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moving back to New York where he landed the opportunity of working with
world-renowned designers, Sister Parish and Albert Hadley.
It was there that he says he learned his main creative lesson: the importance
“It’s about the structure and getting the architecture of a room correct, the
door and window heights, much earlier on than worrying about what kind
of chair you are going to have,” he says.
A Christmas spent in Sydney in 1990 led to him relocating to Australia and
setting up his own company.
“I thought ‘why not? I think I do have the vision that I could start my own
an amazing evolution to watch Sydney and Australia grow in that time.”

LEFT: At the base of a sweeping staircase stands a Lorrken by Aboriginal artist John
Mawurndjul
RIGHT: A terrace, with original nineteenth-century tiles, opens from the dining
room. The chocolate-coloured outdoor furnishings sit well with Fletcher, the family
Labrador

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