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MANSION Yelland living the dream
THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN, FEBRUARY 9-10, 2019 theaustralian.com.au/property
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AUSTRALIA
AT HOME TROPHY HOMES AROUND THE NATION
Hard work brought a suburban girl’s Hollywood aspirations to life
JONATHAN CHANCELLOR
You can bank on quality
RODERICK EIME Could you imagine living your life in a five-star resort or Hollywood dream home? Well, that was Sharyn Yelland’s vision as a child growing up in suburban Adelaide. Today that dream is reality as the self-made businesswoman and workaholic entrepreneur sits at a surprisingly minimalist desk fielding flurries of phone calls and emails. The “office� forms part of the 220sq m living area and looks out across an expansive patio, through full-width, floor-to-ceiling windows to a 16m infinity-edge pool with comfy outdoor furniture and book ended by two prehistoric dragon trees. The view is forever. “I grew up in an ordinary suburban house in Clarence Gardens with three girls in a small room,� recalls Yelland, a pioneer of medical laser treatment in Adelaide and the founder of clinical skincare range, Aesthetics Rx. “It was a classic case of ‘lots of love and not much money’ but I always had big dreams and a passion for beautiful things.� Adelaide is an 180-year-old city built by English and German free settlers on a massive plain stretching way past the view from Yelland’s balcony to Gawler in the north and McLaren Vale in the south. The Adelaide Plain is bordered to the east by the ancient Mt Lofty Ranges and the Gulf St Vincent to the west, a span of about 20km. The house, on Travers Drive, Beaumont and dubbed Villa Bella Vista, is perched on the north-facing slope of a 4500sq m block that Yelland and her builder/landscaper/developer husband, Bob Galvin, purchased in 2004 for $1.25 million after considerable debate. “When we first saw the overgrown block it had a frighteningly steep driveway and a very peculiar house,� says Yelland.
“Bob wasn’t keen at first but after some ‘discussion’ we decided to buy.� Yelland is quick to give credit to Galvin who, along with his son and Galvin Group design director Alex Pritchard shared the dream, set to work designing the spectacular property and undertaking the considerable remediation effort required. Yelland has used the interior spaces as a showcase for
her own design consultancy, SY Luxury Living. These internal spaces are not accessed by doors but by cleverly concealed wall-panels, maintaining the smooth internal lines and uncluttered appearance that harks to Stanley Kubrick’s “white room’’ from 2001; or Tony Stark’s Iron Man beach house. “We wanted to create something that was luxurious, stylish, a
Sharyn Yelland at Villa Bella Vista with Baci and Pico PICTURES: ROY VANDERVEGT
classic that will never date in a resort style. And we have captured that,� says Yelland. “We also were very determined to be environmentally conscious so we used the natural terrain to capture the natural breeze and installed our own 66,000-litre water tanks, LED lighting and solar panels, as well as lots of off-street parking for visitors.� One of the biggest construction
such as product launches, photo shoots and even celebrity accommodation. Aspirants can even rent a room at the house via Airbnb for $250 a night. There’s a private spa adjoining the pool and a professional therapist on call to pamper and pommel guests on the massage tables before they adjourn to the spectacular terrace for champagne and hors d’oeuvres. When the couple are not at home, they are travelling, which they do half the year. This leaves plenty of time for Villa Bella Vista, with its three double bedrooms (each with ensuite) to have a life of its own. Yelland uses her time on the road or on the ocean profitably, searching for special items for her interior design clients. The uncluttered living areas contain just a few prized items, such as her customdesigned aluminium chain mail chandelier and a specially-commissioned encaustic (wax) piece by US pop artist Jeff Shaller. Her other cherished possessions are two miniature Chihuahuas, Baci and Pico, who occupy their own space in the laundry with private access, via a tiny doggy door, to the rear courtyard. “This house was always a childhood dream for me. When I was just 14 or 15 all I wanted was a beautiful house that was crisp and clean and white, with lovely views and open spaces — and a convertible Mercedes in the garage!� Villa Bella Vista is clearly Yelland’s dream come true.
efforts was the creation of the flat driveway which opens from remote security gates and is fringed by a magnificent manicured hedge that towers over the wide pebblecrete driveway. Yet Villa Bella Vista is much more than a home. Besides using the huge open-plan house as a private residence and entertainment venue, Yelland is frequently called upon to host corporate events
Macquarie’s head of capital markets Hugh Falcon and wife Jenny are selling their Mornington Peninsula weekender. The 6260sq m Merricks Beach estate includes a fourbedroom homestead set in gardens designed by Fiona Brockhoff. The central kitchen, living and dining space open to outdoor spaces. On one side is a timber deck with alfreso dining, while on the other there’s a swimming pool with sundeck, outdoor shower and courtyard garden. Kay & Burton Flinders agents Tom Barr Smith and Prue McLaughlin have a guide of $3.95m to $4.34m. The couple recently sold Brinsley Place, their historic Richmond home, for $4.476m. They paid $4.8m for the classic four-bedroom 18 months earlier when moving from Toorak.
New agents Naomi Triguboff Travers is selling her cool Toorak home after swapped agents. She’s relisted the Nic Bochsler-designed home with RT Edgar Toorak agents Oliver Booth and Abby Innes, who have a $6.85m to $7.2m guide. The fourbedroom home, with Bochsler’s signature 6m voids and extensive use of glass, has a groundfloor study, home theatre and gym. The living room with open fireplace and filled with Travers’ contemporary art collection extends to a terrace with reflection pond, while the formal dining
Naomi Triguboff Travers’ Toorak home room overlooks 510sq m gardens. It failed to sell late last year through Marcus Chiminello, who was asking $7,295,000. Travers, who was raised in Sydney, is the niece of apartment king Harry Triguboff, worked in New York as an investment banker. She moved back to Australia permanently in 1993 with her husband Jeffrey.
