than 500 yards from that first house. I want to die here,” says Marsh in our Living In column, which this week features the beachside suburb. Meanwhile, our feature story looks at
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a magnificent series of buildings on a unique property owned by former
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mining executive Andy Plummer in the Byron Bay hinterland.
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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 Chief executive officer: Jason Pellegrino Residential sales: Queensland Brad McLeod, 0429 571 826 New South Wales Belinda Sinclair 0414 580 903 Victoria & Tasmania Mitch Armstrong 0438 820 767 Western Australia, South Australia & Northern Territory Jeroen van de Peppel 0427 292 797
HOT PROPERTY
DESIGN DIGEST Wildly imaginative
FEATURE STORY Creativity grows
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O U R COVE R 6/5 Pavilion Street, Queenscliff
APARTMENT LIFE The height of luxury
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Queenscliff Sydney 6/5 Pavilion Street $5.76 million-$6.4 million
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Auction: May 8 Agent: Belle Property Manly, Anthony Calacoci 0406 314 188 Sitting atop Aquilam, a new boutique building of six whole-floor apartments, this oceanfront penthouse makes the most of the breathtaking coastal views. There‘s a marble kitchen, designer bathrooms, oak floors and a gas fireplace, plus a smart-home system and ducted airconditioning.
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Toorak
Nedlands
Melbourne 63 Hopetoun Road
Perth 58 The Avenue
$6.5 million-$7 million
$5.6 million-$5.9 million
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For sale: By expressions of interest
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Agent: Marshall White Stonnington, Richard Mackinnon 0414 822 579
Agent: Duet Property Group,
This elegant home in one of Toorak’s best boulevards is located close
Michelle Kerr 0412 770 743
to elite schools, shops and transport. It comes with a large formal lounge
This elegant home has borrowed its design
with fireplace and an adjoining formal dining room. The open-plan casual
cues from Europe while serving up soothing
living spaces include a modern stone-topped kitchen.
views of the Swan River from both levels.
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A N UNR IVA L L E D A R R IVA L AUSTRALIA’S PREMIUM BEACHFRONT RESIDENCES 3—5 BEDROOM RESIDENCES PRICED FROM $3.25 MILLION — $14 MILLION Saint Moritz is its own extraordinary world. From the first arrival experience to a late-night airport pick-up using Australia’s first residential in-house personal driving service, every courtesy and amenity is in place to anticipate and exceed every expectation. Call today for a VIP preview of the display gallery before public launch. SAINT MORITZ SALES CONCIERGE — 0488 966 060 SAINTMORITZ.COM.AU
TH E WOR LD AWA ITS Preview by SAINT MORITZ HEAD CONCIERGE
ABOVE Artist impression of Saint Moritz porte cochere. RIGHT Saint Moritz will offer Australia’s first residential in-house personal driver service.
THE ROLE OF HEAD CONCIERGE AT SAINT MORITZ IS A RARE PRIVILEGE. Seldom does the opportunity
arise to handpick a global team, with the intent and passion, to further refine the exceptional suite of services offered in the world’s finest residential buildings and luxury hotels. Our neighbours, such as Donovans, The Stokehouse, Prince Hotel and Hotel Esplanade, are all continually raising the international bar in regard to hospitality with that refreshing St Kilda authentic character. Embracing this inimitable style and natural verve, we are seeking to further enhance every lifestyle experience of every resident—both within and beyond Saint Moritz. Being so close to the water, in a location with much of the flavour of Cannes and Miami, certainly adds to the allure.
From the first arrival experience to a late-night airport pick-up using Australia’s first residential in-house personal driving service, every courtesy and amenity is in place to anticipate and exceed every expectation. To complement the dedicated valets and housekeeping staff, relationships have been established with many internationally recognised luxury lifestyle professionals. Imagine rare wine selection and curated art collection, private chef catering, individual wellness program creation or shopping with a stylist to the stars. As we head towards the future, we’ve never been better placed to deliver to the world the diversity and richness of St Kilda life at its unrivalled best.
DESIGN DIGEST
The natural Celebrate the makers who are creating collections inspired by natural beauty. C o m p i l e d b y PAU LIN E M O RRIS SE Y QUINTESSENCE Northern Sydney-based artist Ingrid Bowen has teamed with ceramicist Kerryn Levy to bring together work inspired by the central Australian landscape. Quintessence evokes the colour, form and feel of the artists’ natural surroundings. saintcloche.com
ARTISAN COLLECTION Curious Grace has launched Artisan, featuring handcrafted pieces made in Bosnia. Artisan has customised finishes, including European oak, elm, maple, cherry and natural, in a range comprising a dining table, chairs, sideboard and lighting. curiousgrace.com.au
THE CLASSIC RANGE Adelaide
U TERRAZZO PENDANT Remodern has launched a new terrazzo
Bragg has launched
ceramic offcuts. Available in black, white or pink, the simple design allows
The Classic Range,
terrazzo’s inherent beauty to steal the show. remodern.com.au
collection, including the U Terrazzo Pendant, made of recycled stone and
including bedside, console and coffee tables in raffia and gloss finishes. Bragg has used colours and textures in the new pieces that instil intimacy and calm. braggandco.com.au
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Talent pool The Paviliion is the latest structure built over and for the long term on one stunning site.
