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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

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Lillie Thompson PHOTOGRAPHER With a creative approach “driven by feeling and a pursuit of beauty” Melbourne photographer Lillie Thompson was the ideal person to capture ‘New Sensation’ (page 120), showcasing the transformation of a former Victorian-era boarding house by designer Brahman — “or Brem as we affectionately call him” — Perera. “Being in spaces designed by Brahman is such a sensory experience,” says Thompson, whose love for photography stems from watching her grandfather document his life through his Brownie camera. “My first memory of taking a photo is vivid,” she recalls. “I was 12. My mum had an old Nikon 35mm and we were on the edge of Lake Gunn [in New Zealand] as the sun began to dip. Describing the rule of thirds, Mum taught me how to frame…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Escape with anytime, anywhere

6 ISSUES OF VOGUE LIVING DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR + ACCESS TO VOGUE LIVING DIGITAL EDITION AND APP + ACCESS TO VOGUE VIP, OUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY REWARDS PROGRAM FROM JUNE 17, CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS CAN ACTIVATE VOGUE VIP MEMBERSHIP AT VOGUE.COM.AU/ACTIVATE EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS PRINT & DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR ONLY $65* A YEAR AND BECOME A VOGUE VIP Subscribe to Vogue Living and you will become a member of our Vogue VIP subscriber-only program and be rewarded with exclusive event invitations, special insider access, must-have product offers, gifts from our luxury partners and so much more. Plus, for a limited time, you will receive a bonus Vogue Living tote bag! SCAN TO SUBSCRIBE OR VISIT MAGSONLINE.COM.AU/VOGUELIVING *Offer ends August 18, 2021 and is available for delivery to Australian addresses only. A standard…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Subscriber exclusive offers

From June 17, Vogue Living subscribers will get access to our exclusive rewards program Vogue VIP. HERE’S A TASTE OF OUR CURRENT OFFERS CHANCE TO WIN A SPENCE AND LYDA MISSONI BATH SET WORTH $1,200 + ENJOY 25% OFF SELECTED FULL-PRICED ITEMS FROM THE ICONIC + CHANCE TO WIN A SMEG BREAKFAST SET, WORTH MORE THAN $400 + Explore these exclusive offers and more at voguevip.com.au *Terms and conditions apply. Offer 1: Entries open 9am AEST on June 10, 2021 and close 11.59pm AEST on August 18, 2021. Available to Australian residents 18 years and over only. Limited to one entry per eligible member. Winner determined on August 19, 2021 at 4pm AEST at Nationwide News Pty Ltd, 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010. Winner’s name to be published…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

INTO THE FIRE

There was a time last year when ceramics seemed to be everywhere. It felt like every friend, acquaintance and Hollywood celebrity had suddenly decided to pass the worst of lockdown by turning themselves into amateur ceramicists — with mixed results. But while the pandemic might have led to a spike in those looking for a new hobby, Australia has a thriving community of young, talented ceramicists who have been making a name for themselves long before everything ground to a halt. The following four artists are not only creating extraordinary and interesting work, they are also challenging the perception of what the practice of hand-building and firing clay can be. With their unique perspectives, creative designs and innovative techniques, these ceramic practitioners are removing any doubt that this ancient craft…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

The sweet life

Details, last pages. Like most Melburnians, when Maurice and Jessica Violani moved to Sydney, they had visions of themselves settling close to the coast. But when Jessica fell pregnant and it came time to buy a home, the young couple found themselves gravitating towards one of the most ‘Melbourne’ areas of the Harbour City: Potts Point. “We fell in love with it for its proximity to everything that we value in our lifestyle — great restaurants and cafes, access to the harbour, and walking distance to the Sydney Opera House or CBD,” explains Jessica. In 2019, the pair purchased a 19th-century terrace on one of the neighbourhood’s leafiest streets. It needed a little work — the turquoise splashback was just one element on a long list of things that had…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Pure intuition

Details, last pages. The Paris-based designers Stéphan Bidoux and Julien Villeneuve have been friends for more than a decade. Each has a firm of their own but for more consequential commissions, they prefer to join forces. For the owner of this 170-square-metre pied-à-terre in the French capital, the pair become quite the winning team. “They form an extremely complementary duo,” she enthuses. Bidoux adopts a detailed, rigorous approach, whereas Villeneuve has more exuberant leanings. “We like quite different things and that brings more diversity to our projects,” notes the latter. Their client is a Belgian fashion consultant, who was particularly attracted to the apartment for its lively location on the Right Bank. She previously owned a smaller flat just two streets away. “I really wanted to stay in the district,”…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