Beachfront opportunity
Sky’s the limit in Seidler classic LISA ALLEN
Fresh from a complete overhaul, the largest apartment in the Harry Seidler-designed The Horizon tower in Sydney’s Darlinghurst has hit the market with agents revealing the whole-floor trophy home to scores of cashed-up local buyers just prior to Christmas. The price guide for the apartment, which will be launched to the open market this week, is $20 million. The luxury accommodation was once owned by developer Bob Ell, who bought it for $6.7m in 2009, and following that the Sutton car dealership family. The 565sq m level 40 apartment, replete with eight car spaces, has never been fully occupied, rather it has been used for entertaining or as a weekender by its successive wealthy owners. The present owners, the Graham family, who have an extensive pedigree in property development, have gutted the apartment, rebuilding it using Melbourne-based Mim Design for the exten-
The Horizon’s new interior sive interior work that includes lavish amounts of Cote d’Azur marble in just about every room. As well, there are French oak floors and $65,000 worth of plush carpet in all five bedrooms, each of which has an ensuite. The apartment also has a completely self-contained unit with bedroom, kitchen, loungeroom, veranda and bathroom that can be accessed independently.
There’s also a wine room and a media room. Core Logic records show the Grahams bought the apartment, which has eight lock-up garages, for a combined $9.83m last year. The selling agents are Knight Frank’s Deborah Cullen and Belgravia Private’s Adam Ross and Trent Iverson. Mim Design said the interiors of level 40 Horizon have inherited a design philosophy that accentuates and pays homage to the forms of Seidler architecture, with particular reference to his return edge and asymmetrical curving. “These details are used to soften the current extremities of the building’s interior while establishing clear lines of vision out to the surrounding sea and city views,� Mim Design said. “A soft palette with accents of brass and warmer timber tones flow throughout the residence elevating it as a luxurious benchmark within the Sydney market.� Expressions of interest in level 40 close on March 26.
Huang scales back Billionaire property developer and political party donor Huang Xiangmo, who is suspected by many of being a Chinese Communist Party influence agent, is redesigning his $3 billion-plus One Circular Quay development arguably the city’s premium apartment project on the old Gold Fields House site. Huang, through his 23-year-old son Jiquan (known as Jimmy), who is now chief executive of the Yuhu Group, have scaled back the number of apartments from 190 to 165. They are still to appoint a builder for the site. Huang hit the headlines in 2017 when it was revealed Yuhu had paid the personal legal bills of former federal senator Sam Dastyari. Huang’s citizenship application was stopped and his permanent residency cancelled by the Home Affairs office on Wednesday. He is unable to re-enter Australia. Lower North Shore agents will be bolting for the listing of Huang’s Bay Street, Mosman, mansion
2017 for $7.1 million. Stewart has a new terrace renovation plan having bought a knockdown terrace in nearby Victoria Street, Potts Point, adding that he needs to spend $3 million on it. The threebathroom Paddington terrace replete with pool and a large terrace will be auctioned next month on March 3.
Full steam ahead EMERALD CITY LISA ALLEN
Prized terrace CBRE’s head of premium sales, Ben Stewart, is asking about $7.7 million for his 84 Paddington Street, Paddington, five-bedroom terrace through The Agency’s Ben Collier. “The house itself has magnificent finishes, a great location, three-car garage, it is north facing, has natural light, and it’s very convenient to lock up and leave,� says Stewart, who bought the substantial contemporary four-level house in March
Dating back to 1886, a fully restored solid brick railway station master’s residence in Tenterfield, eight hours north of Sydney, is on the market with a price guide of $475,000. Vendor Barbara Lewin bought the three-bedroom cottage in December 2011 for $260,000 and has since repaired the floors and walls over a three-year restoration period. The late Victorian cottage now boasts classic chimneys, polished timber floors and insulated decorative plaster ceilings. The property is for sale through Libby Sharpe of Ray White Rural Tenterfield .
Peter Amour, the Hong Kong-based boss of private equity firm AIF Capital, has listed a Sunshine Beach shack. Amour hasn’t got round to knocking down the absolute beachfront home that he paid $2.32 million for in 2002. The 605sq m plot of land is one of the last undeveloped blocks on Arakoon Crescent, which saw a $4.8m sale of a vacant site the same size last year. The sale through Dowling Neylan Real Estate agent Karen Harman comes with approved plans. Amour has been the chief executive of AIF Capital since 2003, having joined Baker & McKenzie in Shanghai in 1984, then Standard Chartered Asia Limited in 1987.
Toorak mansion sold Debbie Dadon, who chairs the Besen Foundation, has sold her Toorak home on Hopetoun Avenue. She shared the five-bedroom home with her husband Albert Dadon, the property developer, philanthropist and musician. Dadon is the daughter of the retail billionaires Marc and Eva Besen. It has been bought by Tangtang Tian from Balwyn. No price has emerged but they’d been asking $13m to $14m for the grand mansion. There are whispers Kay & Burton secured $13,999,999. Set in 1770sq m of walled landscaped gardens, the classically designed two storey home has five bedrooms. jonathan.chancellor@news.com.au
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