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LIVING GALLERY

If life imitates art for the owners of this reborn Melbourne penthouse, the world as they know it is surely a dramatic, intriguing and mesmerisingly colourful place. Indeed, the true achievement of this quintessential urban residence is to play consummate host to the owners’ extraordinary personal art collection, rightfully allowing significant works by the likes of Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Bruce Armstrong and Tim Storrier to claim centrestage.

For architect Oliver du Puy, the owners’ moveable feast of gallery-worthy art informed the extensive renovation and refurbishment

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