Connected to courtyard gardens, the kitchen is open to the living and dining. Pictured: custom silver travertine kitchen island by Lawless & Meyerson, City plus kitchen tap by Brodware, Baroque-style still life from The Vault, Ray sofa by B&B Italia, coffee table by Jess Humpston, custom timber dining table by Lawless & Meyerson, Henry Timi HT112 Cerchia dining chair, Roy Tavolo Diffusa table lamp, Viabizzuno lights and Viabizzuno Ecomini track spotlights, semi-recessed Pop can lights by OTY. Bolt vase by Floris Wubben and woodfired vessel by Sophie Vaidie from Studio Gardner.
A Sydney home is given a significant update by Lawless & Meyerson and MHNDU with the new design respecting and highlighting existing details.
Renovated more than twenty years earlier, Lawless & Meyerson creative director and interior designer Jo Lawless shares that much of the original structure has now been rebuilt. While strongly resembling the former residence, most of the internal walls have been removed or replaced. “Interiors were reconfigured to create generous communal rooms, intimate retreats and seamless connections to garden and pool” Lawless adds.
With expansive views opening the home to harbour light, the kitchen, dining, and living are all situated in the one open area. This main level centres around a relocated kitchen, scullery, and a library “conceived as a shared space for family life” architect and MHNDU founding principal Brian Meyerson says. Here, a large library table accommodates multiple uses and has some of the best views to the pool and terrace.
The primary suite and additional bedrooms are located on the upper floor accessed by a spiral staircase. These are softly detailed and generous rooms that open out to planted balconies. Framing the views and complementing the interiors, steel windows and doors on both levels give the home its distinctive character. The repetition of the curved openings creates spatial rhythm and provides a visual or direct link to courtyard gardens with mature olive trees and an understorey of formal and soft planting combinations designed by Dangar Barin Smith. This connection to the garden with open sightlines extends the experience of those occupying the house throughout the day at any given time.
Existing pieces have been restored, complemented with custom designs. Pictured: Reupholstered Minotti sofas in velvet, travertine coffee tables by Lawless & Meyerson, Pierre Jeanneret armchair, Fragment side table by Jumandie Seys, Pierre Chareau black vintage side table, curtains by Simple Studio, Kapuas abaca rug by International Floorcoverings.
Reinforcing the Mediterranean feel of the existing architecture, terrazzo was used extensively throughout the home including the floors. Lawless & Meyerson replaced them with European oak in a herringbone pattern to introduce warmth and to balance the cooler tones of the clay rendered walls and now open plan main floor. “Terrazzo and limestone long present in the house were reinterpreted in warmer tones, enveloping bathrooms, thresholds, and the pool terrace in a tactile consistency.”
A transformed lower level offers a restorative reset with ice plunge bath clad in terrazzo and timber-lined sauna. The atmosphere here has an immersive quality with a focus on rituals of retreat and wellness and the sensory experiences they create. Additions that continue the material language specified in the design unifying the interiors and providing personal moments of calm within the family residence.
The home includes an ice plunge bath and main en suite finished in Botticino pure terrazzo. Pictured: City plus bath mixer and tapware by Brodware, Studio Gardner vintage Japanese tea pot and vase by Jodie Fried, custom chair by Lawless & Meyerson, Society Limonta towel.
Windows open to the gardens and pool area softening the distinction between inside and out. Pictured: Turqueta sun loungers by Kave Home, custom library table by Lawless & Meyerson.
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