Celebrity gardener Jamie Durie and his luxury resort group Opulus Hotels have bought Paul Bangay’s iconic Stonefields house and garden outside Melbourne.
While Durie will exert creative control over the project, Dominic Lambrinos, who has previously
For Opulus co-founder and long-time hotel financier Dominic Lambrinos, the site was difficult to price, given the expansive and established formal gardens widely regarded as the best work of Australia’s top landscape gardener.“You can’t really value it or compare it to X or Y,” Lambrinos says. “For a large part, we value it as almost being priceless.”
The Table Cape site has since gained DA approval for a series of modern luxury villas designed by architect Silvester Fuller. Lambrinos says adding a third site on Australia’s east coast is ’in the works.”Forbes Global Properties The sitting room with fireplace at Stonefields will be part of a new luxury eco-resort set to open in 2025.“For me, it’s about providing a healthy hotel. We’re not building a health retreat, we’re building a luxury hotel that has the healthiest form of architecture we can possibly build with today’s technology, Durie says, adding “You don’t have to compromise on luxury if you want to tread lightly on the planet.
For Stonefields’ outgoing creator Paul Bangay, the news of Durie’s purchase was well received, extending his “full support” to Opulus’ vision for his home of the last two decades.
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