by Kennedy Nolan

This apartment interior can be found in one of the most celebrated apartment buildings in Melbourne, Fairlie, by the venerable modernists Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffiths and Simpson. The brief was for a down-size apartment for a client transitioning from a large house and garden which came with a lifetime of carefully and intelligently collected art and furniture. Our first move was spatial, a desire to break down the cellular plan and introduce enfilades which would reveal the triple aspect of the floor-plate but also acknowledge the way an apartment can be inhabited as a variegated progression through a continuous space.

Materiality, texture, surface and colour draw on the tertiary hues of late modernism and the luxurious intensity of a design movement at its hedonistic, grasscloth is at once contemporary and nostalgic. Each roll is completely unique, exquisitely and subtly textured from a distance and ingeniously intricate up-close. The custom coloured wallpaper in the snug speaks to the modernist palette and creates a bold backdrop for the clients collected pieces.