Michael Kirby's Rose Bay Gruzman-designed modernist classic fetches $10 million plus

The former High Court judge Michael Kirby and his partner Johan van Vloten have sold their Rose Bay, Sydney harbourfront home.

Selling within two weeks of its marketing campaign, it fetched more than its recent $10 million guide and Property Observer presumably gleans slightly closer to the initial expectations when listed in 2011 with overly ambitious hopes of $12 million.

It sold through Wayne Yates, of Laing + Simmons Double Bay.

Kirby bought the property on Dumaresq Road for $190,000 in 1976.

The modernist classic home, which has no heritage order, was designed in 1949 by the late architect Neville Gruzman for his aunt Mollie Lapin. He designed the Lapin House before he graduated.

Kirby and van Vloten have indicated they plan to downsize closer to the city.