Sydney Home

The house is bifurcated by a sequestered courtyard flanked by generous circulation spaces, here furnished with Room Studio’s Triple bench in reclaimed oak. Pairs of Vincent van Duysen’s Paul sofas and Rodolfo Dordoni’s Andersen daybeds join a custom cocktail table in the formal sitting room. Overlooked by a Peter Stichbury oil on canvas, a custom oak grand piano sits next to the social kitchen. Its customized Piero Lissoni island is faced in Ceppo di Gré, a natural stone that also composes most interior and exterior flooring on the garden level. In the dining room, a Niamh Barry light sculpture hangs above a custom table surrounded by Chi Wing Lo’s Ode chairs. A glass partition hung with wool curtains separates the sitting room from the kitchen, where Jaime Hayon’s Vuleta banquette, Jean-Marie Massaud’s Archibald chairs, and a custom oak table define the breakfast area. The media lounge opens onto the courtyard, which hosts Camille Henrot’s bronze, Story of a Substitute. A swimming pool adjoins the terrace, also Ceppo di Gré. In Sydney, rain screens of translucent onyx clad three sides of a ground-up three-level harborside residence by Fearon Hay with interiors by Penny Hay. The translucency of the facade screens is fully apparent in the second-floor guest bedroom, where plaster surfaces the ceiling and walls, as it does throughout. Vincenzo de Cotiis’s DC1826B mirror hangs above the powder room’s custom sink. A block of Ceppo acts as a hefty balustrade in an upstairs oak-floored corridor overlooking the double-height entry. Extensive glazing allows the courtyard to share the terrace’s enviable view.