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hen former mining executive Andy Plummer and his wife Deirdre ventured out to buy a craftsmanmade, Australian-species timber bed, they came back with much more than that. While talking to north coast-based furniture designer Tony Kenway, Plummer became aware of the scarcity of high quality timber in Australia. So along with the Queensland maple bed, 13 years ago the couple also bought a property in the Byron Bay hinterland – a 92-hectare, native forestry plantation. The site now provides the background to a wonderful suite of buildings
CHROFI architect John Choi worked with the Plummers to create a series of buildings that reflect their place, in their form and the materials used. “We’ve been trying to create buildings where the structure is the
designed by Sydney’s CHROFI architects, created over almost a decade. Commencing with a couple of farm sheds, as according to Plummer “there’s no reason to have an ugly shed”, CHROFI architect John Choi’s ongoing commission has so far evolved into eight diverse buildings. The latest is The Pavilion, the simple, discreet but admirably refined, single-bedroom residence for the Plummers to stay in. Their concrete, stone and timber-appointed digs lie behind the social action of the crooked building: a pool for visitors – especially their nine grandchildren. Like the other buildings on the land, The
Pavilion is, says Choi, “very elemental and distinctly structural. In the form and material – most of the stone came from the land – we’ve been trying to create buildings where the structure is the architecture,” he says. The Pavilion was shortlisted in the World Architecture Awards in 2018. It didn’t win its category. While awards are nice, they’re not the point of the seemingly ever-evolving project Lune de Sang, which is French for “blood moon”. Since the loveliest of contemporary Australian farm sheds went up, CHROFI has added a general manager’s residence and either built or reappointed existing buildings that include a stone house, a log cabin and other guest facilities along with the Pavilion. Choi says while all the structures are different, they heed a common design idiom that reflects “the sense and culture of the place”. Given that some of the trees on the plantation will take 300 years to mature to harvest age, Choi has been keenly mindful “of taking the long-term picture” with the project. “We needed to understand how these structures will age and that their function won’t just be about how they are used today. We needed to make structures that will be meaningful over the long term.” Just as important was that the buildings did not dominate. “We didn’t ever want to burden the site with heroic structure,” he says. While, Choi says, “the main body of the work is now complete”, two more secondary buildings, including a studio for Plummer – also an established art glass maker – and another shed are currently in construction. “But you never know, there might be smaller things to come.” Plummer certainly sees his land-restoring forestry project as a never-ending project. “A lot of people ask us how we can justify the investment here. But every time I go out into the forest, I get the reward,” he says.
architecture,” says Choi.
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APARTMENT LIFE
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St Moritz is a collaboration between leading names Fender Katsalidis, Koichi Takada Architects and David Hicks.
Super-luxe in St Kilda Lavish fails to capture the scope and scale of St Moritz, a groundbreaking creation of 130 high-end apartments.
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ou may need to dust off some seldomused superlatives when it comes to Saint Moritz, a groundbreaking new development that will soon grace St Kilda’s historic Esplanade. Aimed squarely at a well-heeled, international market and already causing a stir among the locals, this aspirational, three-building concept from luxury developer GURNER will deliver 130 apartments with access to the kind of amenity normally associated with New York’s most exclusive Upper East Side addresses. “I believe there is a huge opportunity to appeal to a demographic that, until now, has not had any reason to downsize from their luxury mansions in Toorak, Albert Park or Brighton, because nothing was on the market that could offer the lifestyle they were seeking,” says GURNER founder and director Tim Gurner.
“We believe the luxury end of the market has been waiting for something like this to come along.” Gurner’s position was validated after the company contacted a list of key business names with an invitation to exclusively view the Penthouse Collection prior to its launch in June. “Within a matter of weeks we had dozens of interested parties all vying for one of the five penthouses,” he reports. Claiming a world-first, Saint Moritz will have a personal chauffeur available to residents at a moment’s notice and with no charge. Restaurateur and former Vue de Monde sommelier Rocco Esposito has been engaged as an in-house wine curator and Nicky Dunne, of famed British institution Heywood Hills, will curate the on-site library. Village Cinemas will bring the first private
Gold Class cinema to the development, which will also boast a sports bar with a golf simulator and pool room, along with a wellness centre with pool, sauna, treatment rooms and a gym. Other services will include car washing, dog minding and grooming, housekeeping and laundry services and access to private dining and catering. GURNER appointed Fender Katsalidis as lead architect, with Koichi Takada Architects chosen to design one of the three buildings and interior designer David Hicks, a long-time collaborator, to craft the interiors. Takada said working with Gurner and his team enabled them to challenge each other and push the boundaries of design, taking cues from the bay. Hicks has made sure the calming water views will be matched by serene interiors, using a palette of European marbles and parquetry. There’s also the option for a full design customisation package, which will allow purchasers to work directly with Hicks and Gurner to create interior spaces limited only by the imagination. “Bowling alleys, sauna and steam rooms, cigar rooms, poker rooms, art galleries or perhaps even sound-proofed recording studios – anything is possible,” said Gurner.
