Collette Dinnigan buys Watson Bay trophy home from Matthew Csidei
Fashionista Collette Dinnigan and her hotelier husband Bradley Cocks have quietly bought a Watsons Bay home.
The asking price was around $8 million for the four-bedroom home with Blainey North interiors and a 20 metre lap pool.
It has been suggested around $7 million was paid by Dinnigan who is currently working on her collaboration with Anthropologie available in the USA and UK from end of April.
It was bought from Matthew Csidei, who works for James Packer, and his lawyer wife Lauren Roscoe, who are now based in London with their two children.
Its parquetry floors are from an 18th century chateaux in France's Loire Valley.
Its original incarnation was as a Masonic Lodge.
It was marketed as expertly rebuilt from a shell in 2008 as a luxurious classical Beaux-Arts inspired contemporary home with what was arguably Sydney's biggest living room and possibly the largest master bedroom suite in an exclusive harbourside/oceanside village pocket.
It was listed with James McCowan of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty and William Manning of Ballard Property, who also have James Packer's Bondi Beach home for sale.
Last September the Careel Bay, Palm Beach retreat of fashion designer sold for $3.2 million.
The Barrenjoey Road house sold to actor Sophie Lee, wife of Anthony Freedman, chief executive of ad agency Host.
The stylish retro Hamptons-style three-bedroom house on a sandy beach was refurbished after being bought by Dinnigan and Cocks for $3 million in 2010.
They still retain a South Coast retreat.