HOLIDAY AT HOME

FOR LUXURY HOLIDAY RENTALS around Margaret River, Mandurah, the Swan Valley and the Great Southern region of Western Australia (Albany, Walpole and Denmark). privateproperties.com.au FOR MORE GREEK ISLAND ESCAPES, choose from more than a dozen luxurious Cycladic villas, big on architecture and a sense of community. oliarosproperties.com FOR LUXE RETREATS in the Caribbean, Antigua, Mustique, Mallorca, Italy and France, see the Red Savannah, a recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise last year. redsavannah.com FOR A SPECTACULAR PORTFOLIO of more than 300 exclusive havens in Bali, Lombok, Phuket, Koh Samui, Sri Lanka, Japan, India and the Maldives. elitehavens.com FOR THE CRÈME DE LA CRÈME of statement houses on Airbnb Luxe, from Bali to Costa Rica, the Swiss Alps to Los Angeles. airbnb.com.au/luxury FOR SKI CHALETS in the Austrian Alps, the…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Take the tour

Trust MILEY CYRUS to put her own quirky stamp on her Southern California home. Enlisting the help of mum Tish Cyrus and Tish’s design partner Mat Sanders, the singer infused the six-bedroom dwelling with a mishmash of ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ACCENTS such as ocelot-print wallpaper and neon-bright pieces like an Ettore Sottsass bookcase. Miley Cyrus in the To temper the home’s overall EXUBERANCE, the team lounge room. The glam station was designed created quieter moments in the bathrooms and outdoor by Mat Sanders and inspired by an Ettore areas. To take the tour, visit VOGUELIVING.COM.AU. Sottsass bookcase. Vogue Living @vogueliving VogueLiving @VogueLiving vogueliving.com.au…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

VLoves

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Carla Zampatti

Toward the end of the 1940s, a young girl accompanied her older brother from their farm in Lovero in the northernmost reaches of Italy to an alpine cottage where the family would pass the hottest weeks of the summer. The path was steep and at times treacherous and, usually hoisted onto a pair of shoulders, the girl had never made the journey walking all the way on her own. But the pair had been tasked with readying it for other family members who would arrive a few days later and as they were carrying supplies on their backs, she was determined not to add the complaints of an eight-year old to their already heavy load. “Brava!” exclaimed the brother as they reached the top although the celebration would be short-lived.…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Nat Turnbull

Once upon a time, the term ‘stylist’ was occasionally used as a put-down applying to designers who distracted from their lack of talent with a trickery of props and presentation. But in today’s high-stakes luxury markets, the word, nay, the title, carries the promise of elevating creativity to a runaway or runway commercial success. Indeed, ‘the stylist’ (now deserving of the definite article) has become the power-broking nexus between idea and industry; the one who sets the mood, stage manages the sell and sometimes ends up steering the entire creative direction of a company. Nat Turnbull is one such young fabulist who composes visual tales in the space between the imagined and the real; the space where symbols, shapes, light, colour, trends and cultural values conspire to elicit desire. Where…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Final polish

Details, last pages. It’s not every day that a 1980s Richard Gere movie makes it to the moodboard of a luxury home, but American Gigolo is not just any film, and the owners of Casa Leone in Milan’s chic Porta Romana district are not your average homeowners. Nastia Shershen is a fashion model and stylist while her husband, Valerio Leone, is a fashion designer. And it wasn’t the celebrated Giorgio Armani wardrobe that inspired the couple — it was the focus on the interiors. Hannes Peer, the couple’s architect, designer and decorator on the 180-square-metre, two-bedroom apartment, says that Leone described it to him as “one of his favourite movies — not for the story, but for its aesthetics, how it was filmed, how the light was filtered through these…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

RESTORED FAITH

Details, last pages. So much of the spiel in interiors magazines centres on designers, and rightly so. They are the professionals who manifest society’s wider cultural meanings in material forms whilst articulating our private aspirations and needs. They make beautiful sense of necessary stuff. But sometimes there are revelatory insights afforded by the clients; the ones with a willingness to deep-dive into aestheticism and self, that warrant equal contribution. This sprawling Federation house in Melbourne’s south-east, altered and added to by Kennedy Nolan, served up one such interesting savant: a former clinical psychologist, now a corporate and philanthropic chair who, for the sake of anonymity and the romantic tint of her vision, we shall refer to as Rosie. She is in her sixties, still vital in business, sits between the…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