SAINT MORITZ Address: 14-16 The Esplanade, St Kilda Architect: Fender Katsalidis, Koichi Takada Architects Developer: GURNER Interior design: David Hicks Landscape designer: Jack Merlo Prices: Two-bed $1.2 million-$4 million, threebed $1.5 million-$20 million, four and five-bed penthouses $20 million-$30 million, sixbed penthouse $30 million Completion: Late 2021 Agent: Deb Wiltshire 0466 513 813 Open for inspection: By appointment at the display suite, 14-16 The Esplanade, St Kilda
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BRONTE JESSICA HROMAS
Life in beachside Bronte is so seductive the locals never want to leave … and who can blame them? B y K ATE FARRE LLY
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Bronte
Nigel Marsh wants to die in Bronte. Not today,
footsteps, changing homes within the suburb.
mind you, or anytime soon, but he is so
“They decide it’s time to get a view, time to get
Sydney 146 Macpherson Street
enamoured of the coastal suburb he’s called
an apartment, time to downsize, but they do it
$5.6 million-$5.9 million
home for 18 years, there’s no place he’d rather be.
all within Bronte,” she says.
The host of award-nominated podcast The Five
reserve and the dramatic Waverley Cemetery,
chief executive of branding agency West 82nd.
Richards says there are plenty of top streets to
He moved from London to Sydney in 2001 and
choose from.
found himself living in Bronte at the suggestion of his relocation service. “It’s only retrospectively that I realise how
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“You have the fabulous position and the there are buyers who prefer the peacefulness on the other side of Bronte. It’s north-facing and it’s
more than 500 yards from that first house. I want
an easy walk to Macpherson Street village cafes.”
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excitement of the Hewlett Street properties but
bloody lucky I am,” Marsh says. “I’ve never moved to die here!”
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With homes wrapping around both the beach
of my Life, Marsh is also an author, speaker and
Favourites include the Bogey Hole cafe, Cafe Salina and Three Blue Ducks.
His children went to Bronte Public, a school he
Cafe heaven
describes as “heavenly”, with its sea views and
Richards says the cafes provide the key meeting
For sale
a community that delivered “wonderful Aussie
points for the local community.
Agent: The Agency Eastern Suburbs,
mates”. Marsh says the centre of his local universe is the Bronte beach pool where he joins swim club every Saturday morning. “I’m lucky enough to be able to walk there,”
“There’s a huge following and sense of loyalty
There is very much a king-of-the-castle vibe at
other,” she says.
this north facing residence. A five-minute walk
As for Marsh, it’s a foregone conclusion that podcast, where personalities chat about their
behind it, instead there’s a valley of green and
favourite film, book, song, possession and place,
if you squint your eyes and choose to be
Marsh would choose Bronte for the latter.
Bethwyn Richards of The Agency Eastern Suburbs says lots of locals follow in Marsh’s
from the beach, the home claims magnificent
if you put him on the other side of the mic for his
he says. “It’s an unusual beach. There’s no road
selective, you could be in the country.”
Bethwyn Richards 0410 322 333
to each one and the clientele gets to know each
elevated views up the coast to Mackenzies Point.
Even the dogs are
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has been arranged in a way that I can live in
captivated by the
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Bronte,” he says.
stunning view at Bronte.
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837SQM
BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME ON MAIN RIVER
11 Waterview Crescent Sorrento One of Sorrento’s last vacant parcel’s of land offers a golden opportunity to design your new waterfront residence. Your new home is located in a quiet cul-de-sac amongst prestige homes and will showcase Main River and skyline views. Sorrento has a village feel with local shops and restaurants. Elite schools, the Gold Coast Turf Club and an array of amenities all underpin the desirability of this location.
VIEWING: Saturday 20 April 10.45am – 11.15am
- Land size 837sqm - Cleared site, with services - 21.5m (approx.) frontage to the Nerang river - Pontoon permissible - Drawings are available for a 5 bedroom residence on the site - Central location for local amenities and lifestyle highlights
CONTACT: Roland Evans 0433 335 507 Laura Langford 0449 993 114
AUCTION: Onsite, Sunday 19 May at 10.00am
Book an appointment to walk on site and take in the all that the land has to offer. The Sellers will consider offers prior to auction.
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It’s been called "peaceful, beautiful and inspiring". Like “finding heaven”.
Soothe the soul and absorb the intoxicating
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94 Minimine Street
Just 6km to Brisbane’s CBD, 94 Minimine Street is elevated with stunning city views and boasts unmatched privacy afforded by its enormous inner city 1783m 2 of secure estate and almost 1000m 2 of superbly constructed Luxury home. This residence has been designed with entertainment at its core and no expense has been spared. From the foundations to the materials to the clever landscaping design; all facets have been created with an emphasis on functionality and enjoyment with minimal time spent on maintenance.
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TENDER Closing Tue 28 May at 5pm INSPECT Contact agent
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