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    Dec 02, 2019 2 minutes

    01 Iconic Modern Australian Houses: 1950–2000 by Karen McCartney (Murdoch Books, 2019)

    wo decades ago, Karen McCartney moved with her family into Bruce Rickard’s 1967 Marshall House in Sydney’s Clontarf. The move kick-started an interest in post-war Australian architecture that has seen McCartney (now one of Australia’s best-known design writers and editors) produce two books on the subject: (2007) and (2011). This encyclopaedic book brings together the best houses from those decades in a new, handsome

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