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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Our top ten homes of 2013 just wouldn't be complete without including one of the incredible mid century homes in WA we have featured over the past year. We've been lucky to feature a number of amazing homes in this area with thanks to our amazing Perth-based contributors Anna Flanders and Angelita Bonetti - thanks for your brilliant work ladies!
This very special family home, which we originally featured in October, belongs to design enthusiasts and avid collectors Mark and Christine Baxter and their daughter Aisha. Their unique modernist home was designed in 1969 by revered Bulgarian architect Iwan Iwanoff, who was responsible for a number of incredible homes in Perth at that time. (Thanks to Anna and Angelita we have featured quite a few of them now!).
Now retired, Mark is an avid collector of all manner of beautiful things, including Australian furniture/chairs, 60 - 70’s art, Scandinavian glass, kokeshi dolls and many other objects which perfectly complement this truly amazing home. 'The house is the perfect gallery to display my collection' says Mark. It's great to see Iwanoff's legacy so perfectly preserved here, and layered with the Baxter's own incredible collection of mid century furniture and design - it couldn't be in better hands!
For many more pics of Mark and Christine's amazing mid century home in WA, do pop over and re-visit the original post here!
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What a beautiful home, amazing chair and art collection it feels warm and inviting. Can I ask where the
Sputnik pots are from?
Mark has to be one of the best / lucky bargain hunters in the country!! I would love to hear if he has any tips for being on the search for these amazing finds.
What a beautiful house. I love the artwork. It’s so nice to see beautiful sculptures in people’s homes. And of course the furniture is so stylish!
Hi, I want to thank everyone who have made such wonderful comments on our home and collection. There were more photos of the bedroom, entry and office, but they could not all be published unfortunately. Anna and Angelita captured the soul of both the house and collection and Lucy and the team of design files presented it beautifully. Thank You. If you want Featherston chairs upholstered contact John at Topstitch upholstery in Midvale. The Fabric is available at Fabric Agencies in Nedlands. The sputnik pots is a name given to these style of pots in the 60′s and were popular here in Western Australia. I don’t know if they were made in other states, but here in WA they are hard to find and weigh a tonne. Thanks you all again from the Baxter Family.