When artist couple Susan Hipgrave and Edward Waring mentioned to interior architect Brian Keirnan that they might like to renovate their house, he responded, “Well, I’ve been thinking…” and opened the sketchpad he had with him, as always, whenever he came to dinner at their home in Sydney’s Redfern.
“He immediately started drawing, saying, ‘We’ll make a hole through the dining room to the top floor and put in a big skylight, we’ll get rid of the fireplace and we’ll knock down that big wall over there, which I never liked anyway,’” remembers Waring.
Keirnan, who died last year, aged 67, was renowned for his instinctive response to space and admired for the clarity with which he’d deliver his verdicts. His interiors exude nuance, exist beyond trend, feel somehow as…
