A glass and steel modernist retreat designed by Robin Boyd has joined Toorak’s prestige market with a guide of $15.9 million to $17 million.
Known for its chandeliers, circular drives and tennis courts, Melbourne’s Toorak has welcomed a markedly different property offering, with the arrival of a modernist glass and metal rainforest retreat, Richardson House.
Designed by esteemed architect Robin Boyd in 1955 and suspended over a lush garden and dry creek bed by an innovative steel bridge, the heritage-protected home is listed by jewellery designerThe property is suspended by a steel bridge among a lush rainforest garden.
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