“My home in the Southern Highlands is an enchanting and happy place,” says fashion and interior designer Collette Dinnigan in her book, Bellissima: An Australian-Italian Affair (Simon & Schuster). A visual cornucopia, the book chronicles her peripatetic lifestyle in Australia and Italy, and shares her taste in interiors, gardens, travel and food. While it features the designer’s properties in Sydney, Puglia and Rome, it’s clear her charming farmhouse in Bowral, NSW, is very close to her heart. She shares the sprawling family home with husband Bradley Cocks and her children, Estella and Hunter.
“I immediately fell in love with this old rabbit warren of a homestead, which was built in the 1890s,” she says. After almost four years of renovating, the two-hectare property hosts a six-bedroom, four-bathroom house, self-contained cottages…
