Potts Point
A new building surrounded by 30’s buildings, the penthouse was bought off-plan with the agreement it would be left as a shell so he could determine his own internal layout. He gave it a European flavour, slightly art deco.
An elegant, central colonnaded corridor with a coffered ceiling and American oak parquet floor runs full length to French doors opening onto an east facing terrace. Different areas are wonderful at different times of day. Both urban and citified, a place of many moods, with doors open in summer, warm in winter.
There are two antique marble fireplaces in the sitting room. Belgian sisal for the floors, armchairs in licorice-and-white striped fabric contrasting with white chenille upholstered chaises. Panelled walls in the sitting room finished with crackle glaze paint are given extra gravitas by the addition of heavy plaster cornices.
Custom made wrought-iron doors open to a wide terrace on the city-view side with a Chinese water trough supported by a stone plinth and an inlaid marble table from India.
Photography Dean Wilmot, Courtesy of Belle magazine