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SYDNEY INTERIOR DESIGNER NANCY RENZ SNAPPED UP THIS UNIQUE SYDNEY HOME, GIVING IT A BEAUTIFUL RESTORATION SYMPATHETIC TO ITS 196Os ROOTS.
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Designed in 1968 by icon of Australian organic architecture David Hollander,the house sits like massive boulders on a hillside, with its sweeping cement curves nestled under a canopy of gumtrees. Walkthrough the asymmetrical front door and you enter a cosy burrow-like interior, with winding walls, shafts of daylight coming through the skylights, and planter boxes filling the spaces with greenery. “It was nonconformist and experimental, and reflective of its time,” says passionate owner Nancy Renzi of Renzi Design, who signed on the bottom line three days after the home went on the market.

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