THE COLLECTOR

Details, last pages. It may be located within one of Barcelona’s great city palaces designed in the late 1940s by Catalan architect Raimon Duran i Reynals but the elegantly curated apartment and home of art collector and gallery-owner Miquel Alzueta, his wife, África Posse, and her son Santiago is infused with a decidedly French atmosphere. “That’s because the Catalan culture was highly inspired by the French,” says Alzueta, “which was later followed by the specific architecture of Barcelona. Duran i Reynals respected the French and neoclassical styles.” The romance of the graceful Gallic details imbedded in the architectural setting befits Alzueta’s very specific passion for predominantly French, mid-century modern design. “Our apartment is still breathing that old sphere — that French feeling — and, in a certain way, the sobriety…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Editor’s letter

This is my final issue before I prepare for the arrival of my second child. It is also an issue where we pay tribute to the icon that is Carla Zampatti, a woman who took me under her wing when I first made the move from Perth to Sydney. I was lucky enough to work with Carla in her business. She was my grandfather’s cousin, and when I finished university with a plan to move east, my father called Carla and asked her to look after me as I pursued a career in fashion publishing. I worked hard for Carla in every aspect of her business: five days in the head offce, weekends spent in her retail stores working the floor. I was lucky to see her in action, to…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

CUTTING EDGE

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Family affair

For Mobilia, the Perth-based company specialising in high-end furniture, lighting, flooring and design, it all comes back to family. The story begins with Tony Fazzari, who founded the brand some 50 years ago after arriving in Australia from Italy. And it continues not only with the Fazzari family but also the extended team, a group connected if not by blood then by a shared passion for design. “The family aspect is something that’s super important to me personally but also to each member of the Mobilia team,” explains Salvatore Fazzari, the company’s founding director. “We actually call it the Mobilia family because it started with the immediate family members but as it’s evolved we’ve managed to keep that DNA — and it’s really testament to the people who make up…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Camille Henrot

Is today tomorrow? It’s the question lending cryptic title and conceptual thread to the mixed media and existential musings of contemporary French artist Camille Henrot, whose back catalogue is soon to display at the National Gallery of Victoria. In light of Covid-19’s continuum of disease and disruption, the artist’s rhetorical ask seems weighted with anxiety and an abdication to the unrelenting sameness of life. But, when viewed through the prism of today’s unprecedented mass protests, it perhaps portends a different future. All interpretation is open until a mutually suitable time must arrange for an interview with the critically feted, forty-something artist who is currently based in Berlin undertaking a residency at Callie’s, the socalled “laboratory for expansive thinking” in a former 19th-century machine factory. Ensconced in one of the complex’s…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

NEW SENSATION

Details, last pages. IF acquainted with the interior artistry of Melbourne designer Brahman Perera, a quick whirl around his website will prime for the mind that seeks to make polyvalent connections across cultures and time. The language is conversational, the captured looks are IFnot disciplined but dusted with a romantic lyricism, and the defining mantra makes it abundantly clear that who you see — Perera, a picture of fashion avant-gardism — is who you get. “Design, where you only deal with me,” the site declares in plain term that Perera later elucidates as the “old-school” notion that the name on the practice door is the one that presides over all design decisions to deliver on beauty and a bond for life. “You are constantly discussing cost, constantly dealing with issues…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Living history

Details, last pages. Alana John never set out to make history when she was looking for a residence in the Perth suburb of Peppermint Grove. In fact, she had originally planned to turn a vacant plot into a brand new home. But her agent suggested she pay a visit to the property next door, an iconic 118-year-old Federation home known as Unalla — and she’s never looked back. “It was actually by accident that I purchased the property,” confirms the designer of that initial visit back in 2015. “I’d driven past it many times, not thinking it was of interest to us because although it was majestic, it had quite an overgrown garden. But the agent invited us in to look at the home and I immediately fell in love…

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Vogue Living|July/August 2021

Privacy BUBBLES

You might have heard that the desire for private everything is on the rise – air travel, boat charters, resort buy-outs and trips led by specialist guides. But the secluded holiday rental is still king. “Nothing is going to stop resilient Australians from travelling, but they’re seeking self-containment, security, and a bubble of family and friends,” says David Goldman of travel advisory firm The Goldman Group. The tempting properties on these pages all have great bones, as well as art and ambience, but they also share a connection to place. “It’s all about experiences and connectivity to nature, hiking, walking and wellness,” adds Goldman. Neo-industrial Bondi Minimalists, modernists and hedonists would all appreciate Bismarck House in Sydney’s Bondi. The postwar, semi-detached home sleeps up to eight guests in four bedrooms